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Well, it been over 3 months since i lost my Mum, and i am waiting for it to get better! I have been having a few more better days than sad days but am so very frustrated that i can't be strong and i can be fine one minute then bawling the next.
Driving is worse, when my mind is clear and then i start thinking and crying. And fantasising that if i just drive past her house she will be sat in the window doing her bit for neighbourhood watch as she liked to say.
I have so many questions in my...
sorry, new to all this blogging but just need to write it down i think. Dad had his oesphagus removed last aug and has done so well. did everything they told him to do , considering he has never trusted doctors before, this was very good for him, he has a couple of hernias at the same site and was going in for surgery but complained to his consultant that he was having some problems eating again so they sent him for camera down, they found more cancer at the join site and sent him for a ct scan,...
Can I ask anyone if they have any idea when hair starts to come back after chemo has finished. I have been on taxol and caprpolatan (think thats how you spell it). Just finished about three weeks ago, does it take 3 months 6 months, nobody has said. Marion.
Dad had his last chemio today. I'm going back home on Thursday and hopefully this will cheer him up a bit and we can spend some time watching movies and maybe taking the dog for a walk (if he feels up to it - dad, not the dog!)
The next scan is on 29th November and mum sent me and my sister a message saying she's very worried as they haven't spend this long without seeing doctors or going to the hospital and she almost feels left alone. I live 1200 miles away, so I can't really help...
I don't want to bum anyone out but my mum's had a bit of a tough weekend. I haven't thought that the tramadol was doing it's job for a few weeks and that mum needed something stronger (she was at 400mg per day plus 50mg for breakthrough). I've lost track of how many times I've said to her she looks uncomfortable but she wasn't having it. She was offered morphine weeks ago and has refused it. But this weekend she had terrible pain on Sat am and refused to allow the Dr to...
At last we have managed to get back into our old routine. Babysitting the granddchildren. Visiting family in Yorkshire. Going out for a meal and having a drink. Long may it continue!!
Going on chemo really stopped me wanting to do anything but I'm over that now. Chemo again on Thursday.
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Its fast approaching my husbands last Ritux treatment (28th Oct) and then the following week he will undergo PET and CT scans to see if the Ritux has done its job. He is very scared, isnt talking at all about anything really just quite withdrawn. I have tried to engage him but I really dont know where to go with this. I have told him that from the information on this site and blogs and forums that you lovely people have posted the outlook doesnt seem to be as grim and there is every possibility that...
sunday october 17th 2010 - went to pick trev up today......end of chemo cycle 2!!! went into hospital on tuesday....been hooked up ever since!! i ve been to visit him daily and yet again he s done brilliantly!!! had a slight infection in his trachy and peg sites....always does when he goes in hospital!!! but course of antibiotics and he s champion : )
there was another lad his age ...37....in the next bed...was really weird..turns out he lives close to us...has the same cancer...and his girlfriend...
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In my opinion this site was messed up the day the macmillan people changed the site from " share" and " what now " and in my view its never been the same..
so many people couldnt use this site and ended up with no place to go, so many threads and posts vanished never to be seen again...
no one even wanted the changes..infact everyone DID NOT want the changes only those that run this site didnt listen and didnt care a dam... It sure was not something...
oh well its been the weekend, and all weekend I have felt down. Found out on thursday that dads psa level is raising and that the doctor isnt happy. So once again we are back to talk about another course of chemotherapy. Dads mood has changed and he is feeling really down and angry about it all. Saw him yesterday and he looked so sad and poorly. Cried for most of the weekend how much of this can 1 person take b4 they lose it. Dont feel like I can do anything. Just want 2 be able 2 take the pain away...
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