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Wishing for prayers or luck or thoughts... whatever you believe. Signed off some papers to release my pathology slides from May to be sent for further testing... almost felt like signing for a house. These tests will determine wether my cancer cells over express themselves causing them to mutate. It will be about a week before we find out the results and the results will determine which trial we qualify for. if this is the road we go down I'll be spending 2 days in the first day of March in detroit...
Been a good 12 months or so. Celebrated my first year of being back full time at work - after being out for all of '09 - last week. Been charging around flat out and am loving it.
Had to request to pull ahead my latest check up at Papworth due to some nagging discomfort over Christmas though ... and suffice to say the lurgy is no longer lurking in the shadows. Not the main nasty this time - but his little friend is up and running - so looks like it is play time again ... Just a little poke in...
Ive just had breast reconstruction a trans flap has anyone else had this done feeling very sore
well i went away for the weekend to bournemouth....... first time i have been out and about without my hair since i shaved it off ...to say i was apprehensive was an understatement so i packed my wig and my hats and scarves didnt leave much room for anything much else but had to get my priorities right lol!!!
spent nearly two hours on saturday morning trying to get my make up just right remembering the tips from the girls on here....... accentuate your eye make up !!!! luckily ive always been one...
Well, another weekend is over, and we are in the week of blood tests and hospital visit to see if the treatment no 3 is ok for next week. I know this treatment is supposed to be milder doses, and the first week, apart from feeling tired I am ok, but now I start having niggles and to feel that the chemo is wearing off and not doing me a lot of good. My hair has fallen out(or most of it). My nurse was supposed to be sorting out my CT scan for after next weeks treatment, but I still haven't had the...
please can anyone help, i was diagnosed with secondary peritoneal cancer in 2009 suspected primary ovarian cancer but couldnt detect tomour,i finished chemo in jan 2010, had regular check ups with oncology and gynae every 3 monnths, please note not even secondary was picked up on ct scan was only found after pathology for an emergency op on bowel. c125 level was at just 19 end of oct 2010 although ct results wernt avalible, i had a call week later asking me to go n see gynae consultant who adviced...
Hello again. Back so soon? Well I actually wrote the other blog a few days ago, and posted it today. But since I wrote that other stuff has happened which I thought was worth sharing with people - and even if nobody is interested, it helps me to write it down. :-)
My first thought on waking every morning is... "I have cancer", and then I touch the left side of my torso and think about this alien presence inside me. And then I think "Why me?" followed by "It's so unfair!" etc. etc....
Diagnosis - I'm a 43 year old female. I was diagnosed with stage 2 kidney cancer 5 days ago.
My story actually begins in November 2010 when I had my gallbladder removed. At my follow up appointment 4 weeks later, I complained that one of the wounds was painful and was booked in for an ultrasound scan for January 2011. The ultrasound showed that nothing was wrong with the wound, probably just scar tissue. About to get up from the bed, the radiologist put his hand on my arm to stop me, and told...
Hello everyone
Feeling very well the sun is shinning i'm just home after a weekend away with my nearest and dearest and visiting relatives some shopping done where i picked up the most important dress of this year for me ,my mother of the groom outfit happy days.
Lifes next step back to normality tomorrow (what ever normal is ) i'm returning to work only part time to start but its a start i have my check up with the ocologist on thursday and i'm not freaking out yet !
sending much...
I have just got back from a week in Disneyland paris and all I can say is it was fantastic. We all had the most amazing time and really didnt want to leave. I for one am absolutely shattered as we did so much all day everyday. We have been before but my younger 2 children were only 1 and 2 at the time so they couldnt remember any of it. It was March 2006 and it is also where my husband proposed to me, in Cindrellas castle. No surprises this time, just a wanting to return so everyone will remember...
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