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My son is starting to really notice how dad is going down hill, 3 weeks ago dad and mum were still picking him up from school, now he spends all day laying down - sometimes asleep sometimes awake. I heard him talking to his little sister last night - he'd been sick the night before and she asked him if she was getting better like guggy "guggy's not getting better" came the reply.
I was so shocked then I just cried - I really am going to have to tell them, I know everyone says be honest...
Off to Northampton General for the first time tomorrow for planning in advance of radiotherapy starting in just under three weeks time. I think it should all be straight forward: CT scan (no barium this time I'm told!), and marker tattoos to help make sure I am in the same position each time I'm zapped for the radiotherapy.
B will be going with me, even though I said I wasn't sure if he'd find himself twiddling his thumbs and I could probably manage. Actually it will be good to have...
Again, I haven't posted recently and that is the reflection of things going quite well.
Cycle 4 has been similar to cycle 3 but the symptoms were more severe... more fatigue, more bone ache, more nausea, more muddy mouth taste. Nothing that wasn't manageable but worse than before nonetheless. One thing that was noticable by me was that she had more energy than before after about day 8. This was particularly good as we spent the last week away in the caravan at the British Grandprix at Silverstone...
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hi everyone... not posted for a week as the wound was looking the same all the time. but this is my last week off now so i am hoping they will take me out of all this heavy dressing and get me into a lympho stocking. UI am still dressing with acticoat, gauze, pad then tubi fast, tubi net but now only a single layer of tubigrib instead of double. I am still also doing the prontosan soak and plenty of 50/50 all over the leg and healed parts of the wounds.
Lymphoedema is minimal as i am really trying...
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First time doing this so hopefully this is right. My mum had breast cancer 23 years ago and now it has infiltrated her ducts and also in her bones and lung but xray showed she now has lesion in her bowel! she lives in spain with my dad and although the treatment is great her support is 0%, I go out as much as possible, she does want to come home. The spanish theory is to try everything until the end and they dont talk about life timing limits. So what is best, for her to be here with better support...
Diagnosis breast cancer - via a mammogram still cant get my head around it after my surgery and awaiting radiotherapy. It seems as if it has all been a very weird dream. People are the things I find hardest to deal with - some peoples reaction is horrendous - one of my friends screamed down the phone "oh my God I cant cope" - and family, my mother in law when I commented on how I was upset as I had recently lost a lot of weight and got quite fit down the gym said "well if you had been fat they might...
hi i,m a 57 year old former plumber and my story is probably similar to a lot of you here anyway here go,s
From january 2009 i was going to my gp and although he knew me i wasn,t a very regular patient the problem was a "sore throat" i was told and the usual course of antibiotics was given to me but after the 8th course i had to fight with him to see a throat specialist as i had feared the worst which turned out to be correct I won,t name any names here as im not out to score points this...
And so it begins........
The word Chemotherpy, I think carries as much stigma as cancer does. There is no getting away from this, no matter how you are introduced to this next redical step, it is going to be life changing. It can be swallowed, injected, rubbed in,or in my case fed directly into the body by way of a Central Line or PICC. Luckily there have been massive improvements in this since my father died from cancer some 25 years ago, even thought Chemo has beed around longer, in those day...
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