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Yesterday was a good day until the evening. Our son came and helped with jobs in the garden that take a lot of lifting and bending. I did the light jobs and the foreman bit. The sun shone and all seemed rosy until our son left. Then my wife had a very severe pain in her right hand that had her crying out and unable to do anything. I had to be her carer for everything, meal, washing, and to bed. We had no idea how to stop her pain but with pills and her favourite drink she finally fell asleep. I found...
My dad was diagnosed yesterday with oesophageal cancer. For a few months now he hasnt been able to eat properly and was having aches and pains in his lower back. He now has headaches aswell as being unable to control his left arm and leg properly. His scans are tomorrow and I can only think of the worst.
You never think this will happen to someone you are so close to. People talk about cancer but you never think it will happen to you. I dont know how to support him. Seeing tears in his eyes and...
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Just an update really, mum has had more results from her blood tests certain areas are dangerously high and they don't seem to know whats causing this! She is seeing her consultant on Monday and then in for a MRI scan on her spine. Be put on a week dose of steroids and due to some pain in her back they have increased her morphine.
I have asked to go with her for her consultation this time, hopefully this may help me understand a little bit better on what is actually happening at this moment...
Hi My neighbour who is in her 80's has been diagnosed
with lung cancer. She is waiting for further test results to see if it has
spread. She has been told they can't operate because she isn't well enough to
cope with surgery (and too old??). She has moved in with her sister who is also
very ill with cancer and bone problems. My friend has barely eaten for months
and is now avoiding having people visit and help. I have suggested that they
contact someone to come and help on a daily basis ...
I saw the oncologist today, referred back by my friendly urologist. I'm to stay on both bicalutamide and the injections of decapeptyl (I often get the spelling wrong and so do medical secretaries!). The logic is that the weeds will be attacked from two sides even though the injections were insufficient on their own.
PSA was up when tested last week, hope it comes down again just as fast. The oncologist agreed with his colleague that I should have a dose of RT to the weed that caused my fracture...
Hi,
today i had the second and last chemo (carboplatinum)
just before actually having the treatment blood as taken:
i am going to compare important readings to the ones taken before the first treatment:
HGB hemoglobin: 22/09/13 14.7 20/10/13 14.0
WBC white blood cells 22/09/13 11.10 20/10/13 7.4
NEUT (ANC) 22/09/13 6.9 20/10/13 3.9
PLT 22/09/13 239 20/10/13 320
Creatinine Clearance: 20/10/13 110 (serum: 0.78)
so it looks really good, due to all the natural stuff i have been taking and dieting...
It has been a while since I made my last post so I thought i'd do an update.
Things have actually been going smoothly, for the most part anyways. I told a couple of my flatmates about the whole situation and after 9 months my mum finally told my brother about it as well (family politics nightmare).
As of now, two of my flatmates are aware of everything the others, as nice as they are, don't need to know, but I'm satisfied about who I've told and what I've told them. I went back home two weeks...
Hi, I have been operated on for adrenal cancer at Kings College. It seems like mine was stage 2. They took the gland, tumour and lymph glands out, and nothing seems to have spread outside. The cancer gave me Cushings Syndrome, which my GP refused to believe for 18 months, even though I had all the symptoms.
I am now at home with a broken ankle due to a fall I had and the fact that the Cushings has given me brittle bones.
To add to that I already had Multiple Sclerosis, which I have had to deal...
So i'm in the shower with my partner (he's not The Great Big Lump btw) and i'm lathering up with my rather fine Molton Brown shower gel (warming eucalyptus if you like details) when I find it. The lump. Big. mahoosive really given the conservative size of my breasts (not complaining just saying).
I say to said partner, lets call him David because that's his name, have a feel of this,
Now this shower was not saucy in nature in any way. It was a joint shower due to us having a new...
