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Forum Post: :-( Not good news

Posted by ak71
Posted 3 months ago

Hi So, I went with Dad to his appointment with Gastro yesterday. Bad, news... Tumours are back and need chemo. However, they can't do chemo if his cirrhosis is unstable. His cirrhosis is very unstable, he only had his last drain a week ago and now needs to go back in ASAP. He is looking...
Blog Post: The fear of the unknown.

Posted by RedHare
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...
Forum Post: Too Many Feelings. Can't cope!

Posted by TooManyFeelings
Posted 7 months ago

I have only just joined this community because I feel the need to write down/name/share, the flood of feelings I currently feel about my Dad and his cancer. Sorrow. Wretchedness. Guilt. Anger. Fear. Self pity. My Dad retired about 2 years ago, and shortly after this, he was diagnosed with metastatic...
Forum Post: Coping with cancer in your twenties - supporting a partner

Posted by L_Belle
Posted 8 months ago

My boyfriend was recently diagnosed with testicular cancer. He is only in his mid 20s and I am a little younger than him. We have only been together around 3 months. When he told me about his cancer he said he wanted our relationship to take a step back as he didn't want me to go through it with...
Forum Post: feeling guilty putting my family through this hell (possitive mental attitude )

Posted by delightful debbie
Posted 9 months ago

hi everyone ive read so many stories on here my heart goes out to each and every person, i was diagnosed with neuroenderine tumour in my liver in 2008 and i went through surgery and a yr and a half later i was told it was all clear my partner was amazing even though i did try pushing him away and to...
Forum Post: Hard

Posted by Shelleyphilly
Posted 10 months ago

Hi there This is my first post and I am sorry if this is rambles. I just feel I need to get these thoughts out of me. My partner is 32 years old and has been diagnosed with osephogus cancer that has spread to his liver and lymph nodes. We only got the diagnosis 2 weeks ago and are waiting on our...
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Posted by cornish
Posted over 1 year ago

I fell into this alternative universe 4 weeks ago when the Dr said, "Yes you have a tumour in your sigmoid colon, you have Bowel cancer" My first priority was my wife, sitting patiently in the waiting room, how was I going to tell her, the world had suddenly taken on a very surreal feel...
Forum Post: 1st post...be gentle.

Posted by Adey82
Posted over 1 year ago

Hi, My mum was diagnosed in January with Stage 3 breat cancer with lumps in 2 further locations including her lymph node. My mum is my best friend, throughout my life I have always been the adult in our relationship and that's always been OK, But now I wish I could tell her how I feel abut her...
Blog Post: Reflections

Posted by CathieW
Posted over 1 year ago

Gosh I don't know how to bring this all together I am slightly tiddly but it is my birthday so think it is allowed! Today I have stopped to think about it all, I have been so lucky in that I was diagnosed with advanced bowel cancer and after radiotherapy with chemo, three surgeries and 6 months...
Blog Post: Cancer...cancer and more cancer!!!

Posted by keznmel
Posted over 1 year ago

As I sit here just after a 4pm with a cold glass of wine....I wonder what the hell I'm doing! Drinking at this time of day isn't something I often do but I really feel like I need the edge taken off my emotions at the moment....somewhere to escape to, just for a little while! I've just...
Blog Post: Angry, Sad, Confused!

Posted by keznmel
Posted over 1 year ago

Today I'm feeling angry! Cancer is taking over my life! It's all I talk about, think about and read about! I beat by battle in 2010 when I went into remission and there isn't a day that passes that I don't think it's returned as a part of my body gives off a little pain or something...
Forum Post: I don't want my Mum to die

Posted by Forest Pixie
Posted over 2 years ago

My Mum, the most beautiful woman in the whole world, was diagnosed with lung cancer in January this year. The consultants said they could treat it because it was found early and despite the fact that a secondary tumor was found around her lower vertebrae, I was told it was treatable. I tried to remain...
Forum Post: MacMillan Christmas Balloon at One O'Clock

Posted by JoansDaughterLiz
Posted over 2 years ago

MacMillan - we need a balloon that could help fundraise & help us. Christmas is coming & so many of us have either lost someone close or is helping someone close to us fight this disease, so why is there not the MacMillan balloon which is released at one o'clock on Christmas day to the...
Forum Post: Life After Treatment... Will it always get me down?

