Arrived at work this morning to find that all the planning and resources I had supposedly saved on my pen drive had disappeared. So I promptly burst into tears, something I do not do at work!! Managed to cobble something together in time ..just! I knew it was going to be one of those days I can feel myself sliding into a depression and there is the rub of things.... I have in the past suffered from depression at this…
Well it has been scan result day today. As usual, I prepared myself for the two extreme results..... no change, okay carry on as before....... something found, okay get on with further treatment. So which result did I get? Well, neither.... the bones are stable but the scan picked up a "small something" on my liver. A small something that is not quite identifiable. My onc wants to investigate further and is asking the…
It seems that a large part of our lives on this cancer journey involves waiting, waiting in hospitals as the appointment system fails, waiting for treatment in said hospital, waiting for tests and then the long wait for their results. And yes, I am waiting for my scan results to come through in the hope that my cancer hasn't decided to spread further. But I am also seeing how it feels with the shoe on the other foot in…
We all know that the majority of money spent on cancer research is generated by public donations and I try to do my little bit, I have shaken the can for Macmillan, marshalled races for cancer research uk and have even walked the race for life ( no I do not run). Well I wasn't able to do this years race for life (broken toe ouch!) so decided to do the Christies' Neon walk and enlisted help of one of my daughters and my…
Well I am going to throw in my pennyworth! I am one of the old what nowers and admit I haven't used the new site as much asI used the old site, part was because I was not keen on the new format , part because I no longer felt I belonged and part was because I wanted to distance myself from becoming overreliant on the site. I have, however, continued to pop in to catch up on old friends and to see what else is going…
