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quick question guys.....mums been really ill lately and they say she has fluid on her stomach. something about ppl with cancer can loose fluid throught their stomachs??? they have given her steroids but i dont understand how this is ment to help with this? some one said something about it shrinks your organs a bit to allow more room for the fluid. Is that how it works? just seing if any one else knows anything bout it. thanks guys x
My husband had his first cycle of two drug chemo last month, and had some nausea and tiredness, but apart from two days felt well enough to carry on working and was quite impressed with his reactions. It is a two week cycle, with one chemo drug being given IV immediately on day 1 and the other drug being infused through a portacath for two weeks and then two weeks chemo free. By the end of the second week of being drug free, hubby was much like his old self, apart from being bald that is!!
Cycle...
Well I haven't been to MacLand for a week so I hope you are all as well as can be expected and that you have had a good week. There are some of my friends who I know have not had a good week and you are in my thoughts. Special love to AnnFran and Nev.
Where to start. I think with the nephew's birthday party!
His actual birthday is Halloween but his mother decided to hold his birthday party on the 28th October as Kyle would be back at school on his birthday! So Mumsy and me duly set off for...
Firstly, I would like to apologise that as you know I can write pages just on one morning... this is the whole week so that means a few thousand words are needed.... sorry. I did think I should go back and delete a chunk but I don’t have the energy so I have packed off St Bernard Bernard dog with his Brandy to trawl the blog for casualties or boozers... hope you cope. I would recommend you skip to the bottom and just say Hi... (and please don’t tell me off cos I know already...) So... off we go....
Well DeJe-Vu maybe, seem to remember a similar one from last week, well maybe, but a new slant on it OK ?
Its not hard to confuse me these days, do find it hard to get to sleep some nights, doing good but a lot of thoughts running through my head and find writing them down does help me get a handle on them and get off to sleep. Started off on one track I thought, then found other thoughts were interlinked so here goes, hope I confuse others less than I confuse myself lol.
Ok a bit of reassurance, every...
30/9/11
My darling daddy is disappearing in front of my eyes and there is nothing I
can do about it.
Yesterday was truly dreadful, dad was a bit moody in the morning but nothing
bad so mum went off to work at about 12 she got a call from our lovely
neighbour to say Iain Rennie were outside and getting no answer should she go
in so mum said no she would call, called three time no answer so called back
and said yes please go in.
She went into find dad stuck half on and half off his bed...
I wanted to speak to a doctor while I was at the Hospice today had some questions playing on my mind and needed a few answers. Are we prolonging the inevitable?, Did Mo run a higher risk of having a cardiac arrest?, Was there any limitations on morphine dosage? amongst a few other questions. Normally speaking to a doctor wasn't a problem because there were always at least two doctors floating around somewhere in the Hospice and access to them was easy,you could talk to a doctor anytime. Once you...
Was back at Queen's today to see the hearing specialist. After a audiogram I was ushered into to see the man himself adter my huge hospital folder wouldn't fit in the rack by the door and it fell oon the floor scattering my medical history asunder.
The docotor had a look in my ears - looked at my audiogram and asked me if I have any hearing problems. Yes - can't hear the TV. Can only use the phone in my left ear but the biggest problem is a hearing aid might stop my wife moaning at me! He...
After a long stresful day at work witch have followed a week of bad days i have come to realise that i am still not coping, like every one else i have good and bad days. But it seems the last two weeks in paricual have been very bad. i cant really explain now i feel the only thing i can think is i feel like i am falling and there is nothing there to catch me. i am scared when i hit the ground what will happen. mums been particually ill the last few weeks and i have spend some more time with her witch...
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