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I have been to the hospital today for the results of the biopsy.
Not good it is cancer in the lymph node, but they cannot find a link to the cancer in my right lung(not quite sure if thats the way they worded it)
They have decided that the best form of treatment will be chemotherapy but are not to sure at present what type of chemotherapy it will be I have to go back next Friday and they will tell me.
I am to have the first chemotherapy treatment on the 23rd September
I am quite lucky in some...
I feel numb mostly the last few days but i am still feeling angry with my cousin.
Last week she was dumped by her boyfriend of just over a year who she had just moved in with this summer. I appreciate that that must feel shit. However she had the nerve to compare her feelings with what i am going through!!!
To make it worse she then proceeded to OD and put herself in hospital, just because some stupid bloke who clearly didn't really love her ended the relationship!! And she said to me 'I just didn...
Well thats a year today my dad passed away. I have been all over the place today snapping at people then crying and laughing. it has been a tough one but i got through it. We got chinese lanterns and lit them for my dad it was so nice. when the light faded my girl said that my dad got the message. It felt good i know that sounds stupid but it has made me feel a bit better. i have a smile on my face tonight and the kids are happy which my dad would have loved.
Today has been a strange day. I have not cried much though I have got to the edge of it more times than I can count, the lump in the throat and the welling in the eyes but then it stopped, I don't know why.
I went to the supermarket and I thought that I could cope with buying my sister a birthday card, it is her birthday next week. so I went to the card isle and looked for sister cards. But the unexpected feelings came because sister cards are next to wife cards! It occured to me that I will...
My dad was diagnosed with Kidney Cancer and secondary lung cancer last year. He was prescribed sutent which was doing the job..........5 weeks ago we got told the cancer had spread to his brain he had 5 days of radiotherapy and is now expereiencing the side effects. He's now got a really dry cough so we went yesterday for a x.ray today the doctor called to say the cancers now spread to both lungs and hes got several metatorso. OMG what does this mean. We now have to wait until the 21st to see his...
hi
it is obvious my healing process and lymphoedema would be better off if i lost a few stone (10 according to my gp)
who has a fool proof diet?
who exercises 6 months after a WLE like mine?
help.....
peter x
Hip hip hooray! I had my last session of radiotherapy (28 days-worth) this lunch time, this evening I take the final Capecitibine, and then I sit back and wait for a while.
So glad to have reached this day. Although the radiotherapy continues to work for another fortnight which means the tiredness and soreness may not peak for seven days (so they tell me) it feels great to reach this milestone, I am tired and sore but not as bad as many people experience I suspect. I haven't even taken any paracetomol...
Saw the Oncologist for the first time yesterday. She was very nice and we got on well. She thinks another four lymph nodes have been attacked - they are enlarged so I have to have another CT scan within the next two weeks and then back to her to discuss the way forward.
We talked at some length about the various types of chemotherapy - the snags and advantages - I said I would be guided by her.
I went into a sort of daze at home yesterday afternoon - husband was out so I mulled it all over alone...
Had a night of buzzing brain unable too switch off due to steroids i think, so didnt get much sleep!
went running in morning to try and clear head got half way round and felt as sick as a drunk on payday! but managed to carry on mainly to my upmost stubborness.
going to spend rest of afternoon chilling before tribe comes home from school
laters
pete.
hi everyone,feeling very positive today the sun is shining, peter goes for a second ct scan to see if any prostate cancer has gone anywhere else, if not he may be able to have some radiotherapy,so im hoping all goes well for him,i have a good feeling things will be ok love to all jill xx
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