John Burke's a-Musings

Sunday 13 July 2025. After all the drama of the past few days, yesterday was a sit down in front of the telly and catch up on such gems as S...

Thursday 10 July 2025. So yesterday was my first full day at home. I had so much to do: seemingly a thousand boxes of pills to sort out and ...

Tuesday 8 July 2025. It's going to be a bit of an emotional roller coaster again, sorry but bare with me... It started first thing in ...

Monday 7 July 2025 - the bits missing from the last entry, unless they contradict anything in which case who knows when I'm writing abou...

Sunday 6 July 2025. Six o'clock in the morning. First pill arrived half an hour ago. Another 11 due with breakfast and then sporadicall...

Saturday 5 July 2025. It's weekend. Usually that means fewer staff but yesterday they were running on low numbers anyway. Our usual tabl...

Wednesday 2 July 2025. After all the weather forecasts here yesterday saying how nice it would be it was a day of white skies and a bit of r...

Sunday, 29 June 2025. Weekend so the physios weren't taking me off doing any exercises to help me get walking again. However instead of ...

A series of articles chronicling my personal experience with cancer and leg ulcers from 2022 onwards. The intention is mainly to inform and...

Saturday, 28 June 2025. Yesterday was a dozy sort of day. I was awoken early for tests and meds and was taken down to the breakfast club by...

Tuesday, 24 June 2025. I finished my last article at a point where I was still at the breakfast table so we carry on from that same day for...

18 June 2025. I had moved from Blackpool's hospital to what was described to me as a "respite home" . I found such a place on...

10 June 2025. Quite a sad day for me. As described in my previous post, one of the few people in the ward I could talk to died in the wee ...