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These are memoirs and other books I've read in the last three years or so. Any favourites? Pet hates? What's missing? Illness Memoirs Illness: The cry of the flesh Havi Carel Time of my life Joel Nathan Bad Hair Days Pamela Bone Inga Clendinnen Tiger's Eye John Diamond C: Because cowards get cancer too Jean-Dominique Bauby The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Joan Didion The year of magical thinking Simone de Beauvoir

See original post and pics at: http://benbbrave.blogspot.com/2011/06/short-term-bum.html I learnt something in high-school biology that has shaped all my subsequent thinking about the human body. It was this: the body can be thought of, quite simply, as a series of bags and tunnels. The biggest of the tunnels runs right through your body, it starts at your mouth and ends at your bot-bot.

My husband has been newly diagnosed with Liver Cancer. It is 4 weeks ago we saw the Oncologist for a diagnosis, two weeks ago the case went before the Oncology team and another two weeks before we see the Oncologist again to discuss treatment options. Does anyone know if this time delay is usual?

Hi, My mum "Mili" a beautiful healthy women has been diagnosed with advanced local pancreatic cancer, which was inoperable when attempting a Whipples as the tumor in the head of the pancreas has involved itself with the portal vein & some other vessels. We are shocked with this news as we really thought it was operable & contained. Currently my darling mother Mili is in hospital recovering from surgery and is doing great guns. Her eating is of a concern, as she isn't taking in much which we are told is due to the bypass surgery they did adding the metal stent.

Hello all, Has anyone had reconstructive surgery for their palate and lip? I am weighing up pros and cons and would appreciate some feedback.

See original (and pictures) at http://benbbrave.blogspot.com/2011/06/pooology.html I have been comfortable with poo ever since I realised that playing with it was a big part of a zoologist's life. You can tell a lot from animal poo. Scientists use poo to work out where an animal has been, what time it was there, what it recently ate, if it is ready to mate, has mated, or is pregnant, if it is stressed, if it's a male or female, how old it is, and how related it is to the animal next door.