That is the most scared I have been for years!! We began the journey to the hospital at 9.30am for an 11.00 appointment Bit better than the 6.30 start on Monday for the portacath to be inserted, but nonetheless after a sleepless night, early enough.
Although I have been through second-hand experience of chemo when my mother was treated some 25 years ago, this time for my husband, the feeling of overwhelming despair was…
Portacath went in today - up at 5.40am and taxi at 6.30am to get us to the hospital by 7.30am.... what an early start!!
The staff were wonderful and very reassuring and cheerful - we met the anaesthetist and surgeon and then my husband was taken to surgery at 8.30.
Whilst he was away I took the opportunity to meet my godson, whom I had not seen for some time as he had been away. We met for breakfast just around the…
This week seems to have been one of being lost and walking corridors of the hospital in an attempt to find different departments. The staff have been amazing - radioactive isotopes were injected into my husband before a special x-ray to check out his kidneys and heart, some of which was to ascertain what level of chemo he could tolerate. The good news (!!!) is that it looks like he has a high tolerance level and his organs…
One week ago today we were hit with the news that my husband's cancer had returned - 7 days and nights during which our world has been turned upside down. We are now waiting to hear when the chemotherapy will start - I keep wishing the phone would ring then at least we can set targets, but the silence is deafening.
My husband has returned to work whilst we wait to hear, and that is good. He was getting very depressed…
When my husband was rushed into hospital some six months ago - it ws terrifying - an emergency operation revealed a gapefruit sized tumour near the bowel, which has burst and extensive surgery was the only option.
Thankfully for him, he did not need a bag after the op as the surgeons were able to cut and resection the part of the bowel affected. The enormous shock of the diagnosis some 4 weeks later of a very rare type…
