Well, I’m not sure how to write this one.You all know I’ve had a pretty rough start to the year. In the past month or more however, the pain has really ramped up. This, along with the dodgy arse explosions and absolutely no energy, meant my scan was brought forward and treatment was delayed. A week later a very frank discussion was had with my lead oncologist. We all know that my cancer is incurable, however we’ve never put a time frame on that. Very much a ‘treat it till we can’t’ scenario. This time was different. Although the scans show the disease as stable, my blood work and progression of symptoms show a different story. My cancer is weird, and doesn’t behave like ‘normal’ cancer. Bowel cancer likes to move to other organs, mine hasn’t done that. This bastard tumour has been unpredictable from the get go. So with trepidation I asked 12 months? I was answered with a sad shake of the head and the answer “probably less”. Maybe 6-12 months. To be honest we were expecting this kind of...