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I'm new to this and have joined in the hope I will get some help and support along the way with dealing with this diagnosis and the treatment she is going to have.
My wife 52, non smoker was diagnosed in April with primary bilateral bronchogenic Ca, after a year of treatment for "adult onset asthma" both by the GP and a chest physician. After the usual tests, we have been told they are operable, but experience with managing primary Ca in both lungs is limited as it is uncommon.
She...
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Well it's now 2 weeks since I had my full kidney removed after a 9 hour operation, where I was simply told there were a few complications, I feel lost, alone, let down and depressed.
I was admitted to the hospital on the Thursday morning had my operation, sent to ICU then on Saturday simply told you can go home, that was it no information just treat like a piece of dirt by the nurses in the hospital, sent home with packet of paracetomol and some dressings.
At 36 years old, I just keep asking...
It's been difficult selecting what to tell family members.
Hubby doesn't have much medical know-how. I'm not always sure what he understands. He's been very supportive - saying it's my body & my decision. I explained that if I have a choice, I want to go for best odds for optimum outcome, even if it's a sledgehammer to crack a nut. He definitely doesn't want to think about the possibility of outliving me (even long term, let alone short term).
Sons have been given...
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It is now 3 weeks since the bottom dropped out of my world and I was told i had Breast Cancer. I've discovered that the fact that i have the disease doesn't particularly bother me, S**T happens, what I really can't stand is the lack of privacy.
I hate being poked and prodded and treated like a piece of steak, which has led to various medical professionals being treated to the rough edge of my tongue. So far I've chewed a new backside for Bob the Butcher (Surgeon) and Dr Crippen...
Now a week on after having my biopsy. Not nearly as bad as TURBT + mitomycin - no nausea or bladder cramps, much less swimmy head. Just need to build up stamina again ready for the next procedure.
Interesting the different assumptions & attitudes people have.
Many are surprised that I don't have any ongoing symptoms, so I make the point how insidious cancer can be & how important it is to have screening/act on any unusual signs or symptoms. I'll be going to hospital to feel worse not better...
My wife has had surgery, chemo and radiotherapy for breast cancer. She is now in her 2nd of 5 years on tamoxifen. She is having all the predicted side effects and she finds it very tough.
I find it tough too in a way. Because she doesn't want a physical relationship with me she won't touch me, or allow me to touch her. It hurts most when we are with other people and she is happily tactile and affectionate with them. It feels like I am the last person she would want to hug. I wondered how...
Sunday.
What a bloody awful day, woke up with a headache which just got worse and worse, just felt so unwell, was truly miserable, could hardly eat, couldn't even be ar**d to drink really, When Pauline came in to visit got her to phone my girls up & tell them not to come and visit. When I look back on it now think I just spent the day feeling sorry for myself.
Monday.
Unsettled night but awake about 4.30 & headache more or less gone, generally feeling much better, don't know if the fact...
I am in complete shock!! Last Thursday I received a phone call from the Mater Hospital saying they had received a referral letter from my Oncologist and that they wanted to see me on Monday!!
I went, thinking they were going to tell me why any further treatment wasnt possible, as this is what I had been previously told after all my problems last year.
The surgeon wants to do a 40% liver resection, removing ALL my cancer!! It is the same surgeon I saw last year before my health went tits up and...
Keep hope alive, living with secondary cancer 5 years on On December 2005 I was told I had cervical cancer stage 3B . My treatment was 20 sessions radiation over a 4 week period at 10 minute a day. 17 hours of radium rods. And 6 weeks of chemotherapy the drug I was on was called Cisplatin. I had pain in my lower back ,the consultant told me that due to the amount radiation I received .I had small fractures in my sacrum and I then had a procedure called somentolplast (a type of plaster in the...
I'm not sure why I feel the need to blog at this point - it is not something I find easy although I read other people's with interest. In some ways I still have not quite got my head around what seems to have been rather a 'whirlwind' of events since my not even dreamt about diagnosis - I thought I had another case of Mastitis when I mentioned to my GP that apart from the original reason of my daughter having made that appointment on 26 November for me - which was to ask whether he would support...
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