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...when you're having fun. Ha, had to stop myself saying this to someone today.
Those who have given me words of encouragement know it hasn't been so for me but it's hard to believe that six months has passed since my post surgery results.
Today I managed to get into work in time for a 9:00am meeting, a first since my diagnosis. I certainly wasn't silent and got lots sorted but most importantly I took my suit jacket off in front of everyone. How good did that feel when I realised...
Been to see the onc, I will be having FEC and then Hecptin, back on the 8th to see the chemo nurses who will run through everything with me, she has said I will propley have a line put in as my vains arnt much good, had to have bloods done today and it took them 3 attempts to get enough.
Im entered in a dog show on the 10th and she said they could work round that and not start the chemo till after that which is nice. I have got to have some sort of heart scan too and have a check up with bcn on...
It is now Thursday and nothing is getting better, if anything i feel even worse, now i have terrible diaorrhhea, i can't keep out the toilet. I have crippling pains in my belly and i feel like i'm going to faint. Every thing i do, i do with my eyes shut, so as to keep the dizzyness to a minimum. I'm not eating or drinking now, as i feel so terribly sick, i have managed to ring my hospital again and they have rung my g.p. and told him to give me some anti sickness tablets, but they are not working...
See this journey isn't my personal battle with cancer, this is my personal battle with my granddad's cancer. My granddad being my best friend, my hero and above all my rock - through the bad times and the good he has been there for me, and I am trying to be there for him in his time of need.
My Granddad is a very healthy soon-to-be 80 year old with no previous health problems (the last time he was in hospital was 60 years ago to have his appenix removed when he was in the RAF). He takes...
I have my first round of chemo on the Friday and go off shopping to Tesco's after, next day is Saturday and we go out for a nice curry, i feel this is fine, i can cope with this. Sunday im starting to feel a bit sick and have a funny taste in my mouth. By Monday i need help, my hearing and vision are going, i so need to be sick but can't, i'm seeing things, terrible things, this is awful. There are 1ft wide spiders running over my bed and im so scared, there are men in my bedroom, they...
I am called in to have my lump removed and some lymph nodes, thank God it turns out that y lumph nodes are clear. The reason my bloggs are so long in coming is one, because i just could not work out how to do them lol, and 2 i was too ill to even write. Now i feel i can write them with a clear mind.
I start 3 months of chemotherapy in June 2011, my Onco was going to put me on FEC, but as i was born with a mild heart condition, Pulmonary valve stenosis, my Onco tells me that the E of FEC can cause...
Hi!
Has anyone got any info re DIEP??? I have formed a capsule around my implant and this has been suggested.
I am interested in all comments esp those who may had Addenbrooks experience!
Thanks all, EJ x
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