Hi I'm Richard and i'm 32 from Swansea Wales.
Right now I am in the start of day 36.
I was admitted quite a while back, at first with a bad chest which then turned into pneunomia, which involved 3 weeks of having my chest drained of about 6 litres of liquid .
That was not fun having a pipe in the back of my chest 24/7 unable to sleep, or get an appitite. They did scan after scan and found nothing then they tried putting a camera down my chest and found and blockage . Then they operated and found tissue which then went off for biopsy.
About a week and a half later results were I have a NUT generic cancer which gave me lung cancer. Only 100 cases of this cancer registered so ..
I'm on my first round of chemo , 3rd day into but on my 4th/5th ward. Which is frustrating as all I seem to do is wait around nothing to do .
I am finding the lack of any privacy annoying can't seem to relax , as everyone seems to be telling me to just lay in bed all day long and I am getting depressed a lot. Can't seem to find An outlet as no-one understands and everywhere I read are posts about people watching their relatives and hardly any "I am going through cancer" posts.
I'll blog a bit later .. hopefully this will help
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