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Just thought I would keep a blog of mum's illness.
She was diagnosed with breast cancer through route screening and had her left breast removed approx 2 weeks later.
They removed 3 lymph nodes at this time and we got the devestating news about 10 days ago that there was cancer there also. She is hoping to go into hospital 5 October to have the rest of her lymph nodes removed.
I just don't know what is going to happen if there is cancer in the rest of them. How are we going to cope? What...
I had chemo yesterday. It was one of the more quieter days there. Seems like everyone was off for the day or busy or whatever, but I liked it. Gave me time to rest a bit and chat with my nurses. Wonderful women. Although one of them had a cold and was actively sniffing with a sneezr thrown in. That worries me, but it was an extra day she picked up for work so I imagine she felt compelled to come to work.But cancer treatment areas are no place for contagious disease...her manager should prohibit it...
I know this is completely off topic... but sometimes i find it really therapeutic to distract myself from constantly assessing, worrying, planning and get the old brain juices flowing with something thought provoking, this piece of text has stunned me each time i read it... the fact it is also poetic is always a bonus :)
i hope i havent revealed the secret hippy inside by posting this!
American Indian, Chief Seattle, wrote to President Franklin Pierce in 1854...
How can you buy or sell the...
Last night was a better night as Bert actually woke up for a while temp still down so he is beginning to feel better each day. He had another 2 units of blood and some platelets so I am hoping today he will not look quite so grey. And he also ate something do better news today
Teri X
I learned today that my friend is in a hospice and 'uncommunicative', probably a coma. We are 'estranged' as they say, do to a probably chemo inspired spat that involved old issues, that surfaced. Uncertainty=stress I've learned.
Devastated, I got the news from Canada's social services, as they were prob trying to figure what to do with her kids. I'm still unsure of what I can do, if anything. Watching my neighbour's kids grow up has been like watching a trainwreck, in...
Well..ive just updated my profile...im no longer 49...im 4010...sounds much better...not spending my birthday as id planned...having my 2nd cycle of chemo today....but i had a fantastic night out last night with my sisters n the girls from work....they made me cry...got loads of lovely cards, flowers n gifts...n wen i got home my lovely daughter in law had decorated the house inside n out with ballons n 50th birthday banners....my sisters are insisting i wear a big 5-0 badge n theyre tying a balloon...
been dianosed nearly 3yrs but only just joined site theres so much to look at.
so many people in same boat makes me wish i joined sooner.
im no good at typing 1 finger at a time sad or wot, still getting used to texting
I didnt go to work today. Have only been back 3 days but I couldnt face it. I cried all day instead. I did call in on the friend yesterday evening and tried to talk but I knew she wasnt getting it so I gave up. In people's efforts to help, try and make you feel better and NOT say the wrong they, they desperately try to clutch at straws and say positive things which really dont help. I just want someone to listen! I know I sound really horrible and ungrateful which I am not, at all, I do understand...
I had a hip replacement in 9/08 and was diagnosed with NHL in 8/09, by which time the tumour, located close to the hip replacement, was >10 cm. Does anyone know of a similar 'coincidence'?
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