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My platelets were back up so cycle three could go ahead on Tuesday. It was a bit of a shambles in the clinic and I'm glad I was on the ball and kept asking questions as it could have turned out quite differently.
For my 10am appointment they were already running an hour or so late. I was due to take a new anti-sickness Aprepitent an hour before the chemo so I asked about this the minute I sat down in the chemo suite just after 11 even though they weren't ready for me even then. Just as well...
The home care assessor called yesterday to offer us a care package for mum, the visiting times from the carers would be 11.00, 1.00, 6.00 and then 7.00 p.m. what the hell are we supposed to do with that?? That would mean my mum lying unable to move in her bed from 7.00 at night until eleven in the morning?? I have told Fife Council to get this sorted. I have a feeling they are dragging their heels hoping my mum will pass away in the hospice. The family are so stressed my sister was in tears.
My...
well tomorrow i find out when chemo will start but first i need an echocardiogram got that tomorrow too hope my heart is fine cause they tell me chemo effects your heart
well i went into work to day from 11-3.30 and did well but boy am i tired now. can't say i did much work as folk kept coming into the office to say hello but i was there!! i also had to try and read 1500 emails!!!!! needless to say most went unread.
im going to take a rest tomorrow but have the doc on friday so will go in again maybe from 10.30-2 ish. feel that if i can get in well why not.
hope everyone else is doing well and not having too many problems.
love and peace
Tracey
xx
My wonderful partner was diagnosed with bowel cancer in July 2009 (aged 45), a week before our daughter was born. He had a sub-total colectomy (no stoma needed) and distal pancreatectomy, followed by XELOX/CAPOX for 8 cycles, a small liver metastasis was removed along with his gall bladder in Feb 2010. We were then told the cancer had gone and only a very slim chance of it returning.
When he went for follow up scans in July 2010 his pancreas was glowing and his CEA and CA19-9 had gone up, so more...
hi i am new to this site, my sister has been diagnosed with cancer, she has had a tumour removed weighing 7lb from her stomach and has some left there . she is having 6 sessions of intensive chemo, she had her first session last friday, was great on the saturday. but been very down and weepy ever since, i don't know what to say to her to make her feel better. do i skirt around the illness and talk about anything and everything else or what? its even more difficult as i am in leeds and she lives...
All the women who suffer from localized type of breast cancer are treated either by lumpectomy surgery, radiation technique and tamoxifen. But according to the researchers, the most effective is lumpectomy surgery. The women who undergo only lumpectomy surgery are considered to be alive for more number of years than the others.
But according to a study it was found that whatever be the treatment, among the 2,000 women studied, approximately all were likely to die from other causes apart from breast...
Hi, i have been checking out this wonderful website for a while now.
My poor dad aged 76 has already gone thru jaw cancer, had surgery,chemo and radiatherapy to cure it just over 3 years ago, he has now unfortunately got cancer of the oesophagus. He had a stent fitted a couple of weeks ago and also just had a pet scan. Results came back yesterday.
We were told that he also has secondary cancer in his lung.
He isn't being offered surgery as it is advanced cancer and has been told that after discussion...
thi is whats in my dads file about his bowel cancer... ther specialist dosent really explain so we went and read the files so if anyone can shed some light many thanks
Metastatic sigmoid carcinoma
numerousliver metaustasen in all segments of his liver. He has scattered lung metastases. his primasy lung recto sigmoid carcinoma is a tight and irregular. stricture with pericoloic fat suggesting T3 disease. Palliative chemo to be given.
any help with this would be much appreciated
thanks
I would be really grateful if anyone else out there has been diagnosed with peritoneal cancer and had chemo can tell me how they are coping with it. Since my chemo treatment finished on 30th Dec 2010 I feel lost and lonely. I have been trying to find a cousellor in the Milton Keynes area but so far no luck! It doesn't help that there is only limited info on the web and makes grim reading for the potentailly limited future with this cancer!
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