Well now that I am back home from the hospital I am expecting slow but steady progress and it is not happening! I seem to be getting worse by the day. I came home feeling tired but now I would say I am lethargic, drowsy, disinterested in everything. I am taking the tablets they gave me but it is so painful to eat and drink so I hardly bother. I feel like I have jetlag, I'm not even sure what time of the day it is.…
Tuesday 5th March 2013. Up at 5.30am, no breakfast allowed, leave house 6.30am, get to hospital 7.30am. They tell my husband to ring at 1pm to arrange my collection. I am sent to the waiting lounge on the day ward. There are about 30 other people waiting. I get out my book and start reading. 9.30am I finish my book. I look around and realise I am the only person left sitting there, everyone else seems to be in their gowns…
It's now later on in the evening of 6th Feb 2013. I've had a nap and I seem to have now found the strength to cope a bit better. I sit down with my husband and we devise a strategy to cope. We realise it is going to be emotionally tough waiting the 4-6 weeks till I get a firm diagnosis. We decide that we will work on the assumption that it is cancer, but we won't tell anyone, apart from my boss, until we know for…
So on Wednesday 6th Feb 2013 my husband and I set off for the long trip to the hospital. Its 42 miles and takes us about an hour and a half. Get called in to see a very cheerful Consultant who specialises in Maxillo Facial Surgery. Presume he is the sort of person who will remove the lump. He takes down my details, I tell him that I am fit and healthy, I take a lot of exercise and eat correctly. I don't need any medication…
I find a small lump on the left hand side of my neck in early December 2012. I try the usual approach of ignore it and see if it goes away, but that doesn't work. So I try to diagnose the problem on the internet. Decide it is an infected gland following a recent sore throat. The internet doctor says I should go to the GP if it doesn't go down in 3 weeks. I make a note in my diary. I lead a busy life and I like to…
