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I've mentioned that I play the ukulele. It's become one of life's pleasures. I have no formal musical training and it has been quite challenging to learn to play *and* sing at the same time.
I have a few songs on the go (learning and improving) at the moment, and one I love is Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah". I sing it in a gentle style at the high end of my vocal range and with a very simple ukulele strum... I think this suits the mood of the song. Here's a link to a recording I made recently...
I have finished tnbc treatment indec.2017.Had chemo,lumpectomy with all clear and radio.I was having Zoladex injections to shut down my ovaries during chemo.I was coping ok except the mental state.And I had my first period back last week.Even i am 40 we want with my husband a family so I have something to enjoy.The doctor say to wait 2 years but I want to take the risk.It means for me everything.If it comes back at least my husband will have my child.I was optimistic but i went to check my ovaries...
Hi my names Emma and I’m 26 years old, i was recently diagnosed with melanoma after having a mole removed off my ear... for the last week or so I have been suffering with constant headaches and am feeling sick all the time also feeling very tired.. I am wondering if any of this is connected? and if I should get hold of the hospital
When I went to the hospital I expected for them to discharge me I never thought it would be melanoma at the time I was in shock as I had gone on my own and had received...
Well I last updated 3 days ago and thought by now I would be feeling better, no, how wrong am I . When I said this has hit me harder this time it is also going on for longer. Previously I have felt fairly good as taking the steroids, finish them have a major meltdown for a day or 2 and then back to normal (well, as normal as you can be with this poison through your body).
Not this time the emotional side of it has JUST about subsided but the physical side is still well and truly there.
I have been...
Not even sure I have the right to post on here as my wife hasn't officially been diagnosed with Cancer and I have always thought that Macmillan was meant for terminally ill people .
But since they have found a "Lump" on an endoscopy to see what was causing her Anemia we have been dealing with Macmillan Nurses and Cancer Surgeons.
How do you "Deal" with it ?.
I have always managed to face everything that life has thrown at me and keep getting up and going forward, this news...
3rd post. Friday 9th March 2018 I attended princess grace hospital London and had a nanonife procedure done on my prostrate.
This was self funded as my insurer Aviva said that as nanonife is still considered experimental they initially would pay something towards the costs of the nanonife but that I would be excluded from claiming on anything to do with my prostrate in the future. Nuts They stated that if I self fund this experimental focussed surgery and excluded them from any associated costs...
On the 16th January I was diagnosed with stage 2a Hodgkin’s Lymphoma on my neck and chest. Back in September 2017 I was awake early one morning, my mind spinning about the day ahead and running through my to do list. Resting my hand on my neck, I felt a lump about the size of a 20p piece on the left side of my neck near my collar bone. I left it for a few weeks, as you do thinking it would go away. I was then having lunch with my friend who at the time was 6 weeks into her chemo treatment, also for...
Last Wednesday, 7 March, I had an appointment with the surgeon who carried out my neck dissection and bilateral tonsillectomy etc last August.
After a thorough examination and fibre-optic endoscopy up my nose (!), he sat back, paused and delivered the following words which are now etched in my memory...
"You are no longer a patient. You have fought and beaten cancer." Needless to say, I felt pretty emotional hearing that, but I am also realistic enough to know that the "cure" word only...
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I'm new to this post as I suppose never really thought I needed it. I was diagnosed with Cervical Cancer in Jul 2014 and had full hysterectomy in Sep 14 age 36. It all happened so fast that I didn't really think about it. I had a 10yr daughter to consider and just "soldiered on" while everybody else fell apart. Everything went smoothly and every 6mths I had a check up which was always clear and I took in my stride. Yesterday , I had my final check up and was told they were discharging me and no...
Please can someone help my dad is 84 he started with prostrate cancer which now has spread he’s had a catheter fitted was admitted to hospital was in for 4 weeks and was promised so many things yes he has someone to come in to wash and dress him but no McMillan care it is terminal with no treatment can someone please advise me what to do I feel as if my dad has just been left to die with no care
