I guess everyone may pretty much have given up reading the diary now.

It's a month since I last said anything here, in a way I miss the Diary, but making entries in it every day is something I don't have to do anymore.

For anyone still hungry for news and who didn't already know, chemo has finished and I have now been out of Hospital for nearly 5 months. I'll never know if that's me cured forever, only that I'm clear for now. I'll just have to change my life to suit that.

I feel great. I still don't have all my strength and stamina - it's taking a long time but I never really had any idea of when I'd be back fully.

I've tried not to do too much reflecting, but I'd like to say thanks. I'm going to get all soppy, perhaps because I don't think anyone is really paying much attention but I owe everyone I know and many many people that I don't, huge debt of love and support that I will never be able to repay. In a way I hope I never have to.

I can't put it into words very well, but here are some:

Thanks to the people who work at Monklands Hospital. I'm still alive. Medically that probably wouldn't be the case if they hadn't been around.

Thanks for all the stuff people did for me and each other that I don't know about.

Thanks to everyone who ever came to see me in Hospital - even if I was in a bad mood.

Thanks to everyone who sent invisible but wholly vital good vibes from all over the world.

Thanks to everyone for emails.

Thanks to everyone who sent me a card - sorry I didn't reply to any of them

Thanks to Mr IBM, who invented the Laptop, Mr Sennheiser who invented god's own headphones, Mr DVD, Mr iPod and the 3G Datacard. If Cancer hadn't killed me, without these things I think I would have died of Hospital instead.

2007 - probably the most interesting year of my life so far, partly because I spent so much of it in very boring circumstances.

By the time I die of whatever - I intend to have several rather more interesting years.