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Well had first meeting with my oncologist today and actually feel incredibly positive - for the first time in what seems like ages. I can actually imagine going on holiday now next summer, whereas last week, couldn't see beyond christmas!
Hi, This is the first time I've posted anything on here and I'm not quite sure what to do or how to do it. My husband was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer, and also liver cancer, last Novemeber and has had chemo for that. It seemed quite sucessful and he has had a fairly good quality of life for a good few months. However during the last 4 weeks or so he has taken a turn for the worse and I don't know if it's his cancer or his mind that are playing up now. He has a pain in his right shoulder...
september 21st - well......fingers crossed...and touchin wood....todays chemo drugs have gone in ok...no mad reaction like yesterday!!! woo !! hoo!!! he s on cisplatin and 5fu.....and so far so good!! he s just over moon its gone ok today. know we got a long way to go but onwards and upwards! he now feels his treatment is starting!! def got a positive head on.
was reading about the combination of the drugs an how hair loss only MIGHT happen.....just wondered if anyone had any info on this? we were...
Well in the last 7 weeks I have had a liver resection & gallbladder removal to remove a tumour which surgeon said he felt was successful, after that had RFA to blast 2 tiny Tumours on my remaining kidney, the surgeon also said he felt that went successful......Had CT scan last Monday (firstly to see if RFA worked on the kidney tumours & secondly a usually CT scan after surgery to see if all removed or any new spread). I have oncology booked for this friday where I will get results, I am fooling...
september 20th 21st ....well nothin runs smooth does it??? left trev in the hospital ..chillin with a magazine. came home and did mam stuff!!! went on line and was chattin to him on facebook,,had just hooked him up to chemo..then he went quiet!! he text half hour later...he d had massive bad reaction to it...sweats, dizzy, tight chest and then blacked out. nurse had stayed to check on him luckily!!! he said he d been totally spaced out!!! took him back 20yrs to his raving days i think!!!! i can laugh...
Saw my consultant on the 13th and had everything crossed that the CA125 would have gone down. This was the first time it had been tested since starting this particular treatment and ....oh joy...it had decreased from 219 to 31 after 2 cycles! He was very pleased with my overall health and it was nice to leave the hospital with a smile on my face.
This smile got even bigger when our lovely daughter arrived for the weekend, accompanied by her (fairly new) boyfriend who we had never met. He was a...
i had my first treatment last wednesday...r-chop x 6, the steroids that you take make me really ill some days, pains all over, was sick the other night , this is all frightening stuff...has anyone else experienced this side effect......it's reassuring to know if there is ,they say phone if you have any questions at all but you dont like to bother them.........................
Well only a week to go till my chemo and radiotherapy begins, life is plodding away as always, keep thinking i should feel ill, my family seem to think i must feel ill, but feeling good, apart from having been told i have cervical cancer and the emotional issues it has brought, life is good,
HI, My partner is a keen horse rider and is considering immediate reconstruction using tummy tissue. I wondered if any other readers have experience of this proceedure and the longer term effects that it has on tummy strength or tightness. Any info would be helpful at this stage.
20th september - well, today s the day!!! we off to james cook hopsital in middlesbrough at about 12 noon. trev will be starting the first cycle of chemo....3 cycles. we feeling positive.....he was terrified about gettin the trachy etc in...but he s not going into this scared!!! he s got such a positive outlook. god knows what todays gonna bring but like everythin else in this journey..we surely gonna find out!!!
im focussed into doing what i need to do to be there and to support him. love him to...
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