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Last month, Community News shared My cancer, my sexuality, me. – a piece written by a gent named David, which spoke about his diagnosis and its relation to his sexuality. David’s story made for an extremely honest and heartfelt read, so I thought I’d ask him to contribute another piece this month.
Fortunately, David recently underwent chemotherapy treatment which proved to be successful. His below piece covers difficulties and mixed feelings David felt following this news.
I should...
So I had all my scans and, at my consultant meeting on 15th April, it was confirmed that there is no sign of cancer anywhere else - yippee.
The decision has been that I need a mastectomy with full axillary node removal and reconstruction, only problem is the local NHS unit cannot fit me in for surgery until June - really????
Apparently, due to full lists and leave they are currently offering most cases surgery in mid to late June earliest. Thing is I'm already nearly six weeks post-diagnosis and...
Earlier this month, Debbie, our resident ‘Ostomate chef’, shared with us a little about her struggles and how she’s coped with eating following an ileostomy earlier this year, and an extremely nutritious ‘Super Green Soup’ recipe. This week she’s back to talk about how she reintroduced fruit into her diet, and shares with us two rather tasty smoothie recipes.
Enjoy…
Reintroducing fruit:
Eating fresh fruit has always been part of my diet, so it was something...
omg, time has passed and it doesnt rain, but it pours., not only was i diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, where the medication fu me up, My chrohns diseased flared up badl, and then I got heart failure ie atrial fibluation, fluttery heart, and fluid filled lungs. I am very slowly improving, but feeling very depressed, husband cant understand why im not gwetting better, and want to sleep all the time, and not eat.
stay tuned..
We were in the DayWard for a long time. Nurses came in and took bloods for different blood tests. The oncologist came to insert a bladder catheter. They put Paul on bag after bag of fluids. And they put him on antibiotics. I held Paul's hand, stroked his arm, stroked his forehead and spoke to him gently telling him that I loved him, that we were getting help now and that everything would be all right. . He seemed to be aware of his surroundings but too weak to actually engage with anyone or anything...
This one came to me at 3am this morning. I am not entirely certain if it was one of those crazy dreams - I guess we’ll find out if it makes any sense at the end!
The hypothesis: Life is not like a box of chocolates but instead is like “Playing Giant Jenga on a Travelator”
Before we start, I feel like we need a glossary:
- Giant Jenga - a game usually played in modern pubs - it consists of having to meticulously build a tower of large wooden blocks and hoping it doesn’t fall down...
It’s April, and with it Testicular Cancer Awareness Month. To recognise this, I thought I’d share with the Community a few positive stories, anecdotes and ‘words of wisdom’ from our Testicular cancer group.
Enjoy, and if you’ve been affected by testicular cancer and wish to share something, go ahead and do so using the comments section below.
“Good luck. Try to deal with one day at a time. This is a very curable cancer. The most important thing is that you must accept...
One of my favourite aspects of the Community is the fact our members can put any questions they have about cancer to one of our various experts through the Ask an Expert section of our site. Whatever your situation, wherever your location - you can simply log onto the Community and access support from a professional.
Want to know more about Experts who volunteer to answer your questions? Well starting from today we’ll be introducing a monthly ‘Get to know the Expert’ Q&A, where our Experts will...
It’s 3 years to the day that I was diagnosed with rectal cancer. I asked the doctor how long I would live if I didn’t receive any treatment, the answer was 6 months to a year.
So I’ve already had 2 years of ‘extra time’ and hopefully a few more. In that time I’ve seen my eldest son get married and I’ve now got a beautiful granddaughter. I’ve been on holidays both in the UK and Europe. I’ve been to numerous music festivals and camped. I’ve been determined that cancer wouldn’t change the...
Paul had to go for a further set of scans in early February of 2017. By that time he had been off Chemotherapy for almost five weeks and we were both concerned that the cancer might start to grow again if we didn't continue Chemotherapy soon. One week after the scans we had the appointment with the oncologist.
"The scans are the same as the last scans from November," he informed us.
We were silent. We both felt disappointed because we had so much hoped that the Chemotherapy would be...
