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It's funny how you take eyelashes and eyebrows for granted and you do not miss them until they're actually gone. It is only the last week or so that I started losing my lashes and today I noticed that I have literally one or two lashes left. My eye feels bare and the upper lid is sticking to the lower eyelid since there is no hair. It is the most strangest feeling. I am not getting on too well with false eyelashes ... The eyebrows are non existent but they are fairly easy to pencil in.
...Hello everyone.
So I have decided to write about my experience so far , as I have so much going on in my head I need to talk to someone and feel my family just don't get it.
years ago I was told I had a benign optic chiasm glioma. And at my age it was very rare and that because it wasn't causing any trouble they would just monitor it. To which I wasn't upset and knowing what I know now. I should of been.
8 months later I had a routine MRI and now told it's milignant and I need...
I started chemo last week. My nose has become a dripping tap, my tummy is a pin cushion and I am enjoying the fact I have hair for now.
I have no idea what I am doing. I have never blogged before and I have no idea if it will help.
Tomorrow I start the last leg of the treatment plan and commence radiotherapy. After this, I will just need to go for regular checks and pop a pill each day for the next 10 years. Sounds easy.
Two in as many weeks. You can tell the cancer is invading my life more than usual.
I often feel that the only time I write this blog is when I am down. Or something happens. Of course life goes on in the background. The day to day of housework, school, dinner and the general monotony of life. Having cancer does not mean that you can not do this stuff. You just have to do more. Even when you are dog tired, the pain killers aren't working and your body is screaming at you to sit down. You still...
My older daughter is an artist living several hundred miles away. She desperately wants to support me in this and has come up with a way I think is pure genius. For the next 6 months, she is making me a weekly wig out of found materials which she is posting on Instagram (under the name, hannah_pererin). This week's was made out of foil plates. They're not made to be worn, just to make me smile. Which they do. In abundance! Roll on Mondays!
Facing chemo, I felt the need to be strong. Grateful for all the medical interventions and support, I nevertheless felt the need to retain some element of control, to hold on to my identity and, as far as possible, my sense of humour during the process. Spending a day in a chair requires comfortable clothes, but I chose the brightest shirt I could find - a bright pink silk top. Despite the fact that no-one could see them, I wore my new mastectomy undies in deep pink and the child in me delighted...
Just a bit of background - I found a lump in my left breast (after several weeks of intermittent pain) and saw my doctor on the 11th August , referred by her to the local (Sheffield) breast clinic with an appointment on the 15th August. After a consultation and mammogram , off to the radiologist who also had a very good look around in my underarm area- he took two core biopsies (which hurt!) and at that point I was expecting the news that it was suspicious - which when I saw the consultant half...
I finally had the results of my scan on my liver. The tumour has shrunk but is only deemed to be borderline for surgery. Therefore they have recommended a further three months of chemo.
I was initially very disappointed as the only way I will be ‘cured’ is with surgery to both my rectum and liver. But I have to go with the experts in this. The good news is that the chemo has been doing its job.
I went to see my oncologist at my local hospital yesterday to discuss the further chemo. She...
