3rd dance with germ cell cancer

  • What going on

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Well its been nearly three week since my operation and finally the major shooting pain has gone, and i have slowly weened myself off the oramorph, but my question is what is happening in my body,

    i have a blood test monday and will find out the results and what happens next friday, even though the results are pre ordained there are three possible results

    a) my tumour markers have returned to nearly normal, thus giving…

  • Major whinge

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Im going use this blog as a major whinge in what i so far been stripped of by cancer.over the last two and half years.

    .in the summer of 2012  life was ticking along, not brilliant could do better but getting there.and anywY it was the summer of the olympics and not only did i have tickets, but managed to get my mum tickets, so major brownie points to me

    june 2012 diagnosed with some sort of cancer an 18 inch tumour…

  • After surgery

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Well that wasn't fun, i for some reason though the lung surgery to remove a few nodules would leave me in the same amount of pain as last years surgery to remove my chest lymph nodes

    well it got the same name, same scars, so why not the same pain,

    wrong, it bloody hurt when i came round, and nearly two weeks late still hurts

  • Roller coaster

    FormerMember
    FormerMember
    Well though i just update this blog, the past few weeks have not been fun An unscheduled tumour marker, signalled things were not going in the right direction. And last friday they confirmed the worst, the last cycle of chemo was aborted, A) because they didnt have the stem cells B) because my tumour markers were rising, indicating that the cancer in their opinion was chemo resistant so all chemo would do would reduce…
  • Blood test

    FormerMember
    FormerMember
    Oh well, blood test day tomorrow, get really confused, one minute im told my tumour markers are only an indicator of cancer, the next im told they determine whether i'm allowed treatment, all rathe confusing, My sofa now seems to have a very big dent in it were i been laying for the last month, so not looking forward to having to give it up, and spend time at the royal Marsden, but needs must, I somehow cant see them…