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Ok - dear wife drove with me to hospital and stayed all day - always good as she asks all the awkward questions
Sonia our nurse was excellent in explaining how the day would pan out and all the components of the treatment
She took her time to decide on my best vein (must be good as no bruising today) and hooked it all up. The retuximab took hours as it goes in so slowly so as not to cause problems- gradually speeded up - must have taken 4 hours? But no problems at all. She put my arm on a...
I'm pretty concerned. Had sore throat for seven weeks since operation for breast cancer. When I looked online it said it could have been caused by anaesthetic tube.
So of course I thought it was that complained about it to hospital team - they said it just gargle with salt water water it will cure itself.
As I am a singer I was upset, as if things weren't bad enough with the cancer/ now I'm crippled can't sing or talk, sore throat was so bad I could not talk at all.
As for going...
Hi to anyone reading this. I am new to the site.
I was first diagnosed in 2014 with tonsillitis cancer (HPV related ) having had a non-productive cough for several weeks Attended 30 fractions radiotherapy - horrendous experience as collapsed after 12 sessions and ended up in isolation for 6 weeks.
Experienced CDiff 4 days after getting out of isolation. Eventually managed to get back to work.
2015 slow but insidious degradation of voice and increasing swallowing problems...
I have had my first cystoscopy check this afternoon at 3 months after my operation. I am very pleased to say that all is well. You can see the scar from the operation but it looks healthy and there are no signs of further lesions. Indeed the surgeon who did the operation and also this first check has said I do not need any more checks for 9 months. Yippee!!
There were quite a few people undergoing cystoscopy this afternoon, some for the first time, some old hands. One chap has been fine for 20 years...
Hi all am new to this. My sister went into have a hystertomy and the cyst that was removed was 5lbs in weight.
We had a call from consultant telling is that he needed to see us re biopsy. We were told that she had ovarian cancer but that had been taken out with cyst. He then informed us that she had cervical cancer type 1b1. That was last week this week she had a phone call to attend beatson in Glasgow. We know that she has to have chemo and radio. Can anyone advise what we should be asking oncologist...
Hi to you all,
It's a rainy Monday morning, the boys are playing in their new matching batman onesies I bought them, we have politics on the television and me and Mr H are sitting on the sofa together listening to the politicians whilst occasionally referring the boys play.
Over the past month I seem to have been in and out of hospital like a yo-yo. The infection I kept getting in my kidneys finally made it's presence really known. I got sepsis. Not nice. Getting Rigors is not much fun, your...
Good news from consultant as the pets scan shows only one lymphoma in me! Albeit still the 11cm mass - looks like I'm pregnant in the scan - such a large mass
He went through how such a lymphoma is categorised given biopsy my age Health etc and came in at under 2 which is positive - he still has some concerns it's a double hit lymphoma which is a nastier version
We discussed first chemo session this Tuesday and the possible side effects
Wife with me was great in asking all the questions...
When it comes to the title of these posts, that's where I like to be creative. It's the one piece of a post that's made up, and I like to be a bit creative with them - like the title of the whole blog - but today, there is no creativity for a title. Today, there's just a load of emotions that keep on escaping out of my eyes. I think it's mostly exhaustion that's going on, but there's a load of bad news being piled on top of each other right now that's also taking its toll too....
1st June 2017
The day I was told I have cancer. Yesterday I went for routine laparotomy at Salford Royal hospital in Manchester to remove multiple fibroids, that surgery went really well and the surgeon managed to remove all 12 of my fibroids and reduce my womb from the size of a watermelon back to a pear, a miracle in it's self!
Whilst in recovery I came across all strange and started losing control of my left side, I managed to get the attention of one of the nurses who helped me through...
Earlier this year, through a community choir mailing list I'm on, I received an invitation to take part in something quite special.
As part of the WWI commemorations a performance called "Refrain" has been composed for local male singers. It's already been performed at Richmond Castle and on Merseyside, and there is one more location at which I am taking part: Newhaven Fort in East Sussex, on 9-11 June.
It will be a very special experience to hear male voices in the echoy tunnels...
