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I've just started my 2nd line chemo - taxol on a weekly basis. I have to say it is a might relief after a month of feeling in limbo waiting for scans, then needing to have an op to fit stents in both kidneys and to recover from that.
I feel more positive now as I am back on the treatment treadmill and with now having weekly chemo I feel that I am really fighting this cancer and can take it on.
I really hope that my next scan (end of Jan) will show that this new chemo is working. But I've decided...
as some of you know i have a blockage in my small bowel which has been causing me problems, namely being hospitalised 3 times in 2 weeks!! well i had an appt. through to see the colectoral surgeon for 17th dec to discuss the next step and duly noted this on the calender. next day the phone rang and a man asked to speak to susan....took me a while to catch on that was me cos no-one ever calls me susan. the voice turned out to be that of the surgeon who had looked after me so nicely when i was in...
I'm about 48 hours into my Cancer experience. I was told on the 7 December 2010 that the lymph node they removed was a melanoma. I had suspected I had Lymphoma but now I'm not sure which is worse.
It's heart stopping and devastating at first. But yesterday I saw the Dermatologist who seemed reassuring. 2 new holes in my body. They took the least perfect looking moles to send to the lab, even though they didn't appear to be suspect under close examination. They conference call with Southampton...
This time last year all of our hope and dreams were dashed as the consultant so calmly said to Bert " you have active leukaemia in you blood just go home you will be lucky if you have a couple of weeks left" Why do they have to deliver such bad news in such an unforgiving way. I think if Bert had been fit enough he would have thumped the Dr. Not for what he had to say but how he said it.
He never wanted to know the prognosis right from the beginning and after 18 months of keeping it from...
Ello everyone,
Well just to let you know that round 2 of chemo seems to be going much better then the first time round :-) Scalp cooling treatment still seems to be going well... i have still got a full head of hair (so far) although i no longer have to shave my armpits.... hardley a bad thing is it lol.
I now have injections day 1 after chemo which last for 5 days these are to boost my bone marrow and i noticed a massive difference i wasnt nowhere near as tired as i was round 1... then day 5 after...
The past few days have been quite good. I overdid it shopping for some winter clothes and party shoes for the girls on Monday (glad to have done it though), and then slept a lot yesterday and spent hours finishing a great Maggie O'Farrell novel. Today: coffee in Stony and into the library to hand in a letter of support (it is threatened with closure in the cuts - it would be a huge loss to the community).
The good news is that the surgeon and nurse are happy with my progress. I had my appointment...
Had cytoscopy last week, cancer back again. This is the third time. I know have to see another specialist about surgery as all different treatments have not worked. I am in shock as I knew what way it was heading but now it looks like its here I am petrified. Ive done 18 months of treatments for nothing. I feel so sorry for myself (big baby) I think I need a kick up the backside telling me Im lucky Im still here, but at the moment it doesnt feel like it. I know it means I should be cancer free after...
I wanted to write a diary at the start of my journey but I never made the time and then whilst I was having my treatment I often did not have the energy. I have longed to just be able to get what is rolling around in my head out of it so I can think about something else and return to it later if I want to.
I have read a few blogs and thought to myself I need to do that so here goes!!
Had my MRI scan to review my progress 3 months post treatment and had the appointment to get the results last week...
steve passed away yesterday at 18.10 sudden but peacefully RIP thanks for all support
It will be a month on Friday since you left us. It will also be Rebecca's 16th birthday that day. We will try to make it as special as possible for her whilst also remembering you. She misses you so much, she tries to be brave in front of her friends at school, but at home, late at night I hear her crying for you. I was so proud of her, reading at your funeral, I hope you were proud of her too.
Dad is coping, just........ There was a power cut the other day, it took him an hour to work out how...
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