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  • Basingstoke Hospital – Hearing From

    HawkeyeBrown
    After the little bit of scan faffing around at Frimley, Basingstoke Hospital contacted me on 27th July to offer me an appointment to talk to a surgeon on Friday 6th August, so I had been accepted by them. Initial feelings were that was good news, tha...

  • Post Chemotherapy Scans

    HawkeyeBrown
    On July 4th I was back at Frimley to have both my CT and MRI scans to see how the chemotherapy had affected the tumour in my bowel and what the next step would be. Thankfully I managed to arrange these to both take place on the same day. Due to requi...

  • The First set of Chemotherapy Treatments (all rolled into one section)

    HawkeyeBrown
    Just to first of all say, I won’t repeat myself on my treatments, only mention if anything changed for me from treatment one onwards. Meeting With The Nurse - On March 8th I went with my wife to have a meeting with the Chemotherapy nurses to di...

  • Oncologist Meeting

    HawkeyeBrown
    Following all these scans I was referred to Royal Berkshire Hospital to proceed with an oncology meeting and chemotherapy treatment. On Tuesday 2nd March off I went with my wife to Reading for an appointment at 9:30, we left with plenty of time to sp...

  • Brief Evening Visit To A&E

    HawkeyeBrown
    February 21st is the first time throughout all of this (and I really hope only time, touch wood) that I noticed blood in my stools. This is obviously a sign of bowel cancer and to be expected, but honestly it freaked me out. It did not look like a lo...
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