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  • SIX MONTHS OF CHEMOTHERAPY-THE MEANING OF LIFE STAYED THE SAME

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    I have now completed six sessions of chemotherapy and swallowed a lot of drugs.  There were no promises or predictions, so I am pleased to find that that the tumours have reduced in size, not quite a miracle but some improvement at least. Unfortunateley in the last few weeks since giving up the steroid tablets I have been very ill.  I was quite shocked to be refused any assistance from my Cancer Unit and had to endure…

  • reflections on life - prognosis

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Having been given no actual prognosis, I find planning any future activities particularly difficult.  I understand of course that we will all react differently and individually to any drug treatment, but is it to much to ask for some general guidline about life expectancy ?  The treatments must be quite similar for Cancer types, mine is Lung Adenocarcinoma stage 1V and secondarary Spinal, both of course incurable.  My treatment…

  • reflections on life

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    My blog is called reflections on life and is aimed at encouraging people to use the internet and discuss the issues surrounding cancer and society. Discussion based on an holistic world  view and patient perspective.

    http://gazelle4-commentsonsociety.blogspot.com/