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Have been for my pre chemo assesssment today. Asked me if I wanted to start this Wednesday? Hell Yeah!!!!!
Had an ECG, (with unshaved legs, whoops!!) and bloods taken. I have the most fantastic veins so hopefully getting the poison into me won't be a problem.
Lots of information to take in at once, took my sister with me as I would rather have her come and digest the information with me than my hubby, (straight in one ear and out the other.) Warned about lots of side affects, which am told...
I can't believe it's only a month since the fateful ultrasound scan - our lives have changed so much.
We have just completed chemo round one of a twelve week cycle.
Pain seems to be more under control at the moment and side effects from the chemo seem to be tiredness and nausea. We are hoping to be able to get out and about in the next few days.
On the positive side, we have an appointment to give notice to marry on Thursday, and we are doing a lot of frank and honest talking. I am so...
I do wonder whether I will be of any use here. My experience of Cancer is simply living with it smouldering in the background for a known ten years. Though it is likely I had CLL long before the diagnosis. I have no idea of what stage I am in. My last Consultant said. I should consider my blood counts as normal for me! It seems to do little.has infriltrated my spine, but again! Little awareness of its presence. My prognosis is that I will probably die with rather than from it, so it is between CLL...
We dinally have biopsy results and not good. Hubby has sstage 4 unknown primary but spread to other organs, inlcluding (just found out today - lungs and bones) liver, lymph nodes. He has spent the better part of the last three weeks in hospital for various reasons, was supposed to get out yesterday to celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving with his visiting family but ended up in intensive care with a respirator. This is so hard to deal with and has happened so quickly.
He is retaining fluids very badly...
Well originally I was going to write this every day, but life overtook me a bit.
Son's 18th went well but rather quietly. Blew money on a big LCD TV for him which I can't afford but what the ****.
Onc phoned on Saturday in a rather late response to the email I sent asking questions because we had been given no one to ask anything of.
The wonderful onc nurse at Frimley had already arranged for husband to be seen by an onc at St Lukes this Thursday morning so we now have a full week but...
Dearest Admins/better enlightened IT hands...
OK, I agree with most of the naysayers on the new site format but accept it's here to stay. Plaintive, but I suspect friviolous to most, request: whether it could be ANY colour other than "bile"???....
Anyway, knowing I am being an unintentional luddite...how do I send a reply if someone writes on my wall? My sole option appears to be "delete". I'm beginning to feel rude, guys....
Cat xx
All new to me. Mum has non-hodgkins lymphoma on her adrenal glands. She had been ill for a good few months - like a skeleton before she was diagnosed about 3 weeks ago. She had her fist chemo about then aswell but were called back to the Macmillan Centre on Friday to be told that it was more agressive than first thought and they would have to intensify her treatment and will be in hospital for her treatments and I don't know how I am going to cope with that. I know we are lucky as there is so many...
Sorry I havent been online for anyone who is a friend or been reading my blog. My laptop has been playing up at home so I think I finally got it resolved last night, at work at the moment and thought I would do a quick blog entry.
Dad was at the physio last Thursday and she confirmed that it is the tumour blocking the lymph node in his groin which is causing the fluid and swelling in his leg. His leg is massive, they fitted a compression sock for him to wear during the day. He was really sore after...
Just wanted to post here my mum's (Rita) second anniversary today, she died from lung cancer and just wanted to say that mum we miss you so much and even though 2 years have gone by it only seems like yesterday we were with you in the hospital, you were so brave, you never complained, you didn't derserve to get cancer again, you already beat breast cancer 22 years ago, you should be still around, me and Siobhon miss you so much and we know that you are around us, I would give anything for yo...
This blog is as much for me (it helps to write down everything we've been through) as it is for anyone else. If you're going through the same thing and any of this helps, then something good will have come out of our own experience.
Dad passed away peacefully at home on 6th Oct at about 1.30pm with all of his family around him. Although it happened suddenly, we were waiting all weekend as he was deteriorating so quickly. He had to be sedated heavily because he was so unsettled and restless...
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