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My motivation has legged it! I cannot be bothered at the moment to do anything and I don't understand if it's physical or pyschological. I have had a huge blast of radio last Monday on my spine (5 days worth in one hit) and the week before chemo, so I have been exhausted but feel I should be making the best of my life while I am able. I have always been an 'on the go' person, busy, living life to the full and extremely motivated but now I just can't be asked! I hope I'm not sinking into a depression...
just bought a five year diary totally not like me, since my dad died i take everyday at a time and don't really plan. But now with appointment and treatment i need to be more organized for my mum, as she's just been diagnosed with breast cancer .
I beginning to wonder why i bother with alot of people in my life....... the minute they have a problem i am there 100%, but the minute i need some support or someone to cry with or moan abut things they all back off or i get cut off...... i understand they have alot of things going on in their life and i get told ive got a cancer they can cure so i dont really have any right to be upset about it...... but one gets to moan to me about how her placement for uni is and the other about how her life is...
hello everyone and thank you for your help and love on my last blog .Well here goes , the latest thing that has happened is phil has developed a new area on his leg that is leaking fluid due to his having fluid retention in his legs and his skin is so delicate that I have to be really careful when i touch him to change his dressings . I am getting so scared to move him as he cant move himself that I might damage him .I put his t.shirt on yesterday and touched his arm ( which is also full of fluid...
Bert never lived long enough to meet his new grandson but he said all along it would be a boy, never faltering. He kept telling me he had seen him and I thought he was hallucinating. Who knows. Meet Murray Albert Whitehouse.
Greg his other grandson so so happy when he got to see him before he was sedated this is a picture of them both 2 weeks before Bert died.
Ive just had a major biopsy for vulvar cancer and in so much pain with it...im taking 1 voltarol and 2 paracetamols three times a day and in between taking two paracetamols..i have three young children and cant be spaced out on pills but does anyone know anything else i can take for the pain...please any ideas would be grateful..im also taking three salt baths a day.
Hi Everybody,
I have (had) bowel cancer with liver and lung mets. I had a combined liver and bowel op last year. now I am trying to deal with the lung mets which didn't go with the chemo. I'm having a different chemo and the onc suggested a port a cath as my veins never were good and are quite bad now.
I hate hospitals so much that they have to be warned that I am coming and shut all the doors and get things ready so I don't see any unecessary "hospital things" and I don't have to wait...
Ron's mum died yesterday. It was a release really as she wasn't eating and rarely conscious. We will go to the funeral, naturally, and it means that we must fly. I get conflicting opinions about flying after chemo. This site states somewhere that you should not fly for some months after chemo but our oncologist says it's OK. Has anyone any experience? I am now worried about Ron's dad. They had been married 62 years and it is very difficult to cope after such a long time together.
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