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This is Mrs Victoria Hickie, wife of Andrew Hickie:
It is five weeks since my husband lost his battle with Melanoma. It was his expectation that I would update his McMillan account with what had happened at his end. However the end, as it was, was unpredictable.
Andrew died on the Saturday, 10th May.
On Tuesday 6th May he collapsed . He received head scan and spot in head which was said to be a new arising affecting speech. He was admitted overnight to hospital.
On Wednesday 7th May, Andrew...
I've had a relatively successful couple of days I think but the panic attacks are back and it's starting to grate. Maybe panic attack is the wrong word for it because there's no classic hyperventilating, just debilitating fear so the world seems to fall away from me, my body goes numb from my toes to my face and I feel like I have lost all knowledge of breathing or I've got a weight on my chest. It's hideous and mainly seems to occur when I've been asleep since I'm trying to keep busy enough to avoid...
I have not been here for a few week's been very busy redecorating the living room and passage. It helped to take my mind off of thing's. and It has helped. It was therapy. I feel so much better. no pain. trying to get back Into my yoga Is a little hard but I will get there. I have an appointment on Thursday 19/6. to see the radiologist and two week's after that another to see my oncologist. I'm feeling a little nervous you never know what they are going to say or do. I feel so well. I don't relish...
My readers (if there are any) may be relieved to hear that the muse of poetry has abruptly departed, so what I have to impart today is in prose. But it's not prosaic - it's good news. I had a CT scan last week to assess how well the last six months of chemo had worked on my pesky little lymph nodes, and on Thursday my husband and I went up to the Christie to see my lovely consultant, Dr Saunders.
The scan showed that my 'marker lesions' (those they are using to monitor the spread of the...
I just wiped my whole blog out. I am no longer going to google, read forums or blogs, inform myself about cancer, each journey is so unique. I frightened myself silly by reading too much information, I m just going to trust in my health care providers.
I hate the word "roller coaster". It implies that after a short up and down ride I'm going to get off and return to my normal life.
I would say what I'm going through is more akin to being buried alive. Just occasionally there is a glimpse of light and air but overall it is suffocating and the end result will be too awful for words.
Our eldest son has for over a year saved and planned his trip to the football World Cup. Every minute detail attended to and he was looking forward...
It's probably a little early to declare today a good day but it's warm and sunny and that's enough to make a ginger smiley (providing there is enough suncream) even though I managed to fall over twice on my walk to another episode of endless appointments with health care professionals. More tests. On the bright side that all went without a hitch. On the not so bright side I've now fallen down 3 times in 2 days and am the proud owner of 6 massive bruises.
The falling over is nothing...
