
I started my “sometimes you gotta climb that hill” series/campaign some years so. I used it as a metaphor based on my own experience of actually climbing up hills. There is no way I could have done some of the physical stuff I can do now in the first couple of years after diagnosis – […]

What are Duodenal Neuroendocrine Neoplasms (dNEN)? The duodenum is technically part of the small intestine, and you can find that in most anatomy-based descriptions. One of the research references I used was titled “Somewhere between the pancreas and the small intestine” and in the case of Duodenal NENs (dNENs), I can understand why they adopted […]

Let me start by saying that Neuroendocrine Cancer awareness is in a better place than it was when I was diagnosed in 2010. But it should be further forward, much further forward. In some areas, we appear to be going backwards. It’s not where it should be because some people, some organisations (including some so-called […]

Summary May produced the best statistics in 2023, mainly due to your support for my blog post on Maria Menounos whose announcement headlined as “Pancreatic Cancer” caused a storm within the Neuroendocrine Cancer community. Below, I’ll list the top performing blog posts in May and no secret which one is listed first. Repeat after me: […]

Those who follow my Facebook page Ronny Allan may remember my cycling faux pas in April causing me to bruise or fracture a rib (here if you missed it). I was told it may take up to 6 weeks to heal, it took 5. During that painful period, I looked ahead and wondered how I […]
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I can remeber a ghost on the Queen Mary Long Beach, Blazing tooth ache from hell, drinking white russian with a gay red Indian and his cowboy mate, running a marathon to retrieve my camera I left in the bog, thrown out of bar for whistling at the bar maid and having a fight with a stupid Chinese tram driver in Frisco, managed to delete 6 days of classic pictures from my memory card while being gassed from fumes of an indoor sewage interceptor tank in the abandoned Hotel Amagosa, having a great jive in Peggy Sue’s dinner after making a mistake asking her “have you got pie”? only just mention only few non dull moments on holiday with Gerry Cox
That is one scary photograph. Please don’t show it to your grandchildren, they won’t sleep in weeks. I thought Gerry had been in the Royal Navy and then went back into uniform when he left as a ‘Traffic Warden’!