Donate
  • Home
  • > Community home

Browse By Tags

Tag Cloud
Tagged Content List

  • Forum Post: Caring for Dad - is it the end?

    Posted by
    Posted 2 months ago
    Hi My dad has advanced stomach cancer with mets to the liver and lymphnodes. He was near the end of his second round of chemo (he had 6 cycles of HCX first time round and then he was in middle of cycle 5 of 6 of EOX) and he suffered a major bleed. He has been on Tinzaparin to thin his blood due to...

  • Forum Post: Lost my Dad yesterday

    Posted by
    Posted 2 months ago
    My dad was diagnosed with an aggressive form of bladder cancer in 2009 and given 3 years. His chemo & radiotherapy at the end of that year went well, but in October of 2012 he began to get blood in his urine and we knew it had returned. However the doctor and hospital delayed the diagnosis...

  • Blog Post: Improving outcomes for people approaching the end of life

    Posted by
    Posted 2 months ago
    Debbie, from the Cancer Information team, talks about her own personal experience of cancer and the importance of advance care planning. Like many families, we weren’t comfortable talking about it. As a result, when dad died, there wasn’t enough time for him to come home as he wanted...

  • Forum Post: Feeling Lost

    Posted by
    Posted 2 months ago
    Hi, My mum was diagnosed with aggressive lung cancer Christmas 2011. We knew the prognosis wasn't good with 2 years being the best outcome. She has been battling so hard for the last year, I am so proud of her and how strong she has been. Due to where the cancer was she couldn't have an operation...

  • Forum Post: Travel Insurance - Terminal Prognosis less than 6m

    Posted by
    Posted 2 months ago
    I'm wondering if anyone can help with a query I have please? My Mother in Law (to be) has terminal lung cancer, we found out back in October and were advised she has "months". The Specialist was reluctant to say how many... This is proving very hard with trying to get travel insurance for...

  • Forum Post: Newbie - very scared and don't now who to turn to

    Posted by
    Posted 3 months ago
    Hi all, last year my sister was diagnosed with Inflamatory Breast Cancer (Stage 3) and it had already spread to the lumph Nodes. She is only 32. She has undergone chemo and a mastectomy, but just over a week ago now she was told it had spread to the liver and the spine. The chemo has worked on the liver...

  • Forum Post: Booking a holiday

    Posted by
    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: Second opinion

    Posted by
    Posted 4 months ago
    My mother has secondary breast cancer in the lung which has also spread to liver. She was first diagnosed 30 years ago, had a mastectomy and was in remission until 5 years ago. She received 6 months of traditional chemo in jan 2012 for 6 months but 3 months after ending treatment, it had grown again...

  • Forum Post: Supporting our child who has terminal leukaemia.

    Posted by
    Posted 4 months ago
    On Dec 20th we were given the devastating news that our child has relapsed and is no longer curable. Our wonderful, eleven year old, youngest child was diagnosed with Acute Lymbhoblastic Leukaemia (early t-cell precursor) early in 2012. We were relieved (and naive) to understand that this type of...

  • Forum Post: Sleeping more and more

    Posted by
    Posted 5 months ago
    My husband is in the advanced stages of lung cancer. He is now sleeping around 16 to 22 hours a day and has been for around 3 to 4 weeks. He eats very little and seems to have lost interest in most things he used to enjoy. However when he is awake he is able to read the paper or a book or listen to his...

  • Blog Post: It's over

    Posted by
    Posted 5 months ago
    The cancer's gone...and with it, it took my lovely John. He went only five days after my last post. There are good days and bad days, since last Thursday. It's all so fresh still. Funeral doesn't happen for over a week. I'm finding it very difficult to talk about things. Everyone...

  • Blog Post: so little time...so much change

    Posted by
    Posted 5 months ago
    It was only two and a half months ago that I turned 39. My birthday "bash" was great. Cancer was pretty much put to one side, and we all partied like it was 1999, haha. Photos of john and his brothers and me and my ex-workmates. Everyone looked so cheerful and we all really enjoyd each others'...

  • Forum Post: Re: What to expect :(

    Posted by
    Posted 6 months ago
    Hi everyone My mom was diagnosed it must have been around August, she began feeling ill in May/June. We went on holiday and she was all panicked and convinced something was wrong- she previously had breast cancer. She developed jaundice and then it was all snowballed from there, but it took 6 weeks...

  • Forum Post: Re: Any Advice?

