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  • Forum Post: Morris and Me

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    Posted 2 months ago
    I am supporting my friend who has just completed chemo 5. We are going to put our email and text exchanges into a fundraising book for Macmillan. Everyone approaches adversity in a different way, but my friend (cancer) and I (post stroke) approach it with humour. There's more information and extracts...

  • Forum Post: Re: Transition from T3 to T4

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    Posted 2 months ago
    Hi Mazzamo Gosh what a time of it your having and you must feel all over the place. I have just been on T4 now 2 and half weeks and it seems to be going ok. I had thyrogen too for my scans there in Jan, so never came off the T3 like yourself. I think that has made the swap to T4 so much easier...

  • Forum Post: Re: New Diagnosis

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    Posted 2 months ago
    Hi Munky Boy Sorry you have to join us here, but welcome and come along anytime with your questions etc. I found out within a week of tests at the start, so it can be a bit of roller coaster. You can read my profile and see that even though I have been through alot, the outlook is great and now...

  • Forum Post: Cancer patients and the feeling of 'Otherness'

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    Posted 3 months ago
    My name is Alex Reitemeier, I'm a psychology student at Nottingham Trent University doing some research into cancer. I want to find out if other people's reactions to a person's cancer shapes and changes their self-perception. I have emailed and received permission form the Macmillan...

  • Forum Post: Re: losing your hair

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    Posted 3 months ago
    Hi Lorijade My daughter aged 21 was diagnosed with lymphoblastic leukemia in Dec. she went straight into hospital and started Chemo she was told she would lose all her hair and probably become infertile too, 3 weeks into her treatment it started falling out (she had long brown hair) but she has always...

  • Forum Post: Re: Feeling really poorly after RAI last week- help!

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    Posted 3 months ago
    Hi Powergrrl Sorry your not feeling great after RAI. Most people never feel anything having it, but I was really sick too. The morning after the capsule I was wrenching so bad I could hardly breathe and felt nauseous and had some vomiting the 3 days I was in. When I got home I had a wee bit of wrenching...

  • Forum Post: Help raise awareness.

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    Posted 4 months ago
    Hello lovely ladies. My name is Laura. I'm 22 and I was diagnosed with breast cancer in November. I have started writing a blog. Today I was brave enough to share it with my friends. It seems to be getting lots of positive feedback. Please give it a read. It may help with a few things or at...

  • Forum Post: Re: University and Cancer

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    Posted 4 months ago
    Hi Kat, I was diagnosed 4 weeks into my first year on University. I thought I could keep up but with having keeping in the hospital and having 9 months ahead of it I knew the best thing to do was to take a year out and start again. This was my personal decision on the subject but I wanted to just...

  • Forum Post: feeling useless

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    Posted 4 months ago
    Hi guys im new to the site so a bit lost at mo, my partner is 48 and was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in August after having problems eating. He had tail of pancreas removed in November and they also removed spleen as it was in way. During op they noticed lymph nodes were affected so removed 21 and...

  • Forum Post: Re: Anxious about surgery next week

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    Posted 4 months ago
    Hi Gems2 All the best for next week. What type of neck dissection are you having? I was very anxious about surgery, it really consumed me in the end and I had to phone my doctor, he give me Diazepam for the last few days leading up to the surgery. This helped me loads and just one or two tablets...

  • Forum Post: I thought this week would be easier.

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    Posted 4 months ago
    Hi All Hope everyone is doing well. I am just having a wee down moment. I have my post RAI scans and blood tests this Friday and I thought this week would be easier to deal with. Its so much more emotional than I thought. I got thyrogen injections the last two days so I didn't have to come...

  • Forum Post: Booking a holiday

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    Posted 4 months ago
    Hi everyone i have a random question.After missing several holidays with the kids i decided this year would be a decent cornish holiday when the kids exams are over (which willl be around £800 alot to us) and needs to be booked before they get snapped up as usual.Then it occurred to me Dads cancer...

  • Forum Post: Re: sclc

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    Posted 4 months ago
    Bless You xxMy dad passed away on 29 aug 2012 same cancer small cell lung cancer, he was only diagnosed on jan 31st 2012xx

  • Blog Post: it's been two weeks...

