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finally finished my fourth chemo. faired better than i though. well four chemo is better than six. stayed on my feet and i am very pleased with how its going. start radio on the 13th of April only seventeen sessions to go!
totally gone off tea and coffee. cannt touch the stuff at the moment. switched to ginger ale. i can taste that. i cannt return to work untill august so i have the summer to my self yipphhheee!
still smiling and going strong i will never let this beat me.
One more session of chemo to go. Thank goodness... will have had 8 altogether and the last 4 have been pretty hard goin. Must admit i have felt pretty sorry for myself!! Had to inject myself to help with my white blood cells...the needle was no problem.. it was the side effects that took their toll...add this to the chemo and i couldn't move for a week. Good job hubby a dab hand with vac!!! Hope everyone has a nice easter........if you have been getting that horrible sour milk taste........just...
Hello to all, had 3rd treatment of 5 today so only 2 to go. feeling like been run over by a very large truck so off to bed for an hour or so this afternoon. All staff involved are really great and very patient with me when I can't get off rt table cause of pain. Have good day to all sun has come out and daffs just started to flower. xxx
well i started yesterday feeling very sick, i thought it was going to be a disaster, when i put my trousers on they drowned me, i didnt realise id lost so much weight, my mother and sister in law arrived 5 mins before the car and hardly said 2 words to me, makes a change, so me and kids just looked out for each other, i could not believe it their was no room for anyone else the chapel was packed, and the service was everything i could wish for , it was beautiful and julians dr read the euolgy brilliantly...
today we are decorating my mums granny flat next door .she says she needs it looking nice for when she gets visiters i did say people will be coming to see her and not care what her house looks like as it already looks like a show home ,but she want's it done so will do it. it's just the way she is and i love her for it .she brought some funky headscalfs yesterday and thinks see looks like hulk hogan that made us laugh just hope she keeps her sence of humour because i have a feeling we'll need it...
My mum has been diagnosed with lung cancer 3 months ago. Dr said tumor was as big as her heart. That sounds huge but not sure how this compares. I keep thinking she has a balloon inside her that is getting bigger daily, does it just burst and infect her whole body
Original plan , before Xmas, was to remove part or all of her right lung, TBD once she was on the table but she was in hospital for 4 weeks and ultimately the surgeon spoke to me and dad and said surgery was no longer an option as she...
Sorry we've been a bit lax. Jim's wife phoned us on Friday and left a message to say that Jim was still in hopsital but improving. Then, tonight, as we were walking home Jim text'd us from the hospital so we rang him straight back. He sounds quite chirpy but a bit tired but I guess thats to be expected. After all he is of a good age to go through such a radical operation. Anyway, he has had a couple of wee problems but they have been sorted out for him and he is obviously improving. It...
Hi to the forum!!! I have been recently been told i have bladder cancer ! i am a 63 year old male and whatever anybody can tell me about my next step i would be most grateful, i have had a cystoscopy!! the next thing i have to have the cancer removed hospital appointment pending!! my wife and i are both in shock at present ! i am also not computerised and my darling wife is writing this for me because i am also dyslexic does not help eh ! manythanks Flossy1
i had a mastectomy and lymph node removal in jan am starting my 1st cycle of chemo 14th april and then 5 weeks of rd followed by hormone thherapy
its in my head that im going through all this just for it to come back later on am i being silly or how do others manage not to think of the worse
So it's been just over a wek since I finished my radiotherapy. What's been happening? Well, I'm still tired, but not as bad as I was. Skin did get sore, but so much better now.
Had a call from my consultant yesterday, I'm going to Birmingham on Wednesday to drink some contrast dye, to then go back the next day to have a scan on my kidney to check on that tumour, in readiness for my operation. Never had to drink the dye before (always had an injection before) and never the day before...
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