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With all the best intentions in the world, had a lovely relaxing bath and settled down to get a good nights sleep..........4,30 am and I am still awake.
When hubby woke me just wanted to tell him to cancel the appointment and leave me in bed, but managed to drag myself out and get going. Got to the hospital 10 minutes early then had a 40 minute wait. My consultant wasnt there today but I was seen by one of his crew (very nice man) who I had seen on the ward the day after my operation. He explained...
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I'm really not too sure what all this 'blogging' is about but I'm looking for some company!
I have just been diagnosed with a series of metastases in my spine and possibly in my lung. (I have been through surgery to stabilise my spine and can't remember what I was told, and what I dreamt!!) Hopefully I will find out more next week when I see the Oncologist.
I was so sure it was all cured and 5 weeks of radiotherapy was the worst I was going to get - I'm trying to be positive...
Finally today we have heard that there is a bed for dad in the hospice, he is to go in tomorrow. He is in a lot of pain today, the doctors have been out twice this morning, they have given him a injection which I presume is painkillers so he is sound asleep just now. The skin on his legs is starting to crack and they think there might be a bit of a infection there so they have started him on antibiotics, if he is still in pain when he wakens up mum just has to call the GP out again and they may call...
Hav'nt been on for a while as i've been doing ok. Different matter today though. I've been a bit tearful for a few days now, missing dad like mad. The thought of xmas without him is unbearable. Everywhere you go now theres cards for 'Dad' theres xmas songs playing in the shops. Dad used to love spending xmas with us and our kids and I always do the whole xmas dinner being the perfect hostess. Although i've been good and done most of my present shopping the thought of xmas day and dinner without...
Does anyone know how long it takes for steroids to get out of your system? I stopped taking them a month ago and was waiting for a dramatic weight loss (after my dramatic weight gain while on them)! I still have a 'moon face' and bloated stomach-which could be due to all the food I consumed while on them. I still feel very nauseous and am going to try acupuncture today to see if it helps.
dad got cancer the first time about 7 years ago, it was just a couple of bits on his vocal cords, they scraped and then gave him radiotherapy, and then it was gone.
about 20 months ago they found he had cancer of the esophagus, his throat had been closing up very quickly and he was having trouble eating. annoyingly months before he'd asked his doctor if he could have this, but the doctor just told him no, didnt look, didnt do any tests. if the guy had just given dad a barium test, he would've seen...
Hi everyone, have not blogged for ages, but i do log in nearly everyday to read everyone elses, how awful am i! Ive been busy with my daily visits to the hospital to get my radiotherapy. Felt really horrid as i feel so very sore inside and keep getting water infections due to my uretetic stents still insitu................
I have just finished my 35 zaps of radiotherapy this week (thank goodness) and saw consultant yesterday with results of blood tests i had to have last Tuesday. It turns out that...
So often people with rare cancers join our community and feel so lost as nobody responds to their blogs, eg Parmitage.
I know that this can be hard because we know nothing about their cancer type and therefore we feel that we have no answers to give them so how about a "wee hello" for support!
Thankyou,
Big hugs to everyone
Alison.x
well i have been busy with the appointments as you all will be too aware of. i went for my kidney funtion test yesterday so i was backwards and forwardss to the hospital three times, so didn't get much else done really yesterday - went to bed at 8, i felt shattered. this morning got up and took the dog for her morning run around the dog field and met up with her mate dev, we were the only ones out - just goes to show who the dog lovers are - dogs need to be out and about even if it is raining....
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