At long last I feel like I am getting somewhere with my eating. It has been a very frustrating business so far. Finally I have put some weight on and the Dietician has agreed that I may reduce my pump feeds from 4 to 3 a day. I am finding that I am able to eat a little bit more each week. At the moment I am having half a bowl of Special K cereal, half a banana and a Muller Fruit Corner Yogurt for lunch. Then in the evening…
Just back from the hospital for my check up. Saw my Consultant and my Oncologist. They both seemed pretty pleased with me. There is still swelling in my neck and throat and round the base of the tongue, but it is down enough that I am now ready to be scanned. I will be having a PET Scan as they say this will show things up best. Unfortunately they don't have a PET Scanner there, the nearest one is 80 miles away.
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Today is 6 months since I went into hospital for my neck dissection operation. Part of me feels pleased that I have recovered so well from the operation itself. The rest of me stays frustrated that my recovery from the remainder of my treatment is taking so long.
I am not coping well with my menopause. I’ve started getting the dreaded night sweats now. Anyone got any good tips?
I get days when I am fed up of being…
It is two months today since I finished my treatment so I’m making a note of my progress so far. I find it useful to do this now and then because sometimes I feel I’m not getting anywhere, but then when I look back over older entries I can see that there has been some small improvement.
I think that I have a little bit more energy. I go to bed now at 10pm, at the beginning of the recovery it was 8pm. I rarely…
We went out early yesterday morning to collect my hearing aids. My team had arranged for me to collect them from the local hospital, which was great as it saved the usual long journey. I’d never been inside there before. It’s a tiny little hospital, about the same size as the Oncology Department that I usually go to.
I find the hearing aid technology fascinating. There were loads of things happening on a…
