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Well only a week to go till my chemo and radiotherapy begins, life is plodding away as always, keep thinking i should feel ill, my family seem to think i must feel ill, but feeling good, apart from having been told i have cervical cancer and the emotional issues it has brought, life is good,
HI, My partner is a keen horse rider and is considering immediate reconstruction using tummy tissue. I wondered if any other readers have experience of this proceedure and the longer term effects that it has on tummy strength or tightness. Any info would be helpful at this stage.
20th september - well, today s the day!!! we off to james cook hopsital in middlesbrough at about 12 noon. trev will be starting the first cycle of chemo....3 cycles. we feeling positive.....he was terrified about gettin the trachy etc in...but he s not going into this scared!!! he s got such a positive outlook. god knows what todays gonna bring but like everythin else in this journey..we surely gonna find out!!!
im focussed into doing what i need to do to be there and to support him. love him to...
George (my husband) politely suggested last night that I should move the pile of stuff that littered the sofa - ready to be packaged `cos I had sold it on E-Bay - in fact he said he was frightened to leave the house when I was sorting out my clothes, in case I wasn`t here when he returned. My reply was `Who would have me?`
Back to the sofa - OK I know it looked a tad untidy but it was a work in progress so far as I was concerned. He sighed patiently and said it should be cleared - even if I dumped...
hi folks, thought i would just pop down a few of my thoughts, well as everyone does or tries, im just getting on with life taking it as it comes. ive loads of jobs round the house that i couldnt do before for 1 reason or another, so a couple of weeks ago i thought there are things that wont wait any longer, trees shooting up beside my boundary fence,fence needs painting,car needs work for mot,then the mot, then blow me, we had a problem with the water supply pipe to the outhouse, the garage roof...
september 18th and 19th,,,,, well in our story so far.....after all of the emotion of last week and finding our about intensive chemo etc startin monday, we have had a lovely weekend. we went down to visit trevs brother in rochdale which was lovely. they havent seen each other for few months..and never with the tumour lump and the trachy tube etc!! reckon it was a bit of a shock but trev actually looks so well it was a little easier for them both.
when we came home we went for a look out to our...
It seems a long time coming but i start work at the hospital tommorow ,i have wanted this job for so long and as i said to someone if its right it will happen , i am a firm believer in fate, so why am i so worried ? , im not sure if ive got the confidence to start again , ive been through so much ,and yes thats given me strength ,
Also im not ready to tell people im a widow ,its such a hard conversation but of course im still wearing all my rings and not sure if i can face not wearing them at work...
Carol a good friend on chat, has sadly lost her sister. Its been a very hard and sad journy. I just want her to know that all of us on chat have been thinking of her at this very sad time. Lots of love and hugs have been sent to you from so many. I hope today goes well, and will be thinking of you every step of the way.
love Jan xxxxx
hi everyone, not feeling so good today as peter is in pain with his knee ,not sure if the work he has been doing as done it or if its the C i know hes worrying i can see it in his face just had to put this and get it off my chest as he looks like an old man today hobbling around and thats not peter, love to all sorry for the moan ,jill
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