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Took painkiller just prior to leaving the house this morning and by the time we got to the hospital I was anesthetized and wavering along the corridors like a soton student on a Friday night :-) MRI was uneventful as the nice man doing them was wonderful. We talked about the idle PET scanner which I found out was close to his heart, and the fact that it had been installed 3 and a half years back and the hospital kept saying no to employing ......three administrators...talk about criminal, as there...
Well, it's finally warming up in Ireland....though they say it's been warm for a few days - up here on the mountain you wouldn't know ... go down to the valley and it's hotter. Loads of rain and wind from 7 o clock last night, thrashing the TV ariel around and making viewing almost impossible...snow storm and noise time, all night!
Gawd knows what it'll be like on chemo, but I tell you something, I've already had a rotten ulcerated mouth and last night....well, I won't spoil your...
To just get a couple of messages from people that you love and people that love you, helps me to get this fight off the ground again. I've had so many messages here and by email and when I feel bad, I re-read them. Sometimes they only help me to remember that someone really does care, or at other times, they help me to get up off this fat ass and try harder.
To have people that you love dearly, is the most wonderful thing on earth. Some of these friendships are only a couple of weeks old and...
Nothing in life ever goes to plan really, does it? Now, having been looking at and chasing up a place to live from Estate Agents websites for Eastleigh area or Southampton itself, I am at a loss. Housing rent allowance will only be 460 for me - my son will never count as far as what they will allow me to have rent allowance for of course, so I can only go for a 1 bedroomed place, or a two if I can find another 200-250 a month from out of the sky, to pay for the rent each month.
Guess I've been...
hi everyone
ive finished my chemo about 4 weeks ago now but since a week past wednesday woke up and the tips of my fingers have been really tingling numbness and really sore i was on oxyplatin but after my scan following the last chemo they found small lesions on my liver had gone and larger ones had got decidedly smaller i am so pleased but now this thing in my fingers is so uncomfortable i just wondered if anyone can tell me whats going on is this normal or not???
im going to see my onc next...
Well we are now back in england... in a very very old mobile home. It was sooooo bad the toilet was falling through the bathroom floor, the radiators leaked every where and the boiler didnt work (nor the shower) lol. Anyway thats now fixed and life can continue. I've got my first appointment with the local onc team next monday, thats if they have translated all my medical notes by then! luckily france gave me all my scan discs etc so at least they've got pictures. I'm hoping cancer care is good in...
We went away in our touring caravan on Thursday to Seasalter on the south-east coast. Our son arranged it as his youngest daughter Pearl was celebrating her second birthday on the Saturday, in all about 20 family members from both sides came.
We had a great time, weather was wet and windy on Thursday and Friday morning but turned out lovely for the party. Upset a few people with the noise but why do they go to campsites that advertise families welcome, anyway a few extras stayed over night so there...
hi there everyone, was wondering if anyone has heard from mei on here, i always followed her blogs and enjoyed reading about her as she was so full of stregnth and vitality. i also liked listening to her music on youtube,
hope things are good for her and everyone else , keep up the good work of cheering each of us up x
O how things change from week to week, am back on the blasted rollercoaster and i really wanted to control that one, in fact i thought i was............
Have been home just over a week after my mastectomy and reconstruction surgery, the first few days i felt great i imagine it was because i was back in my own surroundings and i was relieved the surgery was over. I seemed to have veered between high low and very low all in the space of 10 days. Every morning i wake up determined to stay focused and...
got back from my singing tour very early on thursday morning at 5 in the morning!! and have been on the go non-stop ever since, hence not writing a post for a while!!! I went to switzerland in monetreux for the jazz festival where I performed twice with my choir!! It was sooo good being able to perform in front of such a large crowd at a major international festival!! I saw aloe blacc in concert as well as raphael saadiq and BB King, AMAZING. I partied hard and had the time of my life, my bank balance...
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