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  • Secondary Tumour (Brain)

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    After a trial of 9 weeks in hospital last year John was doing very well, he strated to gain weight and was able to go back to work in January 2011.  After 10 days at work he started with very bad headaches and unable to keep even water down.  After 3 weeks and told by our GP that nothing sinister as they called it was going on I asked for him to be admitted to hospital to first get some food and water down him ah then to…

  • Life after the operation

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Hi All
    Thank you for all your comments and hope that you find some help from my blog.. Just an update on my husband.

    He came out of hospital on 16th June 2010 and I have to say it has not been easy, he was at first very weak after been in bed for nearly 9 weeks but we have now got hime moving.  He takes the dogs out for short walks, and tries to help in the home. We had great shouts of joy from our grandaughter last week…

  • 7 weeks of hell

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    My husband was told in December he had stomach cancer, and it was in operable, but after 9 weeks of chemo the tumor had shrunk so much surgery went ahead on the 19th April 2010. The operation went well, but he suffered respiratory failure due to a chest infection and taken to intensive care.  After 10 very hard days he went back to high dependency ward waiting to have a brocoscopy to clear the infection.  This was done 154th…