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Looking forward to collecting my Dad from hospital on Saturday to take him home for 5 days before he returns to have another port fitted and start a new bout of chemo, hoping it has some effect. I know these times have to be treasured and remembered especially with the prognosis as it is and plan to make the most of every moment.
I certainly receive strength from people's comments and feel supported through reading about those in similar circumstances
Well mum' still here fighting on! Been told she will likely pass away this month due to complications caused by her cancer she' started having strokes and can now hardly talk and is out of it she can say some words though bless her and i think she recognises me:) I'm still not giving up though even if sj eis in one of those rooms on her own for the very ill peoole she is having fluid on a drip and I'm forcing her to have her oxygen don' want to give up on her but I know deep down this is it. Can...
Things do get better, this is my second week. I always tell myself, it is my responsibility to influence change around me. That is exactly what I have done. I stood up and fight for what I think is fair for me. I do not think is fair to treat people the same, these are individuals treat them so. Because I had cancer doesn't mean I am as vulnerable as a person next door. Talk to me to find out how I feel. I still don't think being diagnosed with cancer at an early stage is the worse news ever. To...
Preparing for cancer
Things I learnt that I hope help others I've listed below
Of course you can't prepare for those words you have cancer. It's like someone has punched you right in the gut and you are sinking to the depths of despair.
Picture in the sun me February 2016 in Portugal loving life feeling good.
Me a couple of months later during chemo treatment. Yes I look scary imagine how I felt but I got through it and now you would never know to look at me what I...
I suppose I always knew that this day had to come but however much you try and prepare it still hits you hard - like a punch in the gut. The hardest thing, as well as trying to get my brain round the fact that my Dad is unlikely to be around come Christmas, is that I am the support for my mum and my sister - everyone turns to me. They have done since the diagnosis and although this is fine, most of the time, sometimes it feels as though no one thinks about me. Not a great talker with regards to...
Hi everyone I'm just after a bit of advice please. My dad was diagnosed last jan 17 with colon cancer and it was in 6 lymph nodes out of 24.
He then had a total perm bowel removal and managed to complete 5 chemo sessions out of 12. He looked so poorly last year but he now looks the picture of health bless him.
We were all looking forward to getting the all clear from his first CT scan in Jan this year but his surgeon advised him that a tiny something come up on his liver?! The surgeon...
Its been just over 12 months since my Whipples Procedure. I cant begin to describe the anguish I first felt when I was given the diagnosis Dec 2016 of a pancreatic tumour at which point it was uncertain whether it was malignant or benign. I was advised that a whipples procedure was my best course of action.
I underwent a Whipples procedure in Jan 2017 and my suggested 2 week hospital stay turned into 2 months due to post operative issues including dumping syndrome and POTS, low blood pressure,...
I know now that the first 10 days after chemo, Prednisone will have me hyped. I must find ways of coping with that. I will put weighty thoughts in a balloon out of reach.
I am making preparation for the next round by:
Getting out of the house, choosing carefully my time, place, purpose. Yesterday I went to the grocery store. I had to stop and sit to rest twice. Came home. Rested. Getting out safely for me is a mental necessity.
Washing, cleaning.
I am using tea tree...
This was my first week back. I am always prepared for anything as I don't expect anything. What I don't understand is when people think because you had cancer removed your brain went with it. It is very upsetting to find just after two months off sick your competence in a job you been doing for nearly twenty year is in question only because you had cancer removed. What is going on in this world, people have gone crazy. With all that happening, I had a Grading in my Karate class on Wednesday. It...