    Posted by
    Posted 6 months ago
    Hi ladies, i know what you mean about your Dads.we found out about Dad in july whilst Mum was being treated for advanced cancer.At first it seemed to be advanced prostate,which can be controlled sometimes for years.Then the bombshell it is small cell..a fast spreading type and in his bones already,when...

  • Forum Post: To tell or not to tell?? Mum has <3months and doesn't know???

    Posted by
    Posted 6 months ago
    Hi, I'm new to this site, new to the dreaded Cancer world, new to caring for my mum who was recently diagnoised with terminal cancer, (no primary known) but she has brain, spine, hip and lung secondaries. Its incurable. My mum is bed bound and was fast tracked discharged last Tuesday, she is living...

  • Blog Post: Emotional month

    Posted by
    Posted 7 months ago
    I have written this just 3 weeks in to being told I have a rare eye cancer which will kill me..I have anything from a few months to hopefully 5 years or so if treatment works well. I will update the period leading up to this entry soon, but felt I wanted to try and hare a very difficult experience with...

  • Forum Post: Should we tell my dad he has terminal cancer?

    Posted by
    Posted 7 months ago
    My father is 89 years old. He lost his wife of 63 years in April. He had successful treatment for bladder cancer September last year, but now doctors have found that its back and now muscle invasive. They estimate that although he looks fine and is in no pain, he will be lucky to see much beyond the...

  • Blog Post: hell day

    Posted by
    Posted 9 months ago
    So Monday was spent all day preparing for and travelling to a court hearing that happened Tuesday. That's all a long story in itself, but boiled down it is extra stress that's just added to the already tangible strain on the family. John's parents looked after the little ones, with help from...

  • Blog Post: Drowning in it all

    Posted by
    Posted over 1 year ago
    My mum is the strongest, kindest most unique person I know, she is also my best friend, the only person who has stood there and told me "you can do this" no matter how bad things have gotten, even when I told her at 17 that I was pregnant and she just said oh well you'll be great at it...

  • Blog Post: Last Few Days

    Posted by
    Posted over 1 year ago
    Well, mum seems to have struggled during the days since Christmas. She has developed a very croaky voice (without a sore throat or anything) and is coughing up a bit of blood. She had a choking episode yesterday which scared the life out of her even though it was only her tea going down the wrong...

  • Blog Post: The Beginning

    Posted by
    Posted over 1 year ago
    This is the beginning of my blog but not the beginning of my mum Val's journey. That started in October 2010 when after a bad cough and a trip to the doctors she was told they had found a shadow on her lung. A week or so and a couple of scans later we were told it was lung cancer. Between October...

  • Blog Post: Today.

    Posted by
    Posted over 2 years ago
    It frightens me how quickly time passes and that as each day goes by, it's another day without my dad in my life. He passed away in May just 3 days before his birthday. My dad had never had the best health physically and mentally - he had a real rough ride of it. But Cancer. That's something...

  • Blog Post: Kezzerbird...still going strong

    Posted by
    Posted over 2 years ago
    Blimey what is going on with this site, I had enough problems before but this one well!!!! First of all I need to say sorry to all my mates for not saying hi but the Kezzer is doing well, I am still off all treatment and that is because it hasn't worked for me and makes me cronically sick so my crazy...

  • Blog Post: The slippery slope...

    Posted by
    Posted over 2 years ago
    Well. It’s started. The slope downwards. Dad is now in hospital after his legs gave out on Saturday. Swiftly followed by the rest of his body from the neck down. Mum couldn't wake him up on Saturday, and called me in a panic. So I suggested whacking him round the head with a pillow. (Can't...

  • Blog Post: Back from MIA

    Posted by
    Posted over 2 years ago
    HELLO ALL FROM SCOTLAND!!! Small update and a slight rant.... Well I haven't posted for a while. But it’s not because anything tragic has happened! So I will give you a quick update! I have relocated finally to the Borders in Scotland. It’s beautiful up here and I am ridiculously...

  • Blog Post: Where do we get them from....

    Posted by
    Posted over 2 years ago
    Right, time for THE update. Hospital report on Dad. Palliative Care has been set. They feel he will deteriorate within 6 weeks. We've been told there are a lot of tumours in the brain and that the change will be swift. SO IN LIGHT OF THAT, I thought I would share with you the Cat Lady story for...
Page 1 of 8 12345Next 5 >Last >>