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My dad started his chemo treatment on thurs 30th sept of itravenous chemo every 3 week he goes. And also he takes oxaliplatin and capecitabine tablets 2 wks on 1 off. the side effects sarted pretty much straight away.. well the main one of the Freezing cold hands. He has his gloves on all the tme. We are wonder how long this lasts??? Does it eventually fade away or will it stay throughout the treatment.. thanks
Just a quick note to all those people who have been newly diagnosed with breast cancer.
Finished my treatment in 2009 and finally got back to work.
After a few knock backs with flu/pnuemonia over the last two years i'm still hear and going strong, so please don't give up hope and take every day one step at a time and i'm sure you'll get their. :-)
My daughter Stevie was having funny turns for a number years and the doctors were not very helpful. 2 weeks before her 25th birthday she was send for a scan. This showed that she had a brain tumor. She had an operation one week after her birthday to de-bulk the tumor. She came through the operation really well the only side efect was she had lost part of her sight in one eye. The following year the grade 4 tumor had grown and she was sent for a 7 weeks course of radiotherapy. The poor we soul lost...
I couldn't get on to the site yesterday. Friday night wasn't too good, she slept until 3 but after that she was restless and uncomfortable, I moved her from the bed to her chair in the lounge, she wasn't too good at first, but improved when her cousin from Holland arrived, followed bt two fom America.
Last night wasn't good, she couldn't sleep in her hospital style raised bed, as there is a fold where the mattress is raised, We moved her to her chair in the lounge and gave her the blue...
Yippee, finished my last chemo this week, only had six but seems like it lasted forever and then went in quick, if that makes sense. Have to go for a scan in three weeks then take it from there!!! Dont know how I feel, its strange not to be planning your life in three week cycles. Not sure what to feel, dont want to be too optimistic dont want to be doom and gloom, that cancer is a strange one, you just dont know how it is going to change you. Is there anyone else who has just finished chemo, how...
So i start my new job at the hospital tomorrow and i have butterflies as big as elephants.
I have my trust induction and my ward induction monday and tuesday and nursing and midwifery induction wednesday, thursday and friday. Then i'll be doing 38 hours a week on the wards .
I am excited this is what i want to do, i have had my kids they are all at primary school now, this is my time now!!! I am 31 in 2 weeks, i have to do something for me.
Dad wanted me to do this, i am doing it for me but...
Im in such a sad place at the moment. I cant stop crying as I write this. Why do we have to go through so much pain. I ask a friend on here what do I say and she said just write from the heart. My wonderful dad was diognoised on the 8 March with oesophagus cancer. Went through lots of tests and could only have 10 days of radiotherapy which nearly killed him. But dad has been so strong and never once complained. He has now been put in the hands of willen hospice and no more can be done. I see the pain...
I have come to the conclusion now that i cant cope being a full time carer. There for i have decided to put mum in to full time residental care. to much has gone on in my family it has torn us apart i now feel i have to take charge and get my family back in to some form of normality dunno how thats gonna work i have 2 girls aged 10 & 6 that is depressed with all thats going on and my son has left to stay with his dad full time but thats gonna change i just dont have the will to go on no more i am...
Hi everyone, so much has happened since i was last on here, errol was poorly and needed a blood transfusion , home again but still not feeling so good,,, then he started with a cough doctor said it might be a chest infection so a course of antibiotics were taken,,,,
trials for birmingham were coming up but i was sure that errol was not well enough ,, but nothing was going to stop him taking part thats for sure,,,, then we found out that he needed a heart scan before they would consider him doing...
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