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Having some bone marrow taken - I wonder if there's any truth in it when the doctor tells you that some people hardly notice the procedure at all?
I recently went to have some bone marrow taken as part of assessing the extent of the NHL and this is how things went.
The during the time in the waiting room we at first started to pass the time by reading a 1998 edition of What Caravan, but soon we were distracted by the noises coming from the room where this procedure was taking place. The middle...
Since my retirement I have pursued a hobby that I have always wanted to do, tracing my family tree. This is the only thing at times that keeps me going - I get carried away for hours researching my ancestors & it takes my mind away from this dreaded disease.
Amongst many interesting characters in my tree, I have found a very distant relative who, at the age of 4 in 1856, journeyed from Bradford, Yorkshire to the USA after his parents were converted to the Church of the Latter Day Saints. His mother...
The first week of treatment was very difficult. Had nausea and felt sick, however after taking 2 types of antisickness tablets it helped me overcome. I have experienced pain and it has been a real learning experience in dealing with taking pain killers as I have always avoided drugs where possible. However I have had to overcome my fear of taking them - a fear of being awake but not being able to move. Am taking 30 mg codeine phosphate 4 times a day, 2 x paracetamol, and amitryptaline (taken mostly...
Just joined and trying to sort out how this all works.
hello,
im new to this site but i have been inspired to write this by the people on here, you know that feeling when you get diagnosed that you are so alone even with people around you? well that went away when i came on this site, there are some truly amazing people on her going through the toughest times you are all an inspiration. i would like to share my story, ive had a life changing year but we have had cancer in our family for the last 6 years now. my mum was diagnosed with bowel cancer about...
hi as some of you may know i was at my doctors last week due to me finding a lump and severe bleeding, well i was at my doctors again this morning about another problem i'm having, she asked me how iwas and if i had heard anything back about biopsy as nothing had come back to her, i explained that i'd heard nothing back and went for my MRI yesterday anyways she phoned his secetary and left a message. I got a call just after 12 today and all my doctor could do was comfirm that i do have cancer...
I wanted to respond to every one who wrote to me after my blog with my thanks to them all - in particular the lady called Sally who said "I feel like I've lost him already" and wow did that hit home - that's how I felt every day that he was already gone, already shrivelling away infront of me especially after the radiotherapy which was agony for him. My Counsellors said to me something that put it all in perspective "you are grieving while he is still with you" and that made...
Just a few months ago i was your average 22 year old, i was in uni studying for a marketing degree when i suddenly had a painful sore appear on my vulva. At first i didn’t want to go to the doctors because I was embarrassed, I knew it couldn’t be a STI as I have been with the same partner for over 6 years and was a virgin when we met. Eventually i went just because it was so sore I had no choice, then the integration began I spent weeks being tested for different STI and being told I had herpes, which...
i am trying not to be emotional about all of this. although i am allowed to be emotional that my father isnt here, right? the way he died, how he died, is still churning away, i push the feelings away and deal with practicality after practicality, i arranged his funeral which was one of the most difficult things, i have kept three complaints going, which feels like rubbing my head on a cheese grater. when will i have my time? my time to just relax and feel sad? i cannot allow myself to connect with...
My Bobbie, he seems to be getting worse. Was looking so well and feeling it when we went to Greece [on our surprise holiday]. He started radiotherapy had 7 lots and was getting more ill by the day. He kept telling them it was so painful, but they kept sending him back for more. Well he ended up in hospital, for 2 wks, after he could not take any more has lost another 2st in just a few wks, did not have it to lose. They have now stopped all treatment, one doctor has said they have given him too strong...
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