Jozzy's blog

Had my CT scan yesterday, there were three of us in the waiting room this time all dutifully quaffing on our jugs of aniseed water before we went in for our scans. My veins were not happy bunnies this time, kept disappearing when they tried to get the cannula in. They had to call someone else in to find one and all went OK but quite funny with the number of cotton wool balls taped to me when I came out, wasn't funny…

I applied for DLA in December 08 and was turned down, at this stage after having an official letter telling me that I wasn't eligible I would normally have accepted it and left it at that. However after participating in another post I received a message from another member on this site which thankfully gave me the hope and motivation that I needed to ask DWP to look at my claim again. I wrote a letter to them stating…

My scan appointments have now come through, I will be getting a PET scan on 14th May and a CT scan on 26th May. Have been to clinic today and my consultant has given me an appointment on 5th June (my birthday) for the results, when he heard that it was my birthday on that day he offered to put the appointment back a week, I have never said no to anything so fast! Good news is that I can start relaxing and trying to…

Just got back from chemo no 8 - the last one - yey! Can't quite believe I got there, the last one seemed such a scary world away when I had my first lot of R-CHOP. Next is a four week wait to give this last one chance to work and then will have a CT scan and PET scan so that consultant can decide what is to happen next. Don't want to get my hopes up too much when tumour was so big to start off with but crossing my…

Just been for chemo number 7 today, was lucky that bloods were OK on Friday and not effected by the cold I had so everything went ahead as planned. Hadn't slept much last night so practically asleep in chair while rituximab was going in, know what's going to happen so don't know why I lose sleep over it every time but hey ho! Am just waiting for the sickness to kick in now - yuk.