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Hi this pic is my son dark blue shirt and the lad who shaved his head in support of my hair loss last year i have the greatest honour to call him a friend x
last night i had my first adult birthday party ever at the tender age of 43 surrounded by the people who love me and i love in return after the crapping year that was 2010 and all the interesting things i found out about some friends and more about what i found out about myself i just thought sod it why not and it was a fab evening much love to...
hi guys
as you probably know have had the last few days since my chemo well 12 actually feeling rough so i was wondering if anyone else had the following symptoms
as i am on oxyplatin intravenous and capecetabine tablets this time the tingling and coldness and numbness in the lower half of my legs and feet have been so unbearable no matter what i did just couldnt get rid of it did try hot water bottle on them rubbing them socks everything it has only now eased off a good bit but has lasted ten...
Great day today - Doesn't sound much but we went to Julie's mums for dinner. out of the house for 4 hours, 30 mile round trip by car, no nausea !!!
Fingers crossed we can have a few weeks of stability
Sorry haven't been on in a while having problems getting into my files it keeps coming up with error messages so sorry to anyone if you have been waiting on me accepting your requests. Story so far is hubby is about to start 3rd chemo cycle on Tues and the info we have so far is that there is no sign of the cancer anywhere else so the chemo hopefully will get rid of any stray little buggers that have managed to escape because it had spread to the nodes in his groin but has had all of them removed...
Hey,
I am caring for my mum who has throat (tonsil) cancer. She was diagnosed in Nov 10 with stage T2 N2 M0 which i believe is stage 4? Nobody ever did tell us the stage other than the TNM.
When mum was diagnosed they told her that as she doesnt smoke or drink that her chances of it being cured were around 80%. As much as i wanted to be happy i wasn't sure that 80% could be accurate as the cancer had spread from the right tonsil to the lympth nodes on the same side of the neck. They took out the...
Things have been a lot better the last few days. No Nausea, the odd small vomit, but nothing to worry about - usually the result of a coughing fit. The cough is easing up though now - the antibiotics must be taking effect.
It shouldn't be too long before we can get out again - out of our prison and into some fresh air, maybee visit some local friends.
hi everyone!!!
well here i am again guys i have since my last chemo turned into a complete moaning minnie because i have had the last ten days feeling like absolute crap!!! i do know that some of my friends on here have said that as you go through it every session you can have more severe symptoms well mine sure came from the depths and bit me right on my arse bigtime this last time to the point im so dreading no 4!!
now anyone who does know me knows im very partial to my food and YES ive been...
Hi Everyone, It has been a while since i last blogged but i check on here regularly to see how you are all doing.
Things have been hard the last few months, in 3 days it will be 8 months since i lost a beautiful amazing man, my hero, my dad.
I am coping okay you have to with kids don't you? Things have been tough at work thought, i work on the renal ward but it seems every few days we seem to get a patient sent to us with cancer. Yesterday i was dealing with a patient behind the curtains and...
Hi all, third chemo next wednesday will be halfway through yeah! I mainly feel really good even though lots of people keep telling be it will get so much worse, not very helpful and obviously we are all different, still make the most of feeling good and doing lots incase things do change. I even love my wig, my hair has thinned but no bald patches yet so hopefully the coldcap is doing its job. My wig is so much easier than my own hair I think I will probably moan more when I have to go back to washing...
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