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..... Cheltenham hospital!
Like most places in the UK we've had our fair share of snow this past week (a bit more is being added as I type!) and travelling has been fun to say the least. On Monday a routine trip to Gloucester Hospital was called for. We dug our way out to the main road and proceeded in an orderly fashion to Gloucester. The main roads were clear of snow and other obstacles but not the hospital, unless we could disguise Mr Bad Fairy's car as an ambulance we had to make our way to...
Clive seems to be feeling a bit better. He is starting to get bored which is a good sign, and has been flicking elastic bands at me today to annoy me. The old Clive is still there battling to get out.
Off to look at new cars tomorrow. I strongly believe spending money is a great stress reliever!
New to all this blogging stuff and hoping that getting stuff off my chest will help. Sure nobody will read this, ranting is never very entertaining.
Tomorrow we go to see the lovely (though never has any good news for us) Professor. Our last visit, 2 days before Christmas was to find out if my husband’s 3 months of hell on Sutent had done any good, we wanted a 'yes it's great' or a 'no it's not worked', no shady grey areas please. However, what we got was. 'Well two tumours are the same' (good)...
Hi... where do I start? Joe was taken in to hospital with severe abdominal pain in the early hours of sunday morning. After several hours of no news (you can probably imagine what I was thinking) we were told that Joe has adhesions that have caused kinks in his bowel. Treatment is, morphine, NG feed and iv fluids to rest his bowel and hope that this is enough to put it right.... Fast forward to this morning. I met him at the hospital for his oncology appointment and, to cut a long story short, he...
And when I say we - I mean us, on here, cancer patients, carers and families.
I had an appointment yesterday with the Prof of Endocrinology to find out the results of last week's scan. My last scan was in May 09, after 6 months of chemo, and it showed some shrinkage which was good. But what had happened since then? I have been getting increasingly nervous as the time drew near, and for me that means chronic insomnia. And although I'd tried to put it to the back of my mind over Xmas etc, it never...
today i am missing my mum so much! i still get up every day and have to remind myself that shes not downstairs or pottering about in the kitchen! i went to the marie curie hospic the other day - where my mum spent the last 2 months of her life - to hand in a donation. it felt awful, seeing the people, receptionists, place where my mum had been! i just wanted to run up to the 2nd floor and see her! nothings the same without my mum here! i would actually give anything to have her back in my life. sometimes...
dad is coming home tommorow as nothing more can be done, so he is coming home to die with his family close by, hospital phoned yesterday for mum to go over as uick as she could , we have had this 3 times in last 10 days and he is still here, hospital phoned me as dad was asking for me so i rushed over to see him, he is so aggresive and abusive with the staff and also us at times as i think he is so distressed took 4 of us to calm him down and get him back in bed and he wont keep his oxygen on either...
ive been thinking of writing a blog for ages but not sure where to start , or how , so any ideas gratefully recieved,
As of today i get to spend more precious hours with my lovely hubby, as ive changed from working 41 hrs a week to just 18 hrs subject to change when we feel necessary, people all along this sad journey have tried to tell me what to do and ive ignored them , not the well meaning ones, just the ones who think they know it all , i have trusted my instincts and have done what i feel...
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