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Well in the last 7 weeks I have had a liver resection & gallbladder removal to remove a tumour which surgeon said he felt was successful, after that had RFA to blast 2 tiny Tumours on my remaining kidney, the surgeon also said he felt that went successful......Had CT scan last Monday (firstly to see if RFA worked on the kidney tumours & secondly a usually CT scan after surgery to see if all removed or any new spread). I have oncology booked for this friday where I will get results, I am fooling...
september 20th 21st ....well nothin runs smooth does it??? left trev in the hospital ..chillin with a magazine. came home and did mam stuff!!! went on line and was chattin to him on facebook,,had just hooked him up to chemo..then he went quiet!! he text half hour later...he d had massive bad reaction to it...sweats, dizzy, tight chest and then blacked out. nurse had stayed to check on him luckily!!! he said he d been totally spaced out!!! took him back 20yrs to his raving days i think!!!! i can laugh...
Saw my consultant on the 13th and had everything crossed that the CA125 would have gone down. This was the first time it had been tested since starting this particular treatment and ....oh joy...it had decreased from 219 to 31 after 2 cycles! He was very pleased with my overall health and it was nice to leave the hospital with a smile on my face.
This smile got even bigger when our lovely daughter arrived for the weekend, accompanied by her (fairly new) boyfriend who we had never met. He was a...
i had my first treatment last wednesday...r-chop x 6, the steroids that you take make me really ill some days, pains all over, was sick the other night , this is all frightening stuff...has anyone else experienced this side effect......it's reassuring to know if there is ,they say phone if you have any questions at all but you dont like to bother them.........................
Well only a week to go till my chemo and radiotherapy begins, life is plodding away as always, keep thinking i should feel ill, my family seem to think i must feel ill, but feeling good, apart from having been told i have cervical cancer and the emotional issues it has brought, life is good,
HI, My partner is a keen horse rider and is considering immediate reconstruction using tummy tissue. I wondered if any other readers have experience of this proceedure and the longer term effects that it has on tummy strength or tightness. Any info would be helpful at this stage.
20th september - well, today s the day!!! we off to james cook hopsital in middlesbrough at about 12 noon. trev will be starting the first cycle of chemo....3 cycles. we feeling positive.....he was terrified about gettin the trachy etc in...but he s not going into this scared!!! he s got such a positive outlook. god knows what todays gonna bring but like everythin else in this journey..we surely gonna find out!!!
im focussed into doing what i need to do to be there and to support him. love him to...
George (my husband) politely suggested last night that I should move the pile of stuff that littered the sofa - ready to be packaged `cos I had sold it on E-Bay - in fact he said he was frightened to leave the house when I was sorting out my clothes, in case I wasn`t here when he returned. My reply was `Who would have me?`
Back to the sofa - OK I know it looked a tad untidy but it was a work in progress so far as I was concerned. He sighed patiently and said it should be cleared - even if I dumped...
hi folks, thought i would just pop down a few of my thoughts, well as everyone does or tries, im just getting on with life taking it as it comes. ive loads of jobs round the house that i couldnt do before for 1 reason or another, so a couple of weeks ago i thought there are things that wont wait any longer, trees shooting up beside my boundary fence,fence needs painting,car needs work for mot,then the mot, then blow me, we had a problem with the water supply pipe to the outhouse, the garage roof...
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