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Ever since diagnosis I have been up and down like a demented jack in the box. I told myself I would keep a diary so that I could keep a check on any new symptoms, when they started, if they were relevant or just a product of my fear. I've sat down at the desk with a notebook and pen ready to start many times then felt either silly at writing stuff down or scared that my family would find, read and either think me mad or be scared to death at the thoughts I have written in my book.
Perhaps a...
So I went through the slough of despond after chemo 4 as the veins in my left arm packed in and being left handed it was as if my world imploded. So the rest of the chemo was pumped into my right arm and I stayed home fighting the petty miserable side effects willing it all to be over.
Now Im back at school, swimming againand feeling human. I know the radiotherapy is to come but we are near the end! Hooray
My dad was diagnosed in June last year. It was a really hard thing to hear and made no easier as I as the one who had to tell my brother. A coupe of months later he had a big operation on his neck which we were told would take about 3 hours - so I was mentally pacing after 6 hours and he was still in theatre. The operation was complicated but successful and my dad spent a couple of days in intensive care before being moved onto the ward.
Once he had recovered sufficiently from that, he had 6 weeks...
On November 12th my mum was making home made pickled onions for the first time. She was boiling vinegar and chilli for the onions to go in. The smell of this made my dad feel yukky and this is when the cough first started. The cough carried on and everytime we prompted him to go to a doctor he said no as associated the cough with being because of the boiling vinegar. Then nearly a month ago my mum finally persuaded him to go as he was coughing more. The doctor he saw was not the usual doctor and...
