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Forum Post: Can someone help me

Posted by scared_friend
Posted 12 days ago

Thanks for reading. My friend has recently been diagnosed with lung cancer. I'm not 100% sure, but as he has told me that the cancer is inoperable due to its location near his heart, I think it may be stage 3. He also told me that when he was first diagnosed he would be able to have surgery...
Forum Post: Cancer patients and the feeling of 'Otherness'

Posted by AlexNTU
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: Hello to all from a newbie

Posted by xLyn
Posted 8 months ago

Hello to all. Firstly I'd like to say thank you to all the people that have had the energy and the courage to post. Simply being able to read what you have all written has helped me enourmously already. You have also given me the courage to say hello. I am a 43 year old female. I was diagnosed on...
Forum Post: My Grandad Diagnosed With NSCLC

Posted by MISSxB
Posted over 1 year ago

My Lovely grandad back in january had a cough that he couldnt get rid of so went to doctors, they sent him for a chest x-ray an took some bloods, 3days later doc rang saying he needed to see him to discuss the results of x-ray something showed up so he was sent for a CT scan, results came back that he...
Forum Post: my dad, im in pieces :(

Posted by chirambo123
Posted over 1 year ago

Dad has cancer for the third time in his life, this time we knew it was different, symptoms completly different, friday after weeks waiting for appts ct scans, biopsy etc he got the new that its terminal lung cancer so aggressive that it grew so aggressivly in such a short space of time,we had a flicker...
Blog Post: My Mum - Denise Leahy

Posted by Sosanna
Posted over 1 year ago

It's shocking the decline in my Mum's health. Yesterday she was so weak even her voice, i really thought she was dying!! She kept saying she was cold even though her flat was hot. She's hardly eating or drinking. Perhaps it's the side effects of the RT. She was too weak for chemo but...
Forum Post: Hiya.

Posted by josie6
Posted over 2 years ago

Hello. I called Macmillan today in floods of tears (I can't stop lately) and the nice lady on the phone suggested I look into the online community thing as well. My dad has cancer, primarily of the bladder (now aggressive) and secondaries in the lungs. He was diagnosed about two years ago and...
Forum Post: Have I covered all the bases??

Posted by Jules2010
Posted over 2 years ago

Just wanted to check I have done all I should be doing for my lovely Dad!! Situation is as follows: Lung Cancer diagnosed early this year, radiotherapy started after three sessions stopped as he developed ill health TIA's confirmed via brain scan three weeks ago - this is the reason they...
Forum Post: What to expect - Radiotherapy starting 22 March

Posted by Jules2010
Posted over 2 years ago

My lovely Dad will start his radiotherapy on Tuesday 22 March. He will go everyday until the 19th April [ weekends off] The radiotherapy is for a tumour in his lung. Dad took poorly in October 2010, one chest infection and breathing problem after another, finally seeking medical assistance he was...
Forum Post: Re: secondary brain tumours following lung cancer

Posted by dawn_mcgowan
Posted over 2 years ago

Hi there silvery50, How are things with you, and how is your mum? Did you get to have a chat with the Macmillan nurse? My nana was offered assistance from a Mac nurse and she didn't want to take it up. I think it's because she is proud. As we are a big family anyway, I am hoping she is getting...
Forum Post: new to this and need help

Posted by lynn rogers 19
Posted over 3 years ago

hi im new to this please bear with me my partner was diagnosed with lung cancer and secondary brain cancer which they said is terminal and there was nothing they can do for him and gave him 3 months they put him down for 10 sessions of 15 factions of radiotherapy on the whole of his head but they are...
Forum Post: Re: New here .. and a bit in the dark!

Posted by pageantqueen
Posted over 3 years ago

Jotty sorry to hear your news. Have tried talking to the lung cancer specialist nurse about your dad. Radiotherapy will help to slow down the cancer growth. If he is not beeing offered chemo its because (a) he is too far gone for chemo or (b) he is too sick to have chemo. Try an talk to your...
Forum Post: Hi I'm new...

Posted by jackyliz
Posted over 4 years ago

Hi I'm new...I typed an outline of my situation in About Me when I first registered, but I don't know if it's visible to others or if I should re-type it...(I post on other general forums but they're a bit different to this one so I'm finding it a bit confusing...!)My husband has...
Blog Post: Hello there, new here!

Posted by Joanna35
Posted over 4 years ago

Hello all I have just joined and I thought I would introduce myself. My name is Joanna and I am 35 years of age, split up with a long term partner 7 months ago, along the way I met Anne (44 - the lady stood in front of me in my photo), since we have met (only February) we have become inseperable. In...
Blog Post: Mum's Progress!

Posted by Sims
Posted over 4 years ago

Hey all, Been a while since I last blogged - but just wanted to update with some good news really. Mum has now had 4 sessions of chemotherapy. After the first 3 they changed the recipe slightly to E&C which is quite heavy going, as the drugs can have an effect of the kidneys so they have to be...

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