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let it go
More often than not, I suspect we know what is right and the right thing to do... But we don’t do it. I for example, know that my kids...
pmjmccleave
Feb 20, 20216 min read
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grapefruit juice
Is it healthy to take absolute responsibility for yourself? The obvious answer should of course, be a resounding yes. Where people stop...
pmjmccleave
Sep 25, 20206 min read
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a drop in the ocean..? perhaps. but worth celebrating nonethless
23 July 2020 What a difference a month makes Down to 5.2 from 5.8!! I had been planning this blog in my head for about a week. Having not...
pmjmccleave
Jul 23, 20206 min read
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de ja vu
or I'm quite sure we have all, at one time or another, uttered the immortal line favoured by the mid-thirty-something (and beyond) "if...
pmjmccleave
Jun 4, 20204 min read
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MyelOvid
5.4 (from 4.6) It's not that I don’t care about Covid-19. I do. I don’t need to consider the global impact or individual stories to...
pmjmccleave
May 3, 20203 min read
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lockdown
This morning is the first time in a while that I have felt the inclination to write something. For a couple of reasons. Main one is that...
pmjmccleave
Mar 12, 20203 min read
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road to nowhere
In my opinion, what makes life interesting is the uncertainty. Not knowing what lies ahead. That you have an infinite numbers of choices...
pmjmccleave
Jan 15, 20203 min read
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sorry, not sorry
I started writing this blog as a way to keep you all up to date on the goings on in the world of Peter McCleave and Myeloma. It was never...
pmjmccleave
Dec 3, 20196 min read
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fragile state
It was never going to last but I really had hoped it might last a bit longer than 17 months. That said, I know that if it had held firm...
pmjmccleave
Oct 21, 20194 min read
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Bringing the badge home
Since leaving Nice, the trip has been problem-free and severely lacking in police interaction and indecent proposals. I left Nice at 0500...
pmjmccleave
Sep 14, 20194 min read
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10'000 Donors does the Crumball rally
8th September 2019 So a pattern has emerged these last 3 days where the most eventful part of the day is at the end... Today was a last...
pmjmccleave
Sep 5, 20198 min read
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And now for something a little bit different...
So, only 1 bit of news to report and that is that the paraprotein has nudged slightly up from 2.8 to 3.2 since the last check. Doctors...
pmjmccleave
Aug 29, 20191 min read
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Puppet on a string
A good friend of mine told me a few months back that his son, on the back of registering as a stem cell donor, had been called up as a...
pmjmccleave
Jul 27, 20196 min read
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Near Miss
So, on Monday this week I was going to talk about the latest results, as set out below on my depiction of an awesome red run in the Alps;...
pmjmccleave
Jun 20, 20193 min read
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BREAKING YOUR OWN MOULD CAN ONLY MAKE YOU STRONGER AND MORE CONFIDENT TO REACH HIGHER LEVELS IN Y...
This week, I drafted and delivered a presentation to a police force on the subject set out in the title above. I wanted to share the...
pmjmccleave
May 24, 201917 min read
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you don't have to
It's been 2 cycles of chemo since my last post and in truth, not much has happened, which is a good thing. Paraprotein continues to stay...
pmjmccleave
May 13, 20194 min read
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Whose Life Is it Anyway?
I said in an earlier blog, and probably countless times in person over the last 2 years (I was diagnosed 2 years ago last week. What a...
pmjmccleave
Mar 26, 20193 min read
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Momentum
First things first... This months paraprotein has (SURPRISINGLY) dropped a touch again... 2.7!! Where 2018 was, to be frank, a real pain...
pmjmccleave
Mar 12, 20193 min read
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The Power of 3
What a difference a week makes. Words not required. (especially after a week of McCleave overload!) The following 3 numbers say it all......
pmjmccleave
Feb 16, 20191 min read
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My Boy
It has been said in the past, (probably justifiably so) that I can on occasion be a little un-emotive. When I read this in our local...
pmjmccleave
Feb 1, 20192 min read
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