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My wonderful husband has just got me home from a most fantastic break on a canal boat on the river Thames. The weather was good to us, my two labradoodles came along, so there were lots of walks to little village pubs for dinner and some wonderful wildlife to watch. Kingfishers were the winners of these last few days and seeing my hubmeister relax for the first time since my diagnosis.
It has made me realise that he really is taking it all on his shoulders. We were running our business together...
Today I met up with a very good friend who I hadn’t seen for a long while and we went for a lovely meal, it was great to do something very normal, and feel good about it.
But it also brought up a lot of painful memories of the cancer, the diagnosis and surgery and the long road I travel to recovery. But I felt good to really open up about everything and it also gave comfort to my friend who knew I was getting very sick before diagnosis and was also one of the first people I told after my...
I can remember finding the lump. But I wasn’t a regular checker of my breasts.
I ignored it thinking it was a time of the month lump.
But within 4 weeks I was feeling this lump several times a day. In fact I made the lump sore.
I was convince it was me feeling it so much that had made it more of a thing almost like I’d bruised myself.
Never in a million years did I think it could ever be cancer as cancer isn’t really in our family history.
Eventually I went to the doctors alone...
Beginning at age 5 I have had spinal stenosis
My time from 5 til 22 was spent learning how to deal with it
Without any medical or other help or support
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Spinal stenosis in lumbar and cervical spine
Sciatica in lumbar and cervical spine
Degenerative disc disease (DDD) in lumbar and cervical spine
Spondylolisthesis in lumbar spine
Carpal tunnel syndrome
Pain in hands, arms , legs and feet
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Asthma
Sleep apnea and central apnea
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Dilated Cardiomyapathy (EF =5 in 2007....EF=45 now)
PVC ablation in...
It’s been about 3 years since my RT ended now. last post I mentioned a little patch of osteoradionecrosis on the inside of my jaw.
A quick google gives the following definition-.....
Osteoradionecrosis is bone death due to radiation. The bone dies because radiation damages its blood vessels.
Osteoradionecrosis is a rare side effect that develops some time after radiation therapy has ended. It usually occurs in the lower jaw, or mandible. The lower jaw is at risk of osteoradionecrosis...
This post is going to be short and, if not sweet, then I’ll aim for mildly amusing. I may fail on both those fronts.
Back in January (it’s all back in January) as part of my pre-surgery diagnostics I had a MRI and more details on what entailed can be found in my post here. I met with my consultant and he told me that my PET-CT and MRI showed lots of cancerous activity in my cervix. Awesome. The words every woman wants to hear.
But they performed surgery and I entered the world of being...
So, I think my last chatty blog post was about London. Well, since then I've been to Paris for a weekend, headed South for a week to a wedding, and then flown off to Munich for a week for Oktoberfest!!
Paris was a 20-something bday present from my aunt that I'd not managed to take up until now. Either with my work, or treatment,or her schedule - something always got in the way. But I finally made it over for a hectic weekend. Got there on a Friday, went to the hotel for a lie down, then off...
Hi every1 my mastecomy on the 16th October went really well and I am coping really well with the operation but it's the waiting for my results from the operation that is driven me crazy I know the operation cut the cancer out but I have never been told what stage I am this is causing me so much anxiety they said the tumor was small less than 2cm nut had slot of calcification this is why I need a full mastecomy I also no I'm het2 positive er positive and also 8 /8 can any 1 help the consultant...
Today I had my first bath since the operation, two weeks ago. Apart from a shower at the hospital I've been strip-washing. I've been scared to get in the bath. Today I braved it and it was no problem at all. In fact the whole thing has been much easier than I could possibly have hoped. I'm not out of the woods yet, I have to see what the histology from the op comes back with. I'm hoping for an all clear but if not I'll deal with it then. For the moment I feel good and pretty healthy and very, very...
