jag12

never saw the robin

2011-06-27T14:24:12Z

Guess I must have run over a robin,. Those who read the previous blog will know I planned a meal and a drink for Saturday, before my chemo started Tuesday (tomorrow). Well talk of all luck being bad, I had to spend Friday and the next 2 nights in hospital due my Diverticulitis playing up and was drugged up on Tramadol and Morphine while being boosted on antibiotics. Well i'm finally back home now and they still say they can do my chemo along with the treatment for my Divertic. I'll have a small libation a few days after chemo and take it as it comes. I aint going to let this beat me, no way. Just got to turn the first corner on that road.

Just diagnosed

2011-06-23T19:59:26Z

Hi I have just been diagnosed with High grade anaplastic large T- cell non Hodgkin Lymphoma stage 3B. After knowing I had a cancer for nearly 2 months, today they finally came up a name, and what a long one it is. I start CHOP chemo on Tuesday and after suffering from intermitent extreme pain in my groin I am really pleased I can now start on the road to recovery. Because of the pain they gave me Tramadol which has really made me constipated. Today they have given me Lactulose and Senna as they say the chemo will make me even more so. Hope it clears up by Tuesday. Hope to going for a slap up meal at the weekend and maybe a few pints as well. Here's to the future and beating this.

should read not

2011-06-20T17:55:12Z

sorry that should have read he did not want to start chemo, as yet i have no idea when it will start, but i will beat this when we get going

Getting worried

2011-06-20T17:35:08Z

Hi I wonder if any one has had/ having the same experience as I find myself in. I was diagnosed with neck cancer in early April and had a biopsy to confirm it on 6/5/11 plus CRT and Ultra sound scans. The Consultant told me I would be starting my chemo on 2/6/11and we were all prepared for it but 2 days before asked me to come in. He then told me that they could not identify the type of cancer, all they knew for certain was it was Hodgkins lymphona.They arranged for a PET scan on 2/6/11 and I saw him on 9/6/11. Since then I developed large and extremley painful lumps in my groin and began getting feverish in the evenings, so I rang the nurse at the hospital. They arranged for me to see the consultant on 16/6/11. He then told me that my sample had been sent from Birmingham to London and they could not identify it so they would have to send it to Cambridge for special tests. Meanwhile he told me he did want to start chemo because of the uncertanty, although he did say it was stage 3. He gave me Tramadol for the pain but even taking with paracetamol only just touches it. I am getting very worried because this seems to be spreading quite rapidly. Is this the norm or am I just worrying for nothing. Any comments would be welcome