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  • Forum Post: My story on BBC News! Am I the only one? Please, I need your support!

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    Posted 6 days ago
    I was diagnosed with ILC in 2009. I am trying to move on with life, but unfortunately, I am having problems with breast reconstruction. I do not want to shock women but tell them that things can be done right. [Edited by admin] I had four Breast Reconstructions, all went wrong, and I was discharged without...

  • Forum Post: Medical Ethics Research Project- Please Help by Completing a Short Questionnaire.

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    Posted 3 months ago
    Hello, My name is Zakk, a medical student at the University of Southampton. I am currently conducting some research in the field of medical ethics, and this involves circulating a brief questionnaire. The short questionnaire should only take 5-10 minutes, and I would be extremely grateful...

  • Forum Post: Re: Initial diagnosis

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    Posted 4 months ago
    Hi Pm2 Dear love you, more drama. All the best with the op and I hope you keep that cold at bay. I think if your chest was bad they would delay surgery. I was so worried about catching a cold or something in the summer when mine was. Get some hot honey and lemon in you and keep away from folks, so...

  • Forum Post: Prostate cancer treatment decision

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    Posted 4 months ago
    I have recently been diagnosed with prostate cancer (Gleason score 6 (3 + 3) with latest PSA of 24 up from previous measure 5 months ago of 19.7. The cancer was initially diagnosed approximately 5 months ago after 1 sample from a biopsy was found to be positive. At that time I was advised to "wait...

  • Forum Post: Re: Clear but now not coping emotionally

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    Posted 6 months ago
    Hi Purple Butterfly Its a hard road to go long. I have never felt guilty because of treatment, as quite frankly I have had and I am having such a hard time. My TC has kinda spread like a rash though the side of my neck and the scan after RAI showed alot of uptake on the bottom left lobe area. I feel...

  • Forum Post: Re: Initial Diagnosis

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    Posted 6 months ago
    Hi Lee You guys are so welcome, its nice to be able to support and ease other peoples fears. Its been a crap time for me for sure, things are moving slowly forward, I still always wish there was a fast forward button, but no such luck :( At the start and during it all, you will have those tough days...

  • Forum Post: Re: Initial Diagnosis

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    Posted 6 months ago
    Hi Lee Thyroid cancer diagnosis has a alot to do with age with regard to size, type and spread. When below 40 it doesn't matter what size your primary tumor is or if it has spread to the lymph nodes, it would be classed as stage one and is usually papillary like you have initially been told. ...

  • Forum Post: Re: Partner diagnosed with thyroid cancer

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    Posted 6 months ago
    Hi Lee Oh yes surgery is something I never thought I would have to deal with in life, it became the focus not the cancer. Before all this I was never in hospital, never needed stitches, never broken anything or even have fillings in my teeth, I only ever had blood taken once before and that was about...

  • Forum Post: Re: Mastectomy

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    Posted 7 months ago
    Thanks for your replies, which are all very interesting and helpful. I've got two lumps in my left breast: one is ductal carcinoma, about 2 cm pre-chemo (I had pre-adjuvant chemo), and the other is at least DCIS, 6 mm. Between the two lumps is an area of fine calcification (biopsies showed normal...

  • Forum Post: Horners Syndrome

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    Posted 7 months ago
    Hi all Its been a while, I am 4 months post TT and right radical neck dissection. I saw my surgeon yesterday and was confirmed as having Horner's Syndrome a rare complication of a neck dissection. My eye is dropped and the pupil smaller than the other eye. Has anyone ended up with this after...

  • Forum Post: Re: lumpectomy - what to expect?

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    Posted 7 months ago
    Hi Louise, I had my lumpectomy a few weeks ago along with a node removal, I experienced no pain, there was discomfort for a few's days. The exercises are very important part of a quick recovery. I could do most things about the house, the next day expect for lifting heavy things and reaching...

  • Forum Post: Strange results on PET scan?

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    Posted 7 months ago
    Hello I am fairly new to this board even though I was diagnosed nearly 2 years ago, I've not had much time to post, I'm 39 with 3 young kids and even the youngest is a whizz on the computer so I don't get a look in! I was diagnosed with bowel cancer in Feb 2011, stage 3 and had a hemi...

  • Forum Post: Neuropathic pain after surgery

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    Posted 7 months ago
    I am suffering from neuropathic pain which is deep nerve pain due to damaged nerve in surgery after radical hysterectomey. The pain was hurrendus and i ended up in hospital i thought something else had gone wrong was told it was severe nerve damage and i am now on morphine tablets twice a day and oramorph...

