THE CAMBO CANCER CHRONICLE

800 words / 4 minute read As some readers may be aware, I did myself a mischief earlier in the year which resulted in my now infamous (in Sinville circles at least) “Gammy Hand”. The cause of the condition was a compressed nerve in my tricep, which resulted in a (slightly scary sounding) "neuropraxic injury" - also known by the (less scary sounding but probably quite politically incorrect) term ”Saturday Night Palsy”. Before I tell the sorry tale, first let me say: “fear not, since I am on the mend!”, slower than I hoped but things are improving every day. Don't get me wrong, I would like to be a fully-functioning human being once more but I am philosophical about the whole thing, as it was the catalyst which led me to bring forward my trip to the UK by two months. This in turn resulted in my other issues being resolved much quicker than they may otherwise have been – I shall add more info on that side of things in due course, but first you are proba...

150 words / 30 second read Because this place truly is a time vortex, setting goals are one way I can try and stop just drifting along. This time I thought I'd take it one stage further and publish the list online in my shiny new blog, why not? So here goes.... SURVIVAL GOALS See my friend wearing her mortarboard graduation hat - December 2018  Survive long enough to see what life is like after Brexit - March 2019  IMMEDIATE GOAL Get this blog going and updated regularly to share my ongoing work on the Cancer Odyssey book  END OF YEAR GOALS Have a 100,000 word first draft Cancer Odyssey manuscript complete  Have produced a track of sufficient quality to be "sent off for rejection" to a label  Complete the year having read 100 books (so roughly averaging 2 a week)  BONUS GOAL Have completed a 10,000 word work of fiction