I haven't visited the community for ages. This is because since 22 May I was back and forth to the oncology ward at York Hospital - that is until 4 June.
Keith had to go in for pain control; the palliative care team were really good, and after trial & error managed to find a suitable cocktail of drugs administered by syringe driver into the abdomen. Around 30 May he began to vomit brown gunge - so they put a drain…
It is a release to be able to put into writing what has been happening recently.
Keith had his scan 2 weeks ago, and has been in a lot more pain since then. We had to call out the duty doctor last week on Friday night because his pain control medication was not adequate. I felt so helpless not being able to do anything except be there for him. He was admitted to hospital and as he hadn't been able to eat they put him on…
This is mostly about my experience of seeing my husband of nearly 50 years who was a big active man start to diminish because of bowel cancer.
We were so thankful when he had a life-threatening bowel obstruction operated on under emergency conditions even though were were in North Cyprus on holiday at the time. The obstrution (2 cancerous tumours) was removed plus 13 lymph nodes, with a bowel resection. Fortunately he…
