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  • ladygooner's blog
    nosebleeds and chemo
    Hi there all, looking for some info. I have ovarian cancer, had 3rd cycle of chemo, Taxol and Carboplatin, on ICON 7 with avastin, and am recently experiencing short nosebleeds. Am trying not to blow my nose ( do you know how difficult that is?) and am aware that its to do with low platelets. does anyone out there know what I can do to help increase their production? I am living in fear of being deferred for my next cycle, as I want to do everything I can to get this over asap. I am veggie, and am...
    Former Member
  • chai's blog
    Scrapheap
    Does anyone feel the way I do? I recently made enquiries to go back to work after having cancer. I'd put it off as long as I could. I came back in floods of tears. I feel I have been written off. Cast aside, reject, faulty, out of order. I may as well have the plague. Avoid me at all cost. I knew it was going to be difficult but, after facing up to 'life after cancer' I feel like I have been hit with the iron hand in the velvet glove. I've been full of optimism since recovering, I' ve...
    Former Member
  • nanaboo's blog
    Bone marrow
    Alan had his Bone marrow test done today .Chemo starts on Thursday.Hope he will feel ok following Mon as he has to have a Lung function test . He has been sleeping on and off since we came home so hope he sleps ok tonight . Nanaboo
    Former Member
  • Allpeachy's blog
    What does 'remission' really mean?
    Hi all There's been some discussion recently about the meaning of remission, and Ray's blog about the AA man has made me think too about it. Like Ray, I have also been in 'remission' for coming up for 15 months. But I have a problem with that word, rather loosely used in public circles. My own oncologist doesn't use it, he says he is pleased that currently there is 'No Evidence of Disease' (NED as it is known). Remission - sounds to me like a retrospective term, to describe a period when you...
    Former Member
  • mechno's blog
    prostate fear
    hiya is any one else(stupid question)in fear of his prostate cancer starting imrt in july and really worried about the future i have wife and family but its not nice to keep burdoning them with my aches and pains and tiredness
    Former Member
  • mvb's blog
    melanoma, stage 4
    Well here’s my cancer story, finally got it out. First diagnose with malignant melanoma in 1996 whilst working in Bangkok. Prognosis, ‘poor’ but 5 year survival rate 97.5%. Skin tumour removed, no other treatment, only monitoring, (physical exam and chest x-ray). Returned to UK in 1997, had a couple of years of consultant monitoring at West Middlesex Hospital, (no specialised scans), then handed back to GP care. My GP was very considerate but did not really understand melanoma, (my original tumour...
    Former Member
  • ilovehersomuch's blog
    Will She Get Out of Hospital?
    Yesterday mum had such a good day. She was up, dressed and finally not confused. She was actually on the same planet as us all and she looked like her old self. She had been on a drip to push the calcium back and flush it out and it appeared to be working. My hopes ran high and I almost forgot she has cancer with no chance of a cure! Then BANG today she has took a turn for the worse again. She is on O2, they said to help with the pain. I took one of my sisters with me and it shook us up because...
    Former Member
  • Ray2's blog
    Remission is for living.
    My name is Ray, I am 64 year old self employed craft worker. I make and sell my "Bloomin' Clever Boxes" at craft shows all over the country. In October 2007 I thought my way of life, if not my life was coming to an end - both of which I was enjoying enormously - because of Non Hodgkins Lymphoma. You can read my story on the Lymphoma Forum - "Coming through Non Hodgkins Lymphoma". It is now 15 months since I was told my cancer was in remission, 15 months since I made a conscious decision to make...
    Former Member
  • claires mum's blog
    Watching your daughter go through cancer treatment and not being able to have children
    Hi everyone My name is Jane. My daughter Claire who is 29was diagnosed with cervical cancer last July. Since then she has had IVF and frozen 7 eggs. She was staged at 1b2 a tumour of about 4cms. She had a radical hystorectomy because a lymph node was positive and has had chemo and radio which has left her with bad diahorrea. She was getting her life back and then they checked a PET scan to find another cancer in her thyroid. In January she had the thyroid removed and is now on thyroxin daily...
    Former Member
  • nanaboo's blog
    Race for life
    I am registered to do the Race for life at Sutton ,a friend has been trying to get it done for a week with no luck .So she phoned them today only to be told no its full .So i am having to register again so we can do it together . Thankfully she has offered to pay it for me. Super sunny day washing is on the line.
    Former Member
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