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Just a few months ago i was your average 22 year old, i was in uni studying for a marketing degree when i suddenly had a painful sore appear on my vulva. At first i didn’t want to go to the doctors because I was embarrassed, I knew it couldn’t be a STI as I have been with the same partner for over 6 years and was a virgin when we met. Eventually i went just because it was so sore I had no choice, then the integration began I spent weeks being tested for different STI and being told I had herpes, which...
i am trying not to be emotional about all of this. although i am allowed to be emotional that my father isnt here, right? the way he died, how he died, is still churning away, i push the feelings away and deal with practicality after practicality, i arranged his funeral which was one of the most difficult things, i have kept three complaints going, which feels like rubbing my head on a cheese grater. when will i have my time? my time to just relax and feel sad? i cannot allow myself to connect with...
My Bobbie, he seems to be getting worse. Was looking so well and feeling it when we went to Greece [on our surprise holiday]. He started radiotherapy had 7 lots and was getting more ill by the day. He kept telling them it was so painful, but they kept sending him back for more. Well he ended up in hospital, for 2 wks, after he could not take any more has lost another 2st in just a few wks, did not have it to lose. They have now stopped all treatment, one doctor has said they have given him too strong...
My husband had an operation 3 weeks ago to remove over half of his tongue as he had been diagnosed with cancer about 6 weeks ago. The op went well and having seen the consultant today we have been told he will need radiotheraphy. What are the pros and cons?
Hello world, my mum who is 62 has advanced lung cancer and there talking chemo to manage the symptoms. The news has been somewhat of shock and they have said that if mum doesnt get her chemo this week she will have a few more weeks to live, but she has got a chest infection and she was meant to have it on friday. The doctor on CDU told my family it wasnt going to happen and now the nurse on the oncolgy has said that he had no right to say what he did he wasnt the speicalist.
Right now we await the...
Well I managed to go and conduct my training session, I called the hospital when I left Aberdeen and then again when I got to Elgin to check he was ok, the nurse told me he had quite a night they had to get someone to sit with him as he was so agitated he managed to take his iv line out so it is now bandaged up so he cant get to it. He was a lot brighter when I went in tonight, I made myself ill worrying that he would be in the same state again but he was sitting up in the bed he doesnt have the...
Day 2 I have felt very nausious today but kept vomiting at bay with anti- emetics and ginger buscuits, ( Good excuse to eat them) I feel starving all the time, can't stop eating. Have decided that it is probably due to the fact that I can't drink and I am probably thirsty. ( Why couldn't it have been the other way round) Am trying to drink tea and coffee, I have bottled water but it tastes yuk at room temperature. Orange juice is about the nicest tasted but I have to wait until it too is...
hi there every-one - well i have had more tests done again - went for a scan on my jaw and biopsy on lymphnode in my neck yesterday - i am seeing the specialist again on tuesday so hoping they will be able to give me some idea as to how we are going to fight this thing - this waiting and having tests done is realy hard but then i suppose it is only in our own interests that they do this - they need to get a full picture of what is going on then they are able to offer us the proper treatment plan for...
well, i managed to get through the meeting with social services. there were two people there and a woman taking notes. i also took notes. i think that they had intended to wrap it up there and then, and push the whole awkwardly inconveniant episode behind them. awkwardly inconveniant being my father's end of life care or lack of, being undermedicated when dying in pain, lack of nursing and more.
they began with telling me the positives that had come from the experience. that the nursing home...
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