Balancing personal and professional ambition with a NED (no evidence of disease) status is proving to be tougher than I expected, and it has affected a larger part of my life than I expected.

I spend a lot of time explaining my current health status, so I thought I’d devote a bit of time explaining it as crisply as possible here.

Several months ago, mid treatment, I came up with a list of non cancer projects to distract me. One of them was to record a song for my kids. Well, months later, I can finally tick that particular project off the list.

Nothing much to report, but people are starting to write to me checking on my health status because I’ve been so quiet. Felt like a little update was required.

Got my first surveillance scan results and they were good. Unfortunately many people around the world - some friends - have not been getting such good results. I also know I am just at the beginning of the long and dangerous road of recurrence. Cancer just sucks.

Well the time has come to, as they say, get on with things. I’m gearing up to start back at work on July 1st, not without some trepidation.

I’ve been very lucky on financial front with respect to my cancer journey, but the monetary cost of cancer is still pretty high. It’s a question I often get so I thought I’d share some of the details here.

After 10 months of cancer treatment a good PET scan has meant an end, for now. Now my doctors are telling me to just “do what I normally do” i.e. get back to normal life…and come back to see them for another scan in 6 months. Which such a big cloud hanging over you, how do you just “get back to normal”.

There are so many people to thank. Too many in fact. However just before I complete my last major surgery in my 1st line treatment journey I thought it was a good time to pause and thank a few key people.

I am digesting the results of my first post first line treatment PET / CT scan, and in the process trying to understand what 'surviving' stage 4 cancer really means.