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Well it may be the the last 24 hours of 2013 but they have come and gone without much incident for me to report at all. Managed another half cup of tea for breakfast this morning, now feel a bit sicker than normal. I was told this recovery phase may have the one day forward and two steps back feeling but to be fair I don't think I can quantify or recognise a full step forward yet! Had a shock when getting into bath this morning as my lack of buttocks due to weight loss meant quite a heavy landing...
After that altercation with the nurse at the beginning of December, hubby realised that his not dealing with it all very well was causing me so much anxiety so he got himself together and dealt with it better which made it so much easier for us both. He said he put up a wall in his mind at the end of rt and was not thinking any further than that. That made it so much easier to deal with but now that finishes tomorrow I can see him start to worry about all sort of things again and his side effects...
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Well i have had a visit from my Macillan nures and she was unable to come up with any reason as to why they have missed this Cancer over the past year or so as they have been seeing me every three months for the past five years well it is too late for recriminations now we just need to get down to beating this new out break of cancer but in two places this time, I am at a loss too see why they are working on the neck cancer before the lung cancer as the mass in my lung is the largest...
Totally failed to live up to my promise to blog regular. on the plus side thats mainly because i am living life and havent the time albeit that includes multiple hospital visits.
But as we end 2013 (nearly) a good time to take stock. I am sort of well and unwell. Well in that mentally i have myself in a position where i am dealing with stage 4 by effectively living as normally as possible, i dont dwell on maybes and what ifs and by being at work and with two young kids and a semblance of a social...
With RT over I immediately go into the 'recovery phase' where I will overcome the side effects. I look forward now to the skin in treated areas and the lining of my mouth and throat healing first. I already feel as if I am ahead in this respect due to a mixture of factors - my discipline with routines, pre-treatment fitness, nutritional state and relative youth. The level of pain in my throat should improve rapidly as mucosa regenerates covering nerve endings. Mucositis or thick glue like sputum...
As I prepared to travel to southampton for the last of my 30 I looked into the mirror to observe what this treatment has done to me. Strangely none of it has been unexpected, and I am sure I have fared better than most due to being relatively young, fit and self disciplined. I have lost so much weight, evident around my saggy turkey neck, my gaunt looking cheekbones and eye sockets adding to the Halloween look of the 'Living Dead'. The redness of my skin to face, neck, throat and shoulder areas has...
D has been pestering me for a while now to choose my favourite song for a family project he is working on. So he was very pleased when I told him I'd finally made my selection and I was going to do a blog post about it this morning.
What he doesn't realise is that I'm in a mischievous mood this morning so he is going to have to solve a few clues.
The song was written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. It reached the Top 40 in 1965. The singer was born in 1936 in Harlem, New York. He was...
