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Hi... where do I start? Joe was taken in to hospital with severe abdominal pain in the early hours of sunday morning. After several hours of no news (you can probably imagine what I was thinking) we were told that Joe has adhesions that have caused kinks in his bowel. Treatment is, morphine, NG feed and iv fluids to rest his bowel and hope that this is enough to put it right.... Fast forward to this morning. I met him at the hospital for his oncology appointment and, to cut a long story short, he...
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I had an appointment yesterday with the Prof of Endocrinology to find out the results of last week's scan. My last scan was in May 09, after 6 months of chemo, and it showed some shrinkage which was good. But what had happened since then? I have been getting increasingly nervous as the time drew near, and for me that means chronic insomnia. And although I'd tried to put it to the back of my mind over Xmas etc, it never...
today i am missing my mum so much! i still get up every day and have to remind myself that shes not downstairs or pottering about in the kitchen! i went to the marie curie hospic the other day - where my mum spent the last 2 months of her life - to hand in a donation. it felt awful, seeing the people, receptionists, place where my mum had been! i just wanted to run up to the 2nd floor and see her! nothings the same without my mum here! i would actually give anything to have her back in my life. sometimes...
dad is coming home tommorow as nothing more can be done, so he is coming home to die with his family close by, hospital phoned yesterday for mum to go over as uick as she could , we have had this 3 times in last 10 days and he is still here, hospital phoned me as dad was asking for me so i rushed over to see him, he is so aggresive and abusive with the staff and also us at times as i think he is so distressed took 4 of us to calm him down and get him back in bed and he wont keep his oxygen on either...
ive been thinking of writing a blog for ages but not sure where to start , or how , so any ideas gratefully recieved,
As of today i get to spend more precious hours with my lovely hubby, as ive changed from working 41 hrs a week to just 18 hrs subject to change when we feel necessary, people all along this sad journey have tried to tell me what to do and ive ignored them , not the well meaning ones, just the ones who think they know it all , i have trusted my instincts and have done what i feel...
HI got through my first chemo ok! i was terrified! The hospitail nurses were great and i met a friend who i used to work with. He has the same problem but is doing well. if you are going for chemo for the first time try not to worry to much its not to bad its just a drip. if you want some good advice if you have an ipod take it with you and watch a couple of films as it takes abit of time but they do feed you! watch out for the soup though ha ha!
My husband had the whipples op New Years eve 2008, followed by chemo, 6 mnths worth and then they decided to give hime radiotherapy. He was supposed to have 5 wks of this but was in so much pain after just 2 lots that they stopped this after his 5th amount, but he also ended up in hospital for 9days in such terrible pain and was very unwell. They put him on morphine patches to help deal with the pain when he came home and also oxycon for back up. He did not last very long at home because he was...
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