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Final pre-op clinic appt Thurs 18.
Long wait & boss still held up when I was called in as a Fellow came in - asked about the patient experience so far. The ideal opportunity to praise the attention while there, but point out the stress of waiting at each stage, being misled about timescales etc. Registrar came in as well & got a brief resume!
CT & biopsy clear (effectively a 3 month check up) so all options open. Finally consultant appears apologetically as he had just been called to theatre...
Still good! Probs with bowels but have learnt that can go on months after op! been on holiday but cut short as had infections in teeth! course of antibiotics so getting better.Off to blackpool this weekend to chuck myself around on the pleasure beach.Yes dont say it but bloody nuts.One of my sons got great grades in exams so done well with worry of his dad this year.Other son still on the up with his acting!Return to work again tues to now do 2 thirds of my normal hours!
Hi folks, I haven't blogged for several months now, but I keep an eye on how all my Mac friends are getting on.
But now I'm hoping for some information - my elderly mother-in-law has low sodium and potassium levels (not cancer-related, as far as we know, but she has other medical problems). She has been in hospital for several days, is very confused a lot of the time, has little appetite and is on restricted fluid intake. It's hard to get there at a time when a doctor is around, and we can...
I am 24 years old and 3 months ago I lost my father. I have always been a daddy’s girl and was the closest person to him. People often described me as the apple of his eye.
My dad was always very fit and active for his age at 66 he was still beating people half his age at tennis. But in January he went from walking to a wheel chair a month later. At first we never expected cancer; we simply thought he had a bad back caused by a slipped disc. It was only until March 4th when we decided to go...
Copied over from another of my Blogs--
The Influence Of Appendages & Attire......Posted by johnoconnor
Hi Mate,
I have been there an have all the tee shirts - the hormones, the menopause symptoms and the RT - here if you need any thoughts or advice ?
Only thing that springs to mind - from bitter experience - is ask about RT to the Nipples pre hormone injections !! - Wish I had known about it - they get a bit - well ok very - sensetive lol
Cheers Mate
John
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Well its been a funny old day, got ready today for our 90 mile round trip for Tony's last chemo, just as we were leaving the phone rang..chemo cancelled till next week, bloods not recovered enough, ok says my husband, no problem, (the Y chromesone really working overtime here) he seemed to have forgottenthe fact that our daughter gets married next week!! I was firing questions at him to ask, he seemed hell bent on not letting me speak to them, did he ask any of the questions?.....No, I mean they...
Worried and fearful as to what the meeting with the Consultant would bring and after tossing and turning for what seemed an eternity,my wife eventually got up around 3am and spent the pre-dawn hours watching the hands of the clock as they relentlessy but so slowly made their repeating journey around the dial.
Tick by tick by tick.
Luckily I slept soundly and knew none of this until I made by way downstairs,refreshed and ready for the day's events, several hours later!
Shortly after...
Tomorrow Alan is due to go into hospital for a Vertebropasty and also a CT guided biopsy .
Then he is to have 5 session's of RT in about 10.14 days possible .As its pretty certain the mass by his spine is HL once again .
He had chemo in 2009 then RT in March 2011 when it came back so we are off to fight it once again now.So no summer holiday as he been poorly for last 8 weeks with a bad back which ,fingers crossed after this op will improve and he can get out and about again .
Some of u on...
Hi everyone
I was given the biggest scare of my life last summer when I was diagnosed with bowel cancer at the age of 29.
I woke up one morning in excruciating pain and collapsed on my bedroom floor I immediately rang my father and told him what was happening and he told me to ring for an ambulance. I was rushed to hospital and all the checks were done. Thats when I was given the devastating news that I had a cancerous tumour in my bowel an emergency operation was performed and I was in the critical...
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