Cancer Diagnosis

I have had a skin condition all my life (BXO) and have occasionally been warned that it can turn sinister.

Over the years I have had a lot of surgery to enable me to pass water efficiently and to remove 'unhappy' tissue. In the last couple of years I have had the following surgery:

• Initial Biopsy, revealing non-invasive cancerous node.
• Excision of cancer boundary.
• Dynamic sentinel lymph node biopsy (resulting in an infection which put me in hospital for 4 days followed by 2 weeks on injected anti-biotics)

Since then I have been under review and seeing a dermatologist as well as a urologist. Things have recently taken a turn for the worse and a further biopsy of a lump has been diagnosed (last Thursday) as G2 cancer.

I now face a glansectomy so I propose to put a few updates on here in case anyone stumbles across this blog.

Please note it is well after midday on April 1st - this is not a joke. In fact tomorrow (2nd) would be my 35th wedding anniversary. Now that I am separated I face this surgery more or less alone apart from friends who are supporting me.

I will be 60 towards the end of this year. My target is to reach 74, the age at which my father died; I shall then feel not too hard done by!