After two weeks wait - I eventually got the long awated phone call from the nurse with my CT scan results - this showed NO CHANGE - and they will discuss it further at my next Oncology appointment on 14th December.
I really am not sure what NO CHANGE means in real terms.
I am relieved that she did call me and that I was not left in limbo until mid December. Watch this space!
I finisished my five weeks of radiotherapy two weeks ago - and am still waiting the results of the CT scan for a shadow on my lung - BUT this morning I had a phone call from work. NO PRESSURE - BUT WHEN DO I THINK I WILL BE BACK AT WORK?
I am all confused - I have been signed off by the doctor - but feel I am not really ill. I am not really well either - but am not sure how well I am at present to do my job.
I have…
I just need to let off some steam and have a quick rant and rave.
Had a really good day up - hospital appointments and transport all ran smoothly - and then I had a call from my BC Nurse.
I felt fine until I mentioned that I had received my appointment for another CT scan for the shadow on my lung (Wednesday 11th November) which is the week after treatment finishes.
What if it is cancer - what if it is cancer caused…
I presume I am not the only one who has followed by the book the instructions given by nurse, radiographers etc etc that the only think I can use on the aread of my skin being treated with radiotherapy is BABY SOAP & AQUEOUS CREAM!. not baby bath or similar - just pure baby soap in a bar. No Deoderant, no body lotion etc etc.
I suffer from a skin condition and have steroid creams in varying strengths to use on my…
I started radiotherapy last week and am not coping at all with the treatment. Travel can take up to an hour and half in an ambulance - just to get there ( a little quicker if a car is sent). I have not got anyone to travel with me - not that there would be rooom in the tgransport for extras anyway - so feel completely lost and alone on arrival. Hospital is so huge.
I am finding the radiotherapy treatment very claustrophobic…