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    Posted 5 months ago
    since my wonderful Uncle lost his battle with cancer. He was 43 years old and father to 2 lovely boys aged: 11 and 14. My uncle was determined to make every second count. This video I created, is about his last 13 months with us, and was shown at his life celebration, please watch the video and find...

  • Blog Post: Saturday 1st December

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    Posted 5 months ago
    It's been a tiring and eventful few days since my last post. On Thursday, I had my PICC line fitted. As a real needle phobic, myself and my daughter were amazed at how calm I stayed throughout the whole procedure! I am convinced that the hypnotherapy session I had on Monday afternoon was the reason...

  • Blog Post: Wednesday 28th November, 2012

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    Posted 5 months ago
    Today is a much needed day of rest and I will not be changing out of my PJ's! It's also been a belated opportunity to create my blog!! I've been tying up a few loose ends this week, via emails and telephone calls, prior to the start of my treatment. I will also do an online shop today. I...

  • Blog Post: Tuesday 27th November 2012

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    Posted 5 months ago
    This was my first outpatient visit at the Velindre Cancer Hospital to have bloods taken and my oncology appointment. It felt surreal sat in the waiting area surrounded by cancer patients. I was there nearly two hours and passed the time thinking, reading a newspaper and even a bit wig spotting! I wanted...

  • Blog Post: Where it all began ..........

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    Posted 5 months ago
    As I'm a few months down the road on my cancer journey, I will fill in the gaps prior to today. I so wish that I had started this earlier as my friends suggested! I am 54 years young, with three grown up children. On Monday 3rd September 2012, I visited my GP, with concerns about a breast...

  • Blog Post: Work and cancer webchat – Friday 30 November

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    Posted 5 months ago
    Whether you’re living with cancer or supporting someone who is, the impact on your working life can be really serious. You might need to take time off, reduce your hours or work more flexibly – and you could be worried about earning less money or being treated unfairly by your employer...

  • Blog Post: Groundhog Day

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    Posted 6 months ago
    The Exe estuary can be fairly dismal in autumn! Sorry about the gap between posts . I'm fine, but things have shifted on from "Wow, they're on the case!" to the prospect of a long samey Groundhog Day winter with a three-week cycle, looking at my chemotherapy tablet schedule. I've...

  • Blog Post: *taps* is this thing on?!?! Oh HAI!

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    Posted 7 months ago
    Yes. I'm a bit rubbish. Yes I'm a bit crap. I've been away for far too long. And for that i apologise. I will gracefully accept being whacked about the head with a pillow and stuffed into a tub full of baked beans. It's been a year folks. A whole year. And in that time I have...

  • Blog Post: The fear of the unknown.

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    Posted 7 months ago
    I am so very tired of spending days terrified of what will happen in the future. More exhausting and painful than any chemotherapy, is that uncertainty that seems to come hand in hand after being diagnosed with cancer, I have suffered at the hands of ill inspected xrays, and have paid the price for said...

  • Blog Post: First time chemo - an intravenous banquet

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    Posted 7 months ago
    Swanney: Would sir care for a starter? Some garlic bread perhaps? Renton: No, thank you. I'll proceed directly to the intravenous injection of hard drugs, please. I couldn't help thinking of this scene from Trainspotting today; it's been a veritable banquet of intravenous drugs, the main...

  • Blog Post: Friends and others

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    Posted 7 months ago
    I'm sure this is a universal experience , but people's reactions to hearing of my illness have been highly varied, some predictable, and some surprising (though not always in a good way). I'm an atheist, but a number of people I know to be religious are praying for me: in the conventional...

  • Blog Post: Seeing the enemy

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    Posted 7 months ago
    Today I had an ENT appointment - they're still looking for a primary tumour, and had a glance at my throat with a trans-nasal endoscope (tickly and eye-watering, but painless - nothing like that "Euarrrgh!" moment when Arnold Schwarzenegger puts the probe in his nose in Total Recall )....

  • Blog Post: Family visit

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    Posted 7 months ago
    As further tests revealed the prognosis to be more serious, I revised my original plan not to tell my parents about my illness for now, and Irene and I went for a flying visit to see them. As they live on a European island, it was a pretty lengthy trip by train, bus, two ferries, bus, walk - a day...
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