Waiting for the Bell: Approaching the First Big Milestone — Part Two
Chemotherapy BeginsBy Alexander Ryan
Length1h 5m
About this audiobook
In Part Two of Waiting for the Bell, chemotherapy stops being a date in the diary and becomes lived experience. Alex enters the day centre for his first treatment, discovers an unexpected tendency to talk without pause, and returns home with a chemo bottle and a new set of rules for life aboard a steel Dutch barge.
As the cycles continue, the side-effect leaflet becomes personal: cold sensitivity, mouth ulcers, hair loss, falling blood counts and the exhausting work of keeping weight on. Yet ordinary life refuses to step aside. Work, family, George’s visit, a coffee shop taking shape in Thailand, drone flights and the maintenance of Cornelia Anna continue around treatment. Candid, reflective and dryly funny, this instalment ends with a necessary pause—and the plan bending without breaking.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, Health and Wellness
Length1 hr 5 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 10, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 5: Apparently I Talk Now
2Chapter 6: The Side-Effect List Becomes Personal
3Chapter 7: Keeping the System Running
4Chapter 8: A Necessary Pause
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