  • Blog Post: Surgery

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    Posted 8 months ago
    So it’s the morning on Saturday 11 th September 2010 and I am up early, as today I will be travelling from my home in Leeds to The Hampshire Clinic, Basingstoke to prepare for surgery on Monday. Sean and Jo are taking me down by car with Saranne their daughter and we are meeting my at the VW...

  • Blog Post: View from the bedside chair

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    Posted 11 months ago
    [Judy wrote this. She had lots of time for observation and contemplation yesterday. I, at least, had the occasional break. Judy pretty much got to sit for ten hours.] “Arrive early, 9ish, so we can do bloods,” said Dr Khan on the phone. “The radiologist doesn’t work on Friday...

  • Blog Post: Keeping sane!

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    Posted over 1 year ago
    Another steroid fuelled evening.... yes it is 2:30am... ridiculous! I will definitely be sleeping for 3 days once the steroids wear off! Apparently some people have no problems with steroids and feel no side effects, I am clearly not one of them.... and to be honest, I’ve yet to meet someone who...

  • Blog Post: What a difference a day makes

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    Posted over 1 year ago
    Seriously. Yesterday I couldn't get arrested - not that I was trying to get arrested, but the Churchill had gone all sullen and uncommunicative, painted its bedroom ceiling black, and was playing My Chemical Romance on an infinite repeating loop; today I've been beating them off with a stick...

  • Blog Post: Overcoming post surgery boredom!

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    Posted over 1 year ago
    After a steroid-fuelled weekend and a day of post-steroid craziness I’m ready for my second blog, very exciting! (Is it just me or does anyone else get weird post-steroid “sensorial hallucinations”? – yesterday it felt like I was being crushed by gigantic rocks!) When I was...

  • Blog Post: When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide

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    Posted over 1 year ago
    It was a funny week, last week. Not that they're not all a bit strange these days, what with the way everything has to revolve around cancer, in pure defiance of Galileo, but mostly what I do is spend my life sitting around, usually feeling guilty about sitting around and being sure that there ought...

  • Blog Post: Under pressure

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    Posted over 1 year ago
    Funny old thing, that cancer - yes, indeed, I see you all laughing already. Here I am with a tummy full of foreign bodies doing their best to mount a coup d'état against my internal organs, but a lot of the time I don't really feel all that bad. Then - of course - I feel like a terrible...

  • Blog Post: Countdown to D-Day

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    Posted over 1 year ago
    You know, I actually haven't any idea what the 'D' in D-Day stands for. Isn't that shameful? I assume I must've been told, at some point in the past fiftyveryodd years, but it's gone. Gone with the wind. (Even more shamefully, I could tell you the plot of that .) Anyway, I...

  • Blog Post: Being bored

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    Posted over 1 year ago
    My dear mamma used to tell me that only boring people were bored. This is a painful thought; I must be positively stultifying, because, as things stand at present, I am pretty much climbing the walls - or I would be, if the walls in our house weren't made of cardboard, or close enough, and probably...

  • Blog Post: The first cut is the deepest

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    Posted over 1 year ago
    Hello, blog. The last time we spoke, as you may remember, I had had a post-chemo check-up which had been indecisive, to say the least, as the oncology team hadn't then come to any real decision. However, then I had a phone call to say that they would like to do a second laparoscopy (funny things...

  • Blog Post: Ten days that signally failed to shake the world

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    Posted over 2 years ago
    WARNING: CONTAINS VOMIT. This is old news now but, as I've said before, there's no point in keeping a cancer blog if I don't keep it up to date. (There isn't much point to it either way, but let that pass.) So, I can't be bothered to do the wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey special...

  • Blog Post: Hit us like a smack in the teeth!

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    Posted over 2 years ago
    Yesterday (Wed 7 Sep 11), my Mum was diagnosed with terminal cancer derived from her bowel. She has been unwell for a number of years, has cirosis of the liver, anaemia, diabetes, polyps plus a number of other complaints. The doctors have given her months to live which is difficult to comprehend, I mean...

  • Blog Post: Dear *hospital that shall be nameless*

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    Posted over 2 years ago
    Hi, how are you? Remember me? The 'pleasant' middle-aged lady who had the exploratory laparoscopy? I haven't seen or heard from you for a whole week, so I think you might've forgotten me again. Either way, that's seven whole days for me to build up a whole steam of resentment. ...
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