Thursday 1st August

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A very early start

To Exeter hospital

Up before the dawn

Anxious? Just a little

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Virtual colonoscopy

Along with a CT scan

Quite uncomfortable

Be as quick as you can!

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Starving since Tuesday

No solid food on Wednesday

A noisy, rumbling tum

Keep hunger pangs at bay

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Glad when it’s all over

The anxiousness declines

Heartbeat slowing down

Back to normal times

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Two weeks to wait

Scanxiety strikes again

Radiographer’s report

But I’m not one to complain

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A clinical drugs trial

I’m looked after so well

Malignant melanoma

The fears I try to dispel

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Doing something positive

Seems a good idea to me

Looking after my body

Cancer can do one, you see

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Thinking of you sweetie

Missing you every day

Wishing you were here

With angels you play

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xxxxxx

Driving to Exeter, just after 6:00am

A mellow, warm sky

Monday 24th June

.

An early morning

Colonoscopy

Drive to Exeter

For endoscopy

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Not too exciting

But necessary

Conscious sedation

Pain, momentary

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An alien blob found

Polypectomy

A snip with calipers

Just get out of me!

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Appointment was made

Another C. T.

It’s just to make sure

My bowel is polyp free

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Remembering you

My precious Angel son

xxxxxx