Jillyanna's blog

Is it that my hair has from being long to quite short, is it I have this cancer 'Aura' around me, are people scared of me? my husband has gone away for the 3rd weekend in a row, maybe to get away from me?? my friends seem to just dwindle, it's a bit sad really. Not sure if there is anyone feeling as lonely as me, wish this life i have been given was more fullfilling I suppose this is what is known as fate is and my last…

Hello Just wondered if anyone has risked going on holiday without travel insurance?? It is so expensive to try and get insured, and as I'm only going for a week and have been well, thought i would risk it, does anyone have any advice for me and haven't been away from England since my dx in Feb this year, so a little nervous. Thanks folks.

Hi Everyone It was nice to have some sunshine today and do things around the garden and tend to my koi pond, got a couple of 'sterlets' today, so hope they do ok as bloody expensive!! (could really have used the money better!) but just thought I'd let you know that my ct scan of neck pelvis abdomen lungs had no further tumours or growths and I'm still not on chemo again yet as it made me so ill, but my anxiety was lifted…

Hello I have been given £600.00 from the RCN benvolent fund to spend on a holiday for me and someone else to spend 3 days away, Does anyone have any nice ideas what and where i could go?? It has been suggested 'Albany lodge' in bournmouth run by or owned by Macmillan nurses with thames valley hospice, has anyone been there for a break?? Thanks Jilly x

Just to let you know if anyone is curious, but plucked up the courage to ask about my kidney cancer, I had a frank talk with the oncologist, I'm for paliative care only. My tumour was 8.3 cm and had already spread through the vein and to the lymphs. Been taken off the chemo, as the side effects where killing me before the cancer, but hope to go back onto more after the result of my scan which is coming up soon. But on…