Thinking Positive

  • Where's my 'get up and go'?!

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    I guess my blood count has been found to be low (65 - where about 100 is the lower end of normal I think) - which was worrying enough last Friday for my doctor to almost get me a same day transfusion. I ended up having a whole 3 units two days later on the Sunday - which was a long day! I have felt physically kind of strong, or at least more...solid, but mentally/emotionally have felt pretty weird. It has strongly occurred…

  • Yearly scan to reveal strange pooing behaviour?

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Jeez!! The font on this thing is very small! No matter....

    Ok, so it's been a year since I found out that after 6 months worth of somewhat tortuous chemo, and then 6 months of recovering from it, my cancer had returned to my bowel and rectum, with some spread into my lymph. I had a CT, MRI, and PET scan back then, the last of which was very revealing in terms of the alarming size of my returned tumour. I hadn't had a…