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Hi does anyone have any experience with Papillary kidney cancer?
Sarah
Hi everyone...
just to say i havent disappeared! first week in new flat and enjoying it. only 15 mins to work on the bus now opposed to 1 hour 15 mins when i was living in london. flat mates are good and i am settling nicely.
went to my new gp practice yesterday and saw the nurse re dressings. she said there was nothing more she could do and it was now a matter of time, the wound is about 85% healed and it will be another 2 months before it is 100% better.
lymphoedema stocking working ok except...
I have come to a 'moment in time' where I can just breathe the sea air where I live and for a short moment forget Cancer ever came in to my life. BUT Driving my car today I was stuck behind someone who was going so slow, I was almost shouting 'Hurry Up - I havn't got all the time in the world' and when I see something I want I just think 'Have it! I havn't got long, so I may as well enjoy it' - All very tongue in cheek
For me, I have to make a joke of it, or risk...
At last I have written confirmation for Aug 20th - Wide Excision and SLNB. It's been a long time coming, and until I actual got the call - even though I'd been told I was listed, I was still nervous. But just to play with my mind a tiny bit more, the letter says "report at 7:30 a.m. - ring before leaving to make sure there is a bed". Well, all I can say is, there'd better be. I know it's a pro-forma letter, but do they really go as far as getting the operating theatre, the surgeon, the anaesthetist...
having spent the last year laying/sitting on the sofa staring at the orangey colour of the living room walls i have started painting them white! mick is laughing at my painting skills,,, i can only manage a bit of wall at a time so its getting done in bits!! he's filling in the holes between the stones on another wall to stop the mice coming in and to keep the heat in this winter - last year the heat kept the bikes (and the mice ) warm in the barn lol. my daughter has just sent new scan pics...
I will be having my second TAC chemo on Mon 16th if all ok with blood test. Last week whilst on holiday I spent two nights in Withybush Hospital with an infection. Hard to believe, as I had little contact with anyone or anything. However the staff were great and Dr Anne was fab and soon I was back enjoying the North Pembrokeshire coast with my husband and four year old son
I have been told by my consultant not to go to the office whilst having treatment due to the size of the open plan office and...
Well i really dont know how im feeling atm, apart from very antisocial and lonely,
I got some bad news yesterday my step grandad ( i say step but has been my grandad since i was 12 ) , he is in hospital very poorly ,noone seems to know exactly whats going on , vaguely told tia,s which is strokes , he has had dementia for 2 years ,and all we been told is he is going into a hospice asap , their is no point me pushing my mum for info as she just wants it to be quick for financial reasons as hes been...
I thought I'd give blogging a go as since my husband Patrick was diagnosed with invasive bladder cancer in February I have found it therapeutic to write down what we are going through and how I'm feeling.
Pat underwent 3 rounds of chemo after diagnosis and 2 weeks ago had a radical cystectomy. He came home from hospital yesterday. Having him in the hospital brought to the surface the fear I have been feeling since his diagnosis. I'm hoping having thought through the different possibilities...
….returns! Dr Socks is back! He didn’t go to Cromer in a caravan, neither did he sail between exotic tropical islands and sadly I don’t think he bought himself any commemorative holiday socks…but he’s back. I was quite surprised at how pleased I was to see him. Not in a weak at the knees in awe of the great doctor way, I don’t do that sort of thing. Besides, when you’ve been told of the entertaining antics of the off-duty version it’d be hard to be in awe and...
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