Sims's blog

Hiya all,

It was my Mum who had SCLC diagnosed almost this time last year, got the all clear in April/May.
Well, she never was quite right - and subsequently a couple of weeks ago was told she had secondarys - lung again, chest, adrenal glands and poss lymph nodes.  She's on chemo again for another 6 cycles.  She's lucky as it doesn't make her feel bad at all.
But I think its the beginning of difficult times…

And Jesus said unto his 12 apostles as he was being nailed to the cross: Don't touch my feckin Easter eggs, I'll be back on Monday !

Hey all, On Thursday Mum received some quite amazing news following the conclusion of her chemo, radiotherapy and final x-rays and CT scans: "There are no cancer cells in your body Mrs Rogers" Of course it was swiftly followed up by the stats for the recurrence of this sort of cancer, and that she still has to have radiotherapy to her brain as a precaution. But she is still in shock. I am well aware, acutely so recently…

Well, as far as I know Mum is still doing pretty well. Had a rough couple of weeks on the Radiotherapy, as the tumour is close to the gullet and this resulted in a painful burning in her throat. She was quite down for a couple of weeks as for the first time she felt frail and weak. On the very day the consultant said things would begin to ease (10 days after the end of RT) she began to feel better and now having had…

Hey all, Been a while since I last blogged - but just wanted to update with some good news really. Mum has now had 4 sessions of chemotherapy. After the first 3 they changed the recipe slightly to E&C which is quite heavy going, as the drugs can have an effect of the kidneys so they have to be administered I part chemo IV then 1 part saline IV - resulting in 8 hours on IV and Mum needing a wee every 10 minutes! Wheeling…