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Partner is very poorly. He may be transferred to HDU. He is very frightened that the side effects are a sign that he is going to die. He is extremely tired, may have an infection (or it could be 'acute inflammatory response'), is unable to eat. It is awful to see him like this, I am scared too.
I phoned his nurse and she was reassuring but has suggested that I get our sons in to see him. I feel very anxious but I am trying to organise it, it may help his morale a bit.
I am trying to stay...
Could anyone give me advice.
I Have NHL, diagnosed in 2005. Finished R-CVP treatment on Hogmany 2009, now on Rituximab maintenance therapy every 12 weeks. I'd quite like to get a new tattoo but don't know if there are complications with treatment.
Thanks
Ian
Well huge week for my 13 year old daughter this week , last week at school before going up to secondary school , and on thursday she has her school prom , but i can tell shes really missing her dad , and is very quiet about the prom as hes not here , she has a beautiful dress ,jewellery ( yes i did spoil her i wanted it to be special )and shoes , and will look amazing , but i wish she believed as i do that he will see her ,but sadly she thinks im nuts ,
As for me , yes im a bit sad too, and yes...
My brother and his family beat me to getting a cake, by sending my mum a large tin of muffins, brownies and cookies, which were brilliant.
What a difference a couple of weeks make. My mum was diagnosed with Myeloma, she has since been getting treatment of Chemo and Radiothearpy. She was looking a million times better than when I last saw her. She said the pain was ever decreasing and her movement had become much, much easier.
The Myeloma/cancer is in her back, ribs, left arm, shoulder and ...
Hi My name is Claire (wildman123) i am 37 years old, and i had to watch my mum go through kidney cancer and AML at the same time she was so ill, and i found it so hard to watch i spent months spending everyday at the hospital, and now i am totally lost, my life seems to have come to a stop, i have no intrest in anything anymore all i want is my mum back how long will i feel like this, unhappy, not sleeping, and no fun to be with,
Hi Everyone,
I hate coming on here and moaning but the last few weeks have been a bit rubbish. A couple of weeks ago I ended up with loads of fluid gathering in the space around my gut. I ended up looking about 7 or 8 months pregnant I was so inflated with the stuff and there was no shifting it. It was so uncomfortable, even finding a comfy sitting position was difficult.
Anyway they finally 'drained' me last wednesday and got 4.5 litres of fluid out of me! and that wasn't even all of it! Because...
Hello everyone, my elderly (87) Mom has bowel cancer, she has had a colostomy(about 3 months ago) but she is too frail to undergo an operation to remove / reduce the tumour so the outlook isn't good. The consultant says that the only further potential treatment would be radiation but she doesn't want to go back into hospital and frankly we (sister and I) think that the side efects would probably outweigh the short term benefits. She is supposed to have a monthly visit from the district nurse, she had...
Hi everyone
I finished my chemo on Hogmany and started on maintenance therapy in March. I have noticed a deterioration in my eyesight, blurred vision when reading. My friend in Canada who is also going through chemo told me his Oncologist mentioned this was a possible side effect. Anyone any ideas or experiencing the same?
Ian
Thank you for all for your comments and support. I am now on week two and think I am slowly getting better. Spoke with somebody who was starting yesterday and she said she felt exactly as I did with her planning session,even before radiotherapy and I hadn't even mentioned how I felt, so made me feel better knowing not just me. One more request from anyone who has finished. Any advice as to whether to put aqueous cream on every day before any problems or wait and see how bad it gets.
All went well with hubby's first chemo yesterday - the only hiccup being that there was no parking spot outside the unit so I had to drop him off, then drive round the hospital to find a place and leg it back. Lo and behold as I arrived at the unit doors I espied a parking space!
Once treatment started hubby realised he had made a mistake with the reading material - a newspaper, too big to handle. Instead he dozed through the bits in between the nurse fiddling. Well doing her job really but...
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