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Need a self indulgent moan today – this is more to get it out of me than have replies / kick the cat / moan at hubbie by the way. Well Mum will get her results in a week’s time and I having a wobble. Think it has been kicked off by chatting to another mum at school who’s a nurse (fatal talking to someone with medical knowledge at times).
Anyway I am just hoping things will be fine. Planning on taking my boys up to see her afterwards (thankfully all coincided with half term)...
Hello, I received my first dose of GemCarbo today and I'm feeling a little off but too bad, I'm just wondering if anyone has had or is having this treatment at present and how has it or is it affecting them??
Regards, Bloggerbill12
Hello - I am new to this. I need a "safe" place to put some structure and sense to my feelings and thoughts and I ended up here. My Mum was diagnosed with small lymphocytic lymphoma in August 2009. They (as in the medical folks she saw) had thought it was a bad cold, overactive glands, pneumonia and finally Swine Flu (that was whilst in France) and then it was finally diagnosed as cancer. It did not come as a total surprise as there was some nagging thought at the back of my head and I took some...
Hi All,
Just to let you know the lates - our christmas cruise was not quite as good as I had expected, and I ended up confined to the cabin for 72 hours with a tummy bug! I did manage Christmas day and New Year's Eve, but the bit in the middle disappeared. We got home and within 6 hours my husband got the bug as well, but worse than I was. Spent the next 2 nights in the spare room so I didn't catch it again.
I dutifully had my Ct scan 3 weeks ago, and arrived at the hospital today to find...
You wake up from your snooze....thirsty, peckish, and you need the loo....badly!!...
a few hints to make life a liitle bit easier...
A) lightweight kitchen trolley....these are a godsend, you can put all your stuff on....and only one journey from kitchen to setee... i got mine free from Nhs mobility because i also use it as a walking aid, so have a word with your district nurse...
things to put on your trolley.....juice/water and your meds....sandwich or biscuits...tv remote, book, mob phone....
I just need to have a rant!
I hate it how there's more bad days then good days now... On the bad days it's like, when am I going to have a good day? Tomorrow? Next week? Ever? You just don't know... but on those rare good days, it's like, just waiting for those bad days to come back - probably the next day. You're given that little bit of happiness, and then it's snatched away again.
Yesterday was one of the best days I have had since before I was diagnosed in Jan 2011...
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