Ovarian Cancer Raising Awareness

  • Three month check

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    The three month check is due on Friday and I have had my blood taken in preparation.  If I do not get the all clear I will be devastated.  Not so much from the treatment point of view but it putting my life on hold.  Already we want to do things but have to wait the results "just in case".  Last year was a constant wait as we went from one medical appointment to the next.  Don't know if it is just me but I would…

  • Boots to do Chemotherapy

    FormerMember
    FormerMember
    I read with absolute incredibility that Boots are going to do our chemo.  No I have not been drinking.  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1349687/NHS-reform-Cancer-sufferers-given-chemotherapy-Boots-branches.html
     
    Why were we not told about this when Paul Burstow MP visited Macmillan?  That would have been an important discussion.
     
    Boots is nearer than the hospital – it is the only thing I can find in its favour…
  • Ovarian Cancer - Why Didn't the Penny Drop?

    FormerMember
    FormerMember
    Despite ovarian cancer being the No.1 killer of the female cancers I knew absolutely nothing about the symptoms. I had never even heard of ovarian cancer.
     

    OVARIAN CANCER SYMPTOMS:   The symptoms range from bloated stomach, feeling full, frequent need to urinate and leakage, runs or constipation, pain in back, stomach or leg.  (I had what I thought was cramps on the top of my foot but none in my stomach); unusual…

  • FURIOUS - ANSWERS ON A POSTCARD!

    FormerMember
    FormerMember
    The hospital have written to me  "there was no large ovarian mass at the time of the first two examinations".  I beg to strongly differ!
    Photo A – Taken January 2009 before my examination in May 2009.
     
     
    Photo B – Taken March 2011 – same trousers.!!  I can even put two hands inside them.
     
    So if it wasn’t a large ovarian mass – what was it!!!!  I didnt lose weight during chemo…