During surgery I had groin lymph nodes removed from both the offending right side and left. Latest news is that nothing showing from left side but 3 out of 11 nodes showing signs on the right side.
Chatting to youngest daughter and saying it seemed a bit brutal to take left lymph nodes out.
Her comment? ‘ Honestly Mum, if they had to call you back later to remove the left nodes you’d be gutted!’
It took…
Yesterday was my birthday.
Instead of the usual early morning singing down the phone from various family members which is the norm I was up very early for a planning CT scan. As the early morning traffic around the hospital ( not my local ) is notoriously bad we set off at silly o’clock.....and arrived an hour and a half too early! How do you judge these things?
Got in at appointed time only for the team to decide…
5 weeks of radiotherapy started yesterday and today was first of 5 weekly doses of chemotherapy.
Each of these unknown new experiences is very daunting so I presented myself this morning with slightly wobbly legs.
As with all my experiences since this journey began, everyone I met was just lovely. The nurse who I was to spend most of the day with was great and explained everything she was about to do. She walked away…
Time moves along and I thought I would just check in with my GP who I hadn’t seen since pre surgery partly because I was handed over to another hospital and partly because I know our surgery was down a doctor and I really had no need to see anyone. Feeling somewhat uncomfortable as I felt like I might be taking up valuable time, I had the most wonderful welcome from her! She gave me a big hug ( don’t even know her that…
I haven’t added to my blog for a while - not because I haven’t had a laugh along the way but because after 25 days of radiotherapy plus the weekly chemo dose I have been too shattered to write it down.
Today should have been my final radiotherapy session but due to machine breakdown yesterday was cancelled. It felt like a bitter blow but I got over it and now have a Saturday session so tomorrow will be the…
