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I would like to say how much theon line community can help people with cancer needing a listening ear. I think it would be helpful to know which people were the ones with cancer as it does make a difference to their view point,
My husband was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus on the 8th March. we are now waiting for his appointment with consultant on Tuesday, after he had more tests this week. I feel once we know whats gonna happen next I will be able to pull myself together and do what we gotta do. he has lost a stone in weight but only weighed 101/2 stone in the first place. Is hard to watch him struggling to swallow food, he knows he has to eat, but its hard.
I'll probably be writing a lot more once we get onto...
We've had a difficult 3 months. The pain in Pat's shoulder had been getting increasingly worse, excruciating at times, he's had a low grade fever for weeks, night sweats and irregular blood results but our consultant has been dragging his feet and has not been on top of Pat's case. When a liver biopsy came back clear he said he was "quite optomisic" but we knew better and our certainty that this was cancer related was right.
Our GP, who is fantastic, was increasingly worried...
Its a different life now , it has been now since the 16th september 2010, my darling husband was diagnosed with cancer. i wish i had joined this site earlier.i have been on here almost daily for months now reading other peoples experiences. i realise we are not alone in this nightmare and indeed there are many that are worse off than us but the one thing that strikes me is how kind and supportive everybody is, even in their darkest times they take the time to listen and respond to others going through...
Well hello again :-) thought i would give you all an update as i aint been on here in a while.... Im so pleased to say that i do still have a full head of hair after finishing the scalp cooling while having epirubicin, i did however on my last epi loose most of my eyelashes. I found this a bit upsetting but to be honest just using top liner made them not to obvious.
My first round of cmf went rather to well and i moved house the very next day after treatment... day 8 of cmf though was a different...
My husband has NHL which was diagnosed in February 2010 this totally devastated us and our daughter !!!!!! but we got on with it and he now has had 8 r-chop chemotherapy treatments everything went well pet scans came back good with vast reductions!!!!! :) ( We actually got to see the scans couldn't believe something so huge could now be down to next to nothing ) The last pet scan results we got in October were not exactly what we wanted to hear ' Nothing has changed since the last one in July'...
I was discharged from hospital 4 weeks ago after a 3 week stay!
The Dr said they would see me in 4 weeks in the clinic.
No appointment as yet!!
I have been having trouble with my illiostomy stoma and rang the colorectal nurse for advise.
The nurse asked me if I had seen anyone since I was discharged? My answer was no!
The nurse said that she would get my surgeons secretary to send me an appointment, now that was over a week ago!
Why when they say 4 weeks don't they stick to it? It is more than...
Well here I am, 6 sessions into my radiotherapy and not a bit how I planned to be! My life for the last few months has been a rollercoaster to say the least...
Since having my operation just before Christmas and being diagnosed there have been some ups and lots of downs and I'm not just waiting for everything to even out! But 6 out of 20 sessions is progress, and I'm not on countdown to the half way mark. So far so good with the side effects, but I know it's still early days with that....
Just thought I would share my morning, I decided to catch up on some phone calls today, I needed to ring my life insurance provider as I had made a claim under the terminal illness clause in the insurance and was promised weekly updates, well its been 5 weeks and nothing. Rang this morning and had a nice conversation with a lady who said various things like waiting for GP report, also that they had sent various update emails, none of which I had recieved. Well I was just sitting down to a cuppa when...
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