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Spent a kinda relaxed weekend with mum, having had an horrendous week where she was bitter and angry and wouldnt talk, yesterday i sat next to her, put my arms around her, told her how much she means to us all, told her i cant imagine what she is thinking, but talked about her having the blood transfusion, promised her we wont make her stay any longer than needed, but also stressed she is very weak and the hospital may decide on a drip for her being dehydrated(sorry cant think what its called).
...I have just spent the day with my children and my parents and my brother and sister ......we had lunch in the garden in the sunshine, played some games with the kids, had a laugh basically.
Then i have just got home, put a dvd on for my babies and gonne and sat in the garden and cried....for what reason i have no idea.
I feel really really sad and i don't understand it, Dad has just had a really good day and we have made more lovely memories for my children....why can't i just enjoy the moment...
Hi all,
Had my last epirubicin the other day, feels good! Going in much easier through the line. Am getting used to my new little friend in my chest, it doesn't feel too uncomfortable, just being careful about knocking it. The dressings have been changed and it's been flushed, easy peasy. Well I'll have it for a year or more so will have plenty of time to get used to it.
Flushing the line is easy - takes a minute or so. What takes longer is the waiting around - when I went in the other...
…..steel toecaps required! AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHH. Hmm, that feels a bit better. Someone has upended the special storage boxes in my head. The ones that I file things away in until I’m ready to deal with them. I’ve gone back over the past few weeks and can’t recall doing any spectacular gymnastics or other twizzly stuff that might have inadvertently scattered their contents everywhere, so why have they all got muddled up? It’s very frustrating. The...
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My dad has now decided that he is not going to have anymore treatment at all including blood, the doctor has told us that within a week to ten days he will propably be sleeping all of the time and then it will just be a matter of days - all I wanted was for him to see the World Cup - it is so unfair.
The next few weeks are going to be the toughest I know and Ihate getting upset in front of him because that makes him more stressed, he keeps telling me to live my life as normal but I am scaed...
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this is what the nurse had to say... well it was the macmillan nurse who is great at dressings... but she was able to give me a 7am appointment so i could go to work afterwards as she knows im getting grief at work
she said that the swab taken at the walk in centre last weekend showed growth of staphylococcus aureus, streptococci and anaerobes and therefore i have been given a course of augmentin, a broader spectrum antibiotic as the walk in centre put me on flucloxocillin last week.
she said...
Hi... Hope everyone is enjoying the good weather?
Today i went for re dressing at the walk in centre,... below are the photos
just a warning about tubigrip single or double... well at least in my case... there was nothing between my skin and the tubigrip. so over 2 days of hot weather and the tubigrip moving... a blister happened under one of the peices of micropore holding the pad in place. so when the plaster was taken off, the skin over the blister came off too... see pic! ouch!
otherwise it...
Hiya everyone, iv just joined and not to sure what im doing! i would love to talk to people who are going through the same difficulties and emotions that cancer throws at you.
Im 32 and have a fantastic husband and 2 great children but 2 weeks before xmas i was told that i had breast cancer in my right breast which had spread to my armpit and lymph nodes in my neck. i had been going to my GP for 12 months previous because of a lump in my breast and neck but he assured me it was a sports injury.
...Well i can not believe what my mother in law has done now , do i cry or do i punch someone or something i am so angry ,,
most of you prob know since ju,was diognosed she was a nightmare , treated me like dirt but i put up with it for him , sometimes it was so hard but i was always the better person, well at the funeral she told everyone i didnt care for him properly and he should have been in a hospice , well she had to leave as noone else believed a word she was saying,. i have no regrets over...
chemo cancelled for monday, blood results no good. feeling fed up and not very good. not sure wether feel bad coz of the chemo or if i have coughtt some bug.... the bloods say i have an infection but they dont know where??? on the plus side i finished my radio therapy this week. got doctors appointment later just to check me over. take care everyone love sue xxx
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