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Many of the old What Now regular chatroomies will know Clemmie (from Amsterdam) and her penchant for nipping out for late evening goodies. Last night, Clemmie's mum, Bellfire, joined the site. Clemmie's health has deteriorated and she is currently in ICU in hospital in London suffering from a serious chest infection, she also has brain metastases and has undergone radiotherapy.
Please can you all think of or pray for Clemmie and her family at this most awful of times.
Clemmie was a frequent...
Can anyone shed any light on this? I have been looking on the net but can find very little information on this subject.
I have tried to leave messages for people and nothing ever seems to work on this site since they messed with it.
I was along visiting Dad today and I went and spoke to the nurse, she said that because dad was managing to receive his medication orally he could do this at home, they know he wants to get home and they say they are doing the same things that could be done at home and he would be comfier. I agree with all that and can see it now I have calmed a little. What gets me is that since they took him off his IV fluids at the start of the week he has steadily went downhill again, he is sleeping all the time...
Hi All
Well the first chemo wasn’t as bad as I’d built it up to be in my mind, despite taking a full 8 hours due to me having a bit of a hot flush halfway through; they seemed more worried about it than I was.
I must admit that I was put on the back foot when I first entered the chemo room, because the reality of the situation suddenly hit me with renewed clarity. However within minutes I was put at my ease by the wonderful staff and fellow patients.
I have notice over the past weeks...
In case it's of any help to those newly diagnosed, here's my personal experience - though everyone's is different, and hopefully without my little blip through my ignorance/subsequent neglect in hospital the first week!
I went to have a swine flu jab this morning at GPs.
Everyone who had it was asked to sit in the waiting room afterwards for 10mins in case of adverse reactions.
I felt fine, but a man sitting across from me, with 2 boys (who I presumed were his sons) suddenly slumped back in his chair and started groaning. He fainted, and loads of people called for the doctor, who came running out of his room and tried to get the man on the floor. Oxygen was brought in, receptionists were flapping around, it was...
Friday 13th November 2009
My twin brother is OK, he had his colonoscopy today and they removed one polyp.
He will be checked on a regular basis from now on but he is fine
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