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It's my cystectomy operation tomorrow. I feel relaxed and in a strange way excited. Life will be different afterwards. I feel like I'm going on a trip, an adventure. I bought a few more clothes today for knocking about in when I come home. I'm spending the next couple of hours lazing on the new bed watching TV. I've said my prayers so I guess I'm in God's hands now. May he grant my surgery team skill.
This is a self indulgent blog and a tribute to my mum.
I've struggle to write this one as I have so many thoughts surrounding my mum some positive some not so.
My mum was the complete opposite to me in the way she conveyed her love, she was not demonstrative, there were no hugs or I love yous, no kisses, I still hug and kiss my girls even though they are grown up, and I gush about them publicly at every opportunity, I have no idea if my mum spoke of me even fondly to anyone.
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Two days to go til my operation on Saturday. I got my Macmillan grant yesterday so I will be able to get new clothes with elasticated waist etc. I got two new tops that are slightly longer than usual to cover stoma area when wearing jeans. I bought two pairs of stretch jeggings which are great, loose on the waist. I've been practicing with the pretend stoma and bags and am amazed how totally unnoticeable it is, even with the jeggings which I thought would show it, being stretch, but no. It's a really...
there is a saying in life that 'everything happens for a reason'. At the time of my Cancer diagnosis I would have scorned disdainfully at this type of comment. Yet as I approach the 4 year mark of undergoing the surgeon's knife for what should have been the simple removal of a benign cyst, only to wake up to the horror and realisation that the evil plague of Cancer had caused mutations that would require invasive neck surgery and an aggressive tonsillectomy, I realise that from bad and evil...
My new bed is here and assembled. It is so great. It's about fifteen years since I last had a bed but I got used to it in minutes. It's just in time. My operation is on 7th Oct, this Saturday in fact. This was confirmed yesterday. I have to start practicing with my false stoma, attaching the bag etc. I have told my sons how much I love them and my granddaughters, just in case the operation goes wrong. I don't expect it to, Southmead Hospital has one of the best urology depts in the country. I'm not...
i have stomach cancer and awaiting an operation. I was scheduled to have my op on the 29th September so after getting up at 5am and traveling 25 miles to hospital to get there by 7.15am i was told that the operation had been cancelled until 9th October but no one had told me that.
Administration was asked to postpone the date to give me more time to build up my strength for the operation which they did but forgot to tell me. Having gone through the cancer diagnosi, three sessions of chemotherapy...
So last entry was hooray , back to earth with a massive bump. My youngest sons best friends mum had breast cancer almost 5 years ago , and found out last week it has re-appreared in her liver and spine. She didn't want me to know , but my son has told me , partly for his own sanity I think.
How totally crap is this disease , why is there so much re-currence ? She had both breasts removed and has no breast cancer anymore in her breasts, so the cancer must have , like for most women , just...
Last week I had an appointment with my oncologist to discuss the results of my latest scan. Always a bit daunting but as I’ve said many times ‘What will be will be’. She told me my scans and blood tests showed no evidence of cancer. I was officially ‘cancer free’. I have no cancer ‘on board’.
My immediate reaction was to burst into tears. It’s really odd but whenever I’ve had bad news (my initial diagnosis, finding out I had tumours in both sides of my liver...