Posted by armoured
Posted over 2 years ago

Im just new to this and find it hard to find a group on here I can relate to. I was 22 when I was diagnosed with a Ewing Sarcoma, like all treatments for Cancer it had its terrible lows and its better days. But since finishing my treatment I find myself battling with many unresolved emotions and feelings...
Forum Post: Dad has terminal cancer, family pulling me in all directions...

Posted by fatblokeruns
Posted over 2 years ago

Found out beginning of September that Dad has advanced cancer in kidney, lungs and elsewhere. I'm finding it really difficult just to come to terms with the whole thing. Currently working on taking my kids (4 and 11) to see him - he's quite stable at the moment but finding things difficult both...
Forum Post: Re: Doctors lying to my parents? Why? I'm very confused and upset.

Posted by vickiw
Posted over 2 years ago

Hello everyone, Thank you all for your replies. I was in a bad place when I wrote the first message, so it may have appeared more hostile than it should have. I don't think the doctors are lying, I just wasn't so sure the surgeon had it correct. I know there are many types of anal cancer,...
Forum Post: All going downhill.

Posted by Broken Rag Doll
Posted over 2 years ago

My last post on this forum was when I was 13. It was about my mums brain tumour and how things were bad but looking up. I'm now 18 and until january things had been going famously, my mums scan had shown a small growth, but one small enough to still be considered as 'stable'. Her specialist...
Forum Post: Cervical worries

Posted by deeram11
Posted over 2 years ago

On monday at colposcopy i was told that my cells were CIN3. the doctor removed what she could but took a biopsy which I am now waiting on results for.I could tell by the look on her face when she first saw the infected area on the screen that it wasn't good news and she told me the area of the cells...
Blog Post: teeth, camera, action

Posted by Fulham P
Posted over 2 years ago

I am meeting with the hospital dentist today to decide how many teeth I can keep ahead of my radiotherapy treatment to my neck. I asked my nurse last week how they would replace any they remove. She replied without a moment's hesitation, 'They won't. You can't have any replaced or even...
Blog Post: Bang! There goes the French doors

Posted by Fulham P
Posted over 2 years ago

In January I was having romantic dinners on the beach in Koh Samui, in February I had a fantastic annual appraisal at work and planning the year ahead with my team, in March on a routine check up my doctor tells me I have a tumour on my tonsil that is probably benign but will need removing. The...
Blog Post: Im feeling scared husband seems calm...

Posted by LesleyMW
Posted over 3 years ago

Story so far: In November 2007 my husband decided to go to see a doctor bout the big lump on top of his foot, which had been present for a couple of years - but due to his parents being ill and looking after them, he put going to the doctors off until then. Luckily through work he has BUPA cover...
Blog Post: Saying goodbye & feeling helpless

Posted by Jewels
Posted over 3 years ago

Well I don't do many blogs to be honest, but I do read through this site regularly. I've not been on this site a full year yet, but I certainly have learnt a lot and met some lovely people. I'm older , wiser (still learning) and a damn site greyer (anybody know a good hair dye that actually...
Blog Post: waiting for the hospital to phone

Posted by pluck
Posted over 4 years ago

Im here in the kitchen staring at this screen. harassing google with all the new words which have cropped up today. After calling the hospital as my lovely man was too ill to talk yesterday and i havent recieved any texts from him today i was told his tumours are breaking down too fast. apparently...
Blog Post: trying to make sense???... :/

Posted by sonsscaredmum
Posted over 4 years ago

Hiya all, hope everyone who may read this, is well as they can be... Yesterday my son had scan-to see how effective Mini Beam has been on 'new' sternum growth. He acted as he always does before appointments-stroppy/angry-etc: I am used to it, infact dread the dates of any appointment he has...
Blog Post: living with a knott in my stomach - (Mum getting over cancer of larynx)

Posted by Han
Posted over 4 years ago

I thought I'd write a little, it might just help to get my mummy (and me) through this it might just help. Why do I have this knott in my stomach? It never goes away worried of what might happen, today, tomorrow, any day... pretending we are ok, We're fine & we're...
Blog Post: 1/10/09

Posted by 2ndchance
Posted over 4 years ago

well i had intended to start this on the first of october but a day late is not to bad, to get all the history ot of the way i was dx in november 2007, lucky for me i know that the time between blood tests that found my illness was erxactly one year so i was informed early on. after the initial shock...

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