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Hi all
I had no idea about prescription entitlements for cancer patients. how many know about this and use it?
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Nl1/Newsroom/DG_174084
going to see my GP on wednesday. if i am entitled then i will complain to the hospital who have never said anything about it...i have been paying the usual £7.20 an item and have been asked many times to get bandages etc so i can redress the wound at home...
hope everyone had a good weekend
peter
Hi all,
Bit of a funny day today or maybe my expectations were too high. I have been to see my consultant and was hopeful that my CA125 had gone down after 2 cycles of Caelyx. It was 202 before starting treatment and now it is 234. "Oh ", I said "it's gone up!". "No" said my consultant, "A rise like that is nothing, it's stable". Previously, on carboplatin/taxol, there had always been a considerable drop and I suppose I was expecting the same this time....
Everyone keeps telling me about someone they know who got through this and is currently fine.Which is lovely and encouraging of course but it always turns out that they had a 'better' cancer than mine.Mine is HER2 positive,fortunately at least now. treatable to some extent with herceptin.But ,let us kid not, a nasty cancer all the same.Still, I know that it is not the only factor involved, and there are loads of stories of people surviving quite against the odds.I'm trying to stick to an organic...
Its three weeks since my beautiful sister passed away and i seem to be getting worse week by week. I want to burst out crying all the time. I'd only just started a job as a support nurse in the beatson oncology centre and had to go back this week. The patients are lovely and kept me going, but i am so gutted to see people going home, when i know my sister is never getting the same opportunity.
She had an infection and went back in for treatment, but we never expected this. I spent every day...
Monday morning and the start of another week, can't believe I've been away from school for five months, never had that much time off (apart from when the children were little), but finding loads to do and keeping very busy, have borrowed my friends teenage sons cross trainer which is hilarious to use!
Thursday takes me to see my Onc the lovely Dr. Bryant and bloods tests etc to see if I can have chemo number 4.
Am anxious not had Docetaxel before and having three cycles, just hoping not...
…….whoops! It broke. Who needs mirrors anyway? Any good friend worth their salt would tell you if you had a bit of greenery stuck in your teeth or if you’d dribbled your spaghetti down your chin. Picture this. Take one friendly but hungry hamster. Take one bag of hamster snacks. Put hamster and hamster snacks in a small enclosed space and let the hamster stuff his little podgy face. When he’s stuffed and has cheeks bulging with goodies, carefully remove him from the enclosed...
Well lets start with the result .... sadly after playing very well portsmouth lost but thats not the important thing,,, ill start with the night before ,
I heard my son singing songs from the lion king at the top of his voice in the bath ,it was so funny ,bless him , he was so excited he couldnt sleep , up at 7 am and breakfast had ready to go, i took some pics but dont know how to put them on here , but they are on my facebook if anyone wants to see them (jenni butler. west sussex ) i think , im...
It has been a couple of days since posting so I thought I would drop in and post an update.
The good news is that there isn't much to report. Sal is very fatigued and spends all day resting in her chair at the moment but that is the bulk of the effects of chemo 2 at the moment. This is pretty similar to cycle 1 which didn't go wrong until she started taking the antibiotic on day 5. This time the oncologist has said that she should not take any antibiotic during days 5-9. They feel that this is probbaly...
hi everybody!! ....I have never did a blog thing before so im just saying that im still on a wait n see and im doing well.
Hi I'm Elise and I am 23. I have never written a blog before but I thought it might help.
Ok where to start? When I was 13 my dad died of cancer of the oesophagus. It was hard and people at school never treated me the same after my time off grieving. Mum was my strength, we became very close like best friends. i move away when I started uni. I moved to bristol from hertfordshire. I graduated and found it hard to get on to a Post grad teaching course so I decided to become a nursing assistant...
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