This is an account of my life from July 2007 to June 2009 during which time I lived with bowel cancer pneumonia and lung cancer. This resulted in surgery to remove most of my left lung six months' chemotherapy a major stoma reversal operation and eight stricture dilatation operations with radiography. Whatever else it is though this is decidedly not a book about illness. Rather it is a celebration of living: an honest and above all positive record of life lived to the full despite setbacks.