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Forum Post: How do you deal with it?

Posted by mykesh
Posted over 1 year ago

Hi everyone. Firstly, thanks for reading this post as it is very important to me and my family, hopefully it will be relevant to you and insightful. I am sorry if it is very typical and something you must have seen a number of times, but please help us out if you are in a similar situation : / ...
Forum Post: Re: The Story So Far...

Posted by Everhopeful82
Posted over 2 years ago

Hi Crystal, Thank you so much for your kind words, before I joined the site I used to follow all your lovely messages to others before me. You always seem to find the time to offer comfort and share your positive messages. Dad is doing not too bad, he is in for a meeting with the radiologist tomorrow...
Forum Post: Advice regarding whether to have operation

Posted by Olive4624
Posted over 2 years ago

Hi all, I am new to this forum, but have already found the posts on here to be really helpful, so thank you. My Dad was diagnosed with stomach cancer the week before Christmas. It is a diffuse cancer and has spread within the stomach and into the stomach wall, but not into another organ. They found...
Blog Post: Operation scheduled

Posted by millsi
Posted over 2 years ago

Well Dr's confident about how to proceed in removing the mass. It's not near any major blood vessels and has well defined margins. He talked about the possibility it could grow back so will need follow-up MRIs in the future to monitor it and as time passes the likelihood for regrowth will decrease...
Blog Post: So...here goes

Posted by Davidptfc
Posted over 2 years ago

So, hi there. I'm new to this. Where do I start? Bring you up to date? Dad had a huge belly. He was a good eater, so we thought it was too much rich food and Guiness. He had trouble peeing, but thought nothing of it. A proud man usually doesn't. Anyway, turns out he had been retaining urine...
Forum Post: Awaiting results....Scared

Posted by LilacKate
Posted over 3 years ago

Hi I am new to the site I am Katie and 20 years old. After nine years of being treated for migraine, after going to an optician in April and failing the tests and having a MRI at the hospital, I have recently had an operation in May this year for the removal of 3 brain tumours. I have been recovering...
Blog Post: Completed - one operation 14 June 2010

Posted by Jules2010
Posted over 3 years ago

Matt had his operation at 8.30am this morning, well that is when he went down to be prepared and he came back on the ward just before 1pm [ a long time to be gone and in the care of others] We were told they had removed the 4 lesions as planned and taken skin for graft from behind his ear, also a...
Blog Post: Graphic post Op Photo - Leg after 2 wks 2 days

Posted by crowiedoll
Posted over 3 years ago
Blog Post: The Op

Posted by kate91
Posted over 3 years ago

Hi im starting this blog with the Op, when i get round to it ill fill in the diagnoses before it. On Monday i had lumpectomy with full lymph node clearance for breast cancer. The operation went fine. The nightmare then started i went back onto a womans health ward with only 10 beds open in a busy hospital...
Blog Post: First comment - just going for chemo...what is it like???

Posted by jcw
Posted over 3 years ago

Everything has happened so quickly within four weks, had radical hystorectormy and abdomen lining and nodes out now going for chemo 6 sessions, what is it like - how effective is it????
Blog Post: My Dad

Posted by Emmeline
Posted over 3 years ago

Like all daughters ( or most!!) my Dad is my superhero so needless to say this came as a total shock to us. There are no words to convey just how awful it feels . I have some blog entries I made on another site that I will copy and paste here , I suppose to show the harsh effect its had so far...
Blog Post: Thoughts from the frontline - 21

Posted by Andrewx2
Posted over 4 years ago

Well, we are now here. The day I go back into hospital for "the big one". And the most important thing for me to say today is THANK YOU. Everybody who reads my rambling utterings on this site has helped me get through these 43 days since we found this cancer inside my bladder. I think that...
Blog Post: Last day – Didn't we have a lovely time!

Posted by tgirl
Posted over 4 years ago

I have spent the last few days in a state of euphoria, tipsyness and with the odd tiny moment of impending doom. It's been an intoxicating mix. And now at last (insert fanfare) we arrive at The Last Day. But I am skipping ahead. A and I had our engagement/house warming/pre operation shindig on Sunday...
Blog Post: He had to be 'Different' didn't He?'

Posted by Julie Ryan
Posted over 4 years ago

Well, we have always been described as different but this time it wasn't a 'good different'. David was admitted to hospital for his esophogectomy (whip the esophogus (with stage III tumour) out, cut out a bit of stomach and make new gullet with the rest of the stomach by joining it to the...
Blog Post: masectomy and hospital

Posted by JANISRW
Posted over 5 years ago

well stage two is over with, went in on the 13th November to Barts for partial masectomy and lymph node clearance, came out thursday just gone. It wasnt so bad, i was terrified as i had never had operation before but it was over in a flash, bit sore but nothing too desperate, lovely healing process in...
Forum Post: He's had the operation

Posted by kimmieto
Posted over 5 years ago

Hi there Well Trevor had the operation yesterday. Was a lot longer than anticipated but the surgeon was determined to do it as a keyhole op, She was very happy with the results but he has a stoma/bag. Because the tumour was lower in the bowel than first thought the surgeon wants the repair to heal...
Forum Post: Input appreciated!

Posted by goodkarma
Posted over 5 years ago

My wife had an operation on Sept 5 to remove a growth in her ascending colon. The surgeon says he successfully removed the tumor. No bag was necessary. There is some sign of metastases in her liver that we will treat with chemo later. She has been recovering well since the operation and her bowel...
Blog Post: healing/ recovery and getting some balance back in my life

Posted by cazje
Posted over 5 years ago

I was accepted yesterday for the Hestel and balans course here in holland which means healing/recovery and balance think the balance means balance back into your life. I am real pleased as there is no balance in my life at the moment i feel like i am on an emotional rollercoaster and am going though...
Forum Post: What complication?

Posted by Tuckerz
Posted over 5 years ago

Hi all I'm going in to have my operation next week. I was wondering what complications any of you have had, and what scaring you have? I have been diagnosed with Metastatic melignant melanoma of the left auxillary lymmphnode.(under left arm pit). I have only ever benn in hospital when I was 4 to...

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