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Everybody is aware of the dark, pain and grief that all cancers can bring. Mine is an experience of hope and humour. Having lost a close friend in 2013 I decided a few months later to get a check up. No reason , just thought maybe I should. The results were an aggressive prostate cancer of my own. The roller coaster ahead was never up to me.If it was a high or incredible low was determined by results and decisions made primarily by others. What I found I could control was my approach.
I have created...
Wow what a year and oh how my life has changed in that year. I finished treatment in May and was drained following surgery for breast cancer last September followed by chemotherapy and radio therapy but I was determined to get fit and move on. I returned to my yoga class (well not quite the one I used to do it's slower paced but yoga none the less), joined a gym ( never in a million years would I have believed I'd do that a year ago) and I swim twice a week. I still have mobility issues with...
Back in hospital as an outpatient. 9am blood tests taken. Good news the nurse says we can go ahead. A few minutes later the oncologist comes in to say that my liver levels are a bit high so he's only giving me a half dose of the first drug. The next two drugs go through and everything seems to be fine. I've even eaten the lovely packed lunch that my friend Miranda has made for me. The nurse hooks up the 4th drug which comes with its own pump and takes 24 hours. I was preparing to go home but when...
Hooray for today ! apparently my FSH is now what is expected of a woman of my age and menopausal state, so there is no need for the ovary suppression or removal. I didn't realise it but I have been quite anxious about it all. Herceptin no 16 tomorrow (27th Sept), Muga scan next week, hopefully all will still be good, and then Herceptin no 17 and 18 to come, and then last proper visit to the oncologist on the 19th December - the end is now in sight!
I won't miss a lot of things about going to...
It's such a luxury being able to do everything again:
Wonderful and for the moment, I'm taking the normality of life much less for granted.
My watery eye worse first thing in morning. Hasn't been evident for much of time.
Having just looked up eye anatomy: my lacrimal gland...
My bed is arriving on Wednesday. It will be strange. I haven't had a bed for years. In fact I'm trying to remember when I last had one. I suffered for many years from depression, anxiety and PTSD which resulted in a very unstable life. On the cheaper end of private accommodation, I had to move often. I never had the money for a bed. I sleep on the floor on a thin memory foam mattress at the moment. I didn't mind because I have a bad back and the floor was better for it than an old secondhand bed...
I've often contemplated what friendship is and what it means to me, as a child I lived a fairly insular life, my parents never had their friends to the house and I never had friends over to play, we were encouraged to join clubs and after school activities but the people I met were never welcome in the family home, and yet my mum in her younger years seemed to be rather a social butterfly, she maintained a relationship with those she met at university for 60 years but only by letter, since her passing...
Turned up at the hospital at 9am for my second chemo session. Unfortunately, my leucocytes were too low so they couldn't do it. I got an injection to help increase them and I have to inject myself Thursday and Friday. Have to go back on Monday so, hopefully, it will be alright then. Feeling quite disappointed. Who'd have thought they'd ever be disappointed about not having a chemo session? How strange life is.
Be Brave. Even if you're not, pretend to be!
