best/worst

best: got my parents gaff for 3 weeks
worst: skint till weekend.

worst: best man/mate has just received the results of an MRI which shows he has liver cancer.

a brother does good, a mate does trerrible. right after each other.
the internet can be so good and then so bad in seconds.

puts mine in to perspective.

HMRC have just taken 6K in tax in one go as the gf was on a BR code by mistake for a few months - unable to pay bills in full and hols in 4 weeks unlikely - prob lose flight money. Didn't think they are supposed to do this sort of thing as a new code of 60T was issued this month.

managed to get my iPhone on it's way from a friendly Sicilian at an airport

Got off the phone to him a little while ago and he's got two biopsies in the next couple of days to confirm the diagnosis and decide on the treatment. Just hoping the original MRI was mistaken.

Best: Met a solid 9/10 19 yo bird through a fried of a friend last night, got on really well danced,pulled etc. She said she lives in a flat on her own and I can come visit next weekend thought there must be a catch somewhere...

Worst: she lives 100 miles away and has a 2 year old kid
Wha do fuk?

How this affects your friend will depend on the staging of the cancer (how far it has spread) and its grade (how aggressive it is), which will be determined by the biopsies. Being at this stage of treatment is very hard because you don't know what is going happen: you could just need to whip out the affected bit, or chemo or whatever might be required. Once the results are in and he knows where he stands he'll feel a lot better because a degree of certainty has been restored.

The thing about cancer treatment in general is, having been diagnosed somehow you get assigned a cancer centre based on where you live, ie there's a lot of chance involved. It might be the case that you end up being treated at a really boss place, but there is a lot of regional variation in quality of cancer care. Knowing nothing about your mate's case it's hard to speculate, but there's no harm, and potentially a lot of benefit, in getting a referral for a second opinion to another (ideally better if possible...but which are the better hospitals? generally bigger is better I guess) cancer centre, for example in London I'd recommend UCH or Royal Marsden (don't really know for liver cancer though). Of course this is easier said than done, consultants can be quite intimidating and won't offer a 2nd opinion up front, it requires balls to ask for one. Your mate could have the most open and shut easy peasy liver cancer ever and a 2nd opinion could be obviously a waste of time. On the other hand if there's any ambiguity about the best treatment it could be the best decision he ever made. There's not much one can personally do to affect your cancer treatment positively, but playing the health system effectively can make all the difference.

Also check this: http://www.macmillan.org.uk/Cancerinformation/Cancertypes/Liver/Treatinglivercancer/Biologicaltherapies.aspx

best: just got back from six months travelling. cool seeing friends and family again

worst: just got back from six months of travelling. realisation that i need to get a job again

did the states, a bit of canada, new zealand, austraia and thailand. loved every minute.

proper shit being back though. just going to get a job for six months or so and look to go away again early next year i reckon. maybe australia on a working visa. proper comedown being back in my small little town!