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It's Wednesday, October 28th - bit of non day weatherwise (dull, grey skies with a bit of a chilly wind) reminds us of home on the Isle of Man. Andrew had quite a good night - he's now waking up every 2 hours during the night to visit the loo. His appetite is good too, eating 5 small meals a day which keeps me pretty busy either cooking or shopping. He still looks pale and wan and feeling very tired most of the time but he is in good spirits and starting to sound like his old self....
i told my little one today that the cancer has returned - she was very good bless her - the first thing she said was are they going to operate again - i told her that it wasn't an option this time - she then said 'are you going to die' - i took a big deep breath and explained to her that we couldn't say what was going to happen we have to wait for the results of the tests - i asked her if she was upset and she said no - i was shocked - she then said should i be? do you want me to be upset? i wasn...
well i dont know if this will be interesting or not iether way ;unlike yourselves; i will have to read it, like it or not.
firstly let me give you my daily routine as best able .
Wake up for the thousands time since i lay down last. check the watch to see how many minutes i have slept since last remembered anything to give myself some idea of how many minutes i have manage to accumalate in sleep mode. added togerther with the last number noted in m y fuddled mind was it 55 minutes making it 201...
Many of you may be aware that there is a RAGING debate occurring in the Myeloma community among patients AND medicos about doing a SCT at all. The reason for this debate is that the new novel therapy drugs "can" be used to beat back Myeloma, in a maintenance therapy sort of format. Studies are currently starting in the US to address the claims of doing this. They are collecting the patients own stem cells, in case, and then putting them on a new novel therapy cocktail, monitoring them,...
I felt so down on monday which isn't usually me. I got some lovely advice from my freinds on here. So I decided to start exercising again. Before my cancer and after my op I used to go to the gym to power walk for 45 mins and to swim for 40 mins. My oncologist said I was a fit young woman ( Your not so bad yourself,) I am 55 so I thanked him for saying that. Anyway I swam 40 mins mon and tues, then I power walked wed and today. It felt great! I intend to do this on my GOOD week. I know chemo is a...
First time I've written one of these, just feel that there is so much i need to get off my chest but have no one to say it too!. This time last year i was looking forward to Christmas oblivious to the fact my world would fall apart the day before Christmas when my dad was told he had advanced kidney cancer and the chances - 1 in 10. SInce then its been a roller coaster of no treatment available, then were lucky enough to get on to sutent, that worked at first but 2 months ago they said it had...
I finished chemo therapy in June.( I've got an endometrial cancer at Grade 111C - it had spread from the womb area to the pelvic and aoarta lymph nodes).
Tomorrow I'll have my very last Radio Therapy treatment appointment.
I've had RT every day since August 5th 2009 (apart from a one week break).
I can't wait. I'm so excited. It will all be over soon.
The scar and the cancer damage was too extensive for one set of 35 days of Radio Therapy, so I had to have two sets. An eternity...
the day has arrived,my mom starts chemo today,i am trying to stay strong for her but i am finding it hard.Its hard because we know what could happen when she starts chemo even though we are trying to keep positive.please if there is anyone out there that can give me some advise please get in touchi would love to hear from you
I feel as though Bert has been away for months . I have had to take some time off work as I am still not sleeping and was crying for no reason, well I do have reason but you know what I mean.Got some new sleeping tabs from the Doc but have been out gardening since 6.30 and up during the night at least 4 times so will need to try 2 tonight.. I am going to clean out Bert's wardrobe and get rid of all his old working stuff as he has been given early retirement and wont be going back.
They gave...
Now almost 6 weeks since I had surgery for anterior bowel resection after they found a cancerous polyp in my sigmoid colon. With cancerous cells found in 4 lymph nodes out of the 34 they took out nearest the polyp. All this started only about 2 months ago can't believe it's happening to me really. It's all been such a shock for husband and kids, daughter expecting her first baby at the end of March. Due to go to hosp to have pic line fitted for 6 months chemo on Nov 12th, dreading it, people...
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