Thursday, 12 November 2015

Cancer and Me: in isis-k's biggest adventure yet, she realises she is not immortal

Cheated!
From an early age, isis-k realised that life had a nasty habit of throwing googlies at unsuspecting bystanders.
After several years of being bullied at school, she kind of made it her mission to try and offend as few people and tread on as few toes as possible. 

Which is why
a) Her career, though interesting, never hit stratespheric and
b) She kept several pobbles as pets 



She and the weird sisters had many adventures battling the Evil Empress who ruled over a certain area of White City; while avoiding being sunk by the well-known shipping hazard in the Bermuda Triangle : Barry Manilow's nose.


Now I suspect she faces her biggest battle yet. All the tests the lovely doctors have carried out point to a diagnosis which - to quote the original big brother - is doubleplusungood.

No one wants to be told they have Cancer, but that's apparently not a choice I have. The googly has been bowled.

Strange how you meet so many acts of kindness at a time like this, from a London Cabbie being sympathetic when I threw up all over his nice clean Taxi (ok I still had to pay to have it valeted but...he told me to 'be lucky') to all the wonderful friends and neighbours who've done everything from Reflexology to cooking ready meals.

And of course: My Family.
You are wonderful and every day I am more proud.

Prognosis ? Profoundly pessimistic, but I ain't going down without a fight. 

As the truly great Dylan Thomas put it :
'do not go gentle into that good night
Rage rage against the dying of the light'

Peace (and of course - Love)