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Here I am sitting on my daughters computer, after I have done my 'grandma' bit, and taken the girls to school. My daughter is doing teaching practice, and has had to find child care to cope with the extra time it takes to be a 'teacher' rather than a TA, and each time she needed help over the last two years I have been having treatment, so this time I'm pulling my weight. How do you fill your time in somebody elses house during school hours? I don't like to interfere too...
This week my mum goes for her three months scan. She has had chemo and has been on a drugs trial. I have read that chemo does not seem to work fro people with advanced Pancreatic cancer but I am keeping my fingers crossed as she is fitter than when she was diagnosed, I hope its not just a false hope. I cant believe the last three months have gone so quickly.
Well, i've been admitted to The Christie today to start my chemo.
Not even been here that long and i've lost count of how many drips i've had!
I'm connected to 3 pumps at the moment - what a pain to get to the toilet lol
has anyone in macland had any experience of this....when i nod my head i get this strange tingling sensation in both my feet. went to docs today and she is getting in urgently touch with my oncologist for an appt. she wants to rule out that mets havent attatched themselves to my spinal cord but as you can imagine this is a bit disturbing. i would be grateful for any info .
As you may have guessed by my lack of posting, Claudette passed away in the hospice on Thursday last. She had a walking frame and ripple mattress delivered, but was unable to use either as she could not lift herself up from the chair. On Tuesday it was decided that she would go into the hospice on Wednesday, her hairdresser came in the evening and cut her hair, followed by two nurses who washed her.
We stayed the last night together, but by the morning I couldn't handle things, so it was fortunate...
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My mum was diagnosed with secondary liver cancer in August with a primary in the duodenum or pancreas. She'd been hospitalised with acute pain in her right side and put on tramadol. She was sent home ok-ish to await appointments with the general surgeon and oncologist. We saw the surgeon who said her cancer was inoperable and chemotherapy pretty pointless on 20th Sep, and while waiting for the oncology appt she was hospitalised again on Friday 1st Oct. She's still in.
She has two...
Why does this happen? Probably because I am 45 and my beloved partner P is 54. We have been together for a wonderful 25 years and never married because we didn't think we could love each other any more if we had a licence. It never bothered me before, not being married, I would just introduce P as my partner. Yet now in hospitals when I am with him, nurses, Docs as they draw the curtains round the bed, look at me and say "Are you his wife?" and I say no and feel like they think I'm shouldn't be there...
So right now Im on Hospital family accommodation in Basingstoke and my mum is on the ward. Its so strange. I have been waiting for this day for months and now its here I want to run away. Mum's big op is on Tuesday and its sixteen hours plus long. Its so surreal. Its a radical treatment called the sugar baker technique that will drain her mucus out of her stomach/abdo/ torso area and then they will apply warm chemo directly into the cavity for one hour and drain that out. I cant say Im not bricking...
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I was thinking it is a while since I wrote a blog post, which I guess is because health and treatment-wise there isn't a huge amount to report. But friends who haven't seen me or heard from me for a while will perhaps be glad to know that I'm pretty healthy at the mo - back to ballet, swimming and chasing kids round the park. Back at work for the past couple of weeks too. (In fact, I never got to the stage of being completely signed off - managing a bit of work each week, even...
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