My experience with Neuroendocrine Cancer

I have been on a journey with Neuroendocrine Cancer since around 1999 and have decided to try and document my experiences both physical and spiritual, as a record for myself, but hopefully also as an encouragement to others, who may be facing something similar. I would like to pay tribute to the many people who have prayed […]

As a blood donor for many years I arrived (I think sometime in 1999), to give my ‘pint’ as usual, only to be told that my iron levels were so low that it would not be possible to take blood from me; armed with a packet of iron tablets I went to my own GP who arranged blood and […]

I often tell people that God works even through Google – that’s my experience. Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. (Matthew 7:7) For the first months of 2014 I spent time finding out as much as I could about Carcinoid […]

Heal me, Lord, and I will be healed; save me and I will be saved, for you are the one I praise. (Jeremiah 17:14) After an MRI scan and careful health examination to ensure I was well enough, in September 2014 I booked into Donald Gordon Medical Centre, a private training hospital in Johannesburg, for the […]

Following my second liver operation, I continued with a Sandostatin injection every 28 days, and regular meetings with my Oncologist. I returned to Donald Gordon in May 2015 for an MRI and a follow-up discussion with Professor Botha. The MRI showed that the liver had grown in size and was completely free of tumours; on […]

For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. (2 Corinthians 4:17) In South Africa, March is the start of Autumn so we travelled to Johannesburg with little in the way of warm clothes expecting to be there a maximum of three weeks; little did we know that […]

Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.                      (Proverbs 3: 5–6) On my last visit to Sister Jane as an outpatient at Donald Gordon Medical Centre, she noticed that there was redness around the […]

Back home we gradually returned to normal life, although I continued having to change dressings twice a day. Fluid continued to drain from holes which opened including at one stage my navel The wound specialists I visited in Durban were helpful, and confirmed Sister Jane’s belief that what was coming out were bits of mesh […]

“Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.” (Deuteronomy 31:6) So, on 16th October 2016, at around 10am, I booked into Umhlanga Hospital for my first nuclear treatment. I was shown to a private […]

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. (Romans 15:13) At our meeting with Prof Botha in October 2017, he examined my abdomen and said that he would certainly arrange to repair […]