So Dave finished his chemo & radio and was gradually weaning himself off the steroids when out of the blue he got sick.
He had diarrhea, a high temp and hot & cold flushes and was sleeping all the time.
I was so worried but just didn't know what to do for the best!
In the end I called one of the nurses on his team at the hospital and he spoke to he registrar. She said it was probably nothing to worry about…
Thank you so much everyone that answered yesterday. I was having a wobble and you really touched me xx
After my hurried explanation I thought that I had better fill in some of the finer details.
So Dave has a Grade III Astrocytoma on the rear right hand side of the brain. It is/was roughly the size of the palm of your hand and was too deep to be operated on. He had a grading scan but it could not be used for diagnostic…
Hello everyone.
I am just starting on this "Blog" journey and I don't even know if I am doing it right! (Probably not - appologies if I am wrong).
Back in August 2010 my husband (Dave) was diagnosed with a brian tumour. It was the day before we were due to go on our annual holiday with our 3 children (14, 9, 5).
On advice from our brain surgeon we went away but it was the longest 2 weeks of my life.
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