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as a demonstration of how positive I am that all of the bad stuff is now behind us, I am going to wind this blog up over the next few days. Hopefully this will help to make a full stop on the last few months and a good starting point for the next chapter.

Here we go then. This year has been a series of firsts and landmarks for me. Here are a few:

• I have been bald

• I spent a night (11 of them) in hospital 

• I had a tonsil out

• I had 76 injections

• I wrote a blog

• I cried a lot

• I didn't eat anything for 4 months

• I realised how lucky I am to have a fantastic wife, fantastic children, fantastic family and fantastic friends

• I was depressed

• I had an operation (3) 

• I had a feeding tube

• I watched a lot of telly

• I missed the school run for the first time in 10 years

• I went in an ambulance

• I was treated in a&e

• I feinted a few times

• I had chemotherapy

• I had 18 blood tests

• I had 30 radiotherapy sessions in 44 days

• I wore jogging bottoms in public

• I didn't do much (any) work

• I missed consecutive Stoke home games for the first time since 1979

• I wore slippers

more soon.