Waiting for the Bell: Approaching the First Big Milestone — Part One
Before Chemotherapy BeginsBy Alex
Length1h 31m
About this audiobook
Before cancer became the centre of Alex Ryan’s life, it arrived as a series of small disruptions: symptoms, a screening kit in the post and an appointment that changed the shape of everything. Book One, Part One of Waiting for the Bell follows Alex from life aboard his Dutch barge through investigation, a diagnosis of rectal cancer with liver metastases, an ileostomy and the making of a chemotherapy plan. The barge still needs heating, work continues, family and friends remain themselves, and the ileostomy acquires an unsuitable name. Written as events were unfolding, this candid account holds fear, uncertainty, ordinary life and dry British humour together. It is lived experience rather than medical advice, told without the comfort of a known ending. Part One ends just before chemotherapy begins.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, Health and Wellness
Length1 hr 31 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 23, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
4Chapter 3: Lord Voldemort Moves In
2Chapter 1: Something Wasn't Right
5Chapter 4: There Is a Plan
3Chapter 2: Probable, Then Confirmed
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