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Hi I have been fighting NSCLC for 3 years now.I am undergoing treatment for the 3rd time the hospital have told me that this is my last treatment so i hope this works. I would like to know if people have had more than 3 lots of chemo?
....And its good news.
There has been improvement and is less "fluffy" (surley a technical term ;o) ) there are still areas of high grade tumour that he is now starting Chemo for 5 days every 4 weeks.
And all of his bad symptoms recenlty have been put down to coming off the steriods.
As the Oncolgist said "I can't send you away and say everything will be ok, but I am feeling positive about the out come"
Now he is desperate to go on holiday - which is a whole other story...
Good news from the consultant last night. Mum is regaining some control of her arm they now think it was due to a bleed?? not the cancer???
When I asked how she knows she stated that if it was the tumor spreading she would not regain control. So they have doubled her steriods to see if that helps. The consultant was very vague as to what caused the bleed as they haven't scanned her. I feel they are just guessing. This sure is a roller coaster ride of many ups and downs. We are now pushing for a...
Hello to anyone reading this. My mum started complaining of shoulder pain in September 2010 it was stopping her playing golf and it was really getting her down She went to the doctors and was sent to physiotherapy and given steroid injections for tennis elbow. The pain increased and mum looked tired and was sleeping downstairs in a chair. Mum had mentioned a small lump but no-one listened. Finally a family doctor listened and referred her to a specialist she had a biopsy and we were hit with the...
Today has been sunny and quite warm and it's St David's day - so why do I feel like I want to get into bed and stay there?
The reason? the extreme tiredness and joint pain that I have been experiencing since just after christmas, at first I thought it was the post Xmas blues. you know - that January feeling coupled with the continued cold weather, and maybe a touch of SAD, but as we got into February it got worse and worse, so on a routine visit to my GP practise for a smear test I mentioned...
How time flies when you are having daily treatments!
I'm glad to say that when the phone call did come from the Gp (the house was in chaos and my son was on the phone from his holiday in Florida, my next door neighbour had come to see my grandchildren and daughter who had come down for half term) it was to say that the Xray showed a minor chest infection, so she's put me on a course of antibiotics. Hopefully when I have the scan this Thursday they will have worked and it will be a true reading...
Things became very bad last Thursday, as mum deteriorated a great deal she now can't sit up or stand or eat unassisted. It was decided that she should go into the hospice. This is now Monday and she is still awake but hallucinating now and then. She keeps asking why my sister's dog is in the ward??
I have came back to work as sadly life has to go as usual, if things get worse I am closer to the hospice at work than at home. It's her Birthday on Friday so fingers crossed that she's with...
Hi everyone, my mother inlaw had breast cancer 14 years ago. She fight against it and was given the all clear. 5 years ago me and my husband move from abroad that we can spend time with her. Since i got here she wasn't eating well. She went of certain foods and lost in total about 5 stone. I kept on taking her back to the doctors but didn't get any explenation for the drastic weight loss. In 2006 she end up in hospital and was diagnosed with bone cancer. I couldn't believe it, i went for...
Last Friday afternoon I had my clinic appointment to get the results from my 4 monthly CT and MUGA scan. All is well and the oncologist was very happy and I am very happy. I had to see a locum consultant which always makes me nervous as I know they are qualified but they never really know you and your history but she was very thorough. The radiologists hadnt reported my CT but the pictures were up so she studied these against my previous scan and in her opinion felt there were no changes. She also...
morning everyone. it's the 1st of March and the sun is shining in bonnie dundee although it is frosty.
I had my first setback yesterday evening as i was sick for the first time. I'm not sure if its due to the yeuchy mouth or i think i may be drinking too much tea and water. That's another thing i'm puzzled about - I am a tea jenny and can drink it all day but i want to drink something else but can't seem to find anything. I absolutely adore diet irn bru but the thought of it makes me "boak"...
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