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Right so feeling like a rant to finish 2011 . At the start of December I had a lump removed that has been there for well over a year. I have been to the doctors/hospital about it several times and after scans have always been told its just a lipoma a fatty lump, nothing to worry about and certainly don't need to remove it! But something has been niggling away in the back of my mind so I went back to the hospital last summer and they agreed to remove it. I had it taken out at the start of December...
Christmas & moving house has been a great distraction however now I am left thinking about what is happening and finding it difficult to not break down. I have so many questions again but the one, the main and most important one is when will I know if they got it all, and if it has spread anywhere else. Trying to organise life post op is quite stressful but I do have amazing friends who have stepped up as I only knew they would. Still, I am utterly terrified of what comes next and can't stop...
Just thought I would write an update as I have been absent from the site for a while.
Well Christmas was not as bad as I thought in some respects. That said, the B&B was shocking and totally unsafe so I checked straight out again. I was so poorly with awful sickness that I went to stay at Parents house. Think they were shocked to see how ill I was after not visiting or having bothered to make much contact since I became ill. I think it did them good to see me like that really. That said they still...
Which is not a good idea at the moment...cos if I cry, I can't breathe also....!! bloody lungs...
Just a couple more days and I get the permanent drain in....so hopefully, that taste from hell in my mouth wll go......and i can start eating normal again.
weighed myself yesterday and i'm just about holding onto 7 stone...so not bad I suppose.
Little and often seems to be the way to do it, I have those fortisip drinks but they taste like shite now...
I've been indoors for a couple of weeks...
Hi I wondered if anyone would be able to help - I received a phonecall this evening from my friend who is in Poland at the moment visiting his mum who is suffering from cancer. Basically, he has been told by doctors there that they have exhausted all the treatment options, and he phoned me to ask if I would know of or could find out about any further treatment options that might be available to his mum in the UK.
Both my friend and his wife are Polish, but live and work in the UK (in Glasgow).
...With the Sun in my face, the shadow I cast does not trouble me.
It is where it should be, behind me.
I look forward, to my future, and I see no shadows.
When I do look back, I know where I am, for I see where I have been.
As my horizon gets closer, and the Sun begins to set
The shadows behind me get longer.
I am small in this World, but as I grow older I cast a bigger shadow.
Perhaps the setting Sun flatters me . . .
At my horizon, all is behind me, all is in shadow.
Looking back, I see them
Emerging from...
Day 15 of the chemo today, and the last infusion of Cycle 1.
It’s been pretty much plain sailing so far, but the first
overt side effect looks like it’s starting to appear – a gentle tug on my hair
results in a good pinch of follicles coming away – so I’m on the way to joining
Telly Savalis, Yul Brynner and Vin Diesel as a baldy.
So time to shave it back, but I’ve decided to have a Mohican
for a day to celebrate my hair whilst it lasts.
I don’t know if subsequent...
My 43 year old extremely health conscious, fit and active husband noticed at the start of October that he had some rectal bleeding which he ignored for 2 weeks - when he casually mentioned this to me I insisted he go to out GP the next morning - he done this and was referred for a sigmoidoscopy on 28 October - he was told at this procedure that he had Chrons Disease, they also took some biopsies, and he was started on a medication which made him very unwell - he lost a stone in 2 weeks - he...
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