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December 23rd, not even 4 months ago, though at times it feels like 4 years or 4 days depending on the fluctuation of mood.
Decisions, decisions.... December 23rd.... Informed will be having a Mastectomy after treatments..
Re-construction or not ?
Re-construct ! Re-construct ! Re-construct.. !!!!
No need to think, great so you chop it off, then build it back again..
Simple, no quandaries, no angst deciding...
DD one side and Zilch tother... No Thank You..
But, of course, simplicity can have transient...
I'm at a loss after my husband of 40 yrs lost his fight to blood cancer MDS .....he had a bone marrow transplant last June plus top up cells in December .We thought he had turned a corner but caught my cold in January this year which turned into pneumonia and sepsis shock it was so quick .
After him going through everything it seems so unfair it was the day before our 40th anniversary they turned the ventilator off .
Now 11 weeks on I'm just going over everything can not sleep and can not stop...
Hi Ladies, sorry if this appears twice but not sure if I have posted correctly. I had DCIS breast cancer in 2014, follow up mammogram year later which was relatively uneventful but have just had my 2nd year check up and the mammogram on my operated breast was so painful I am worried that this is because the cancer has returned. The "healthy" breast was fine but my other was excrutiatingly painful and I was at a point nearly telling her to stop it was that bad. It has definitely put me off mammograms...
i am not sure what to do.. my dad passed away on the 6th of feb to cancer to the gullet and i was there with the rest of the family soon as he passed it hit all my family bad part from me yes i feel so sad in side but when i feel the tears i stop myself and now i feel so angry in side as i cant remember his voice i sit for hrs thinking of times we have talked and i cant here his voice.. i feel this anger is coming out on others and i dont want that as i know we all feel sad i just dont know...
Today it is one month since Pete died. It has been the longest and foulest month of my life. I exist, no more. I get up, walk the dogs, try to eat, shower, drink too much, and go back to bed to lie awake most of the night. There is nothing more than that, no happiness, no enjoyment, no interest in anything. The only feelings are bad ones, sadness and misery. The reality of loss keeps hitting me. Over and over again, and each time like the first.
I am trying. I have met one other widow for...
I'm still in a lot of pain. Self medicating with Ibuprofen and paracetemol. Is there anything else that might do a better job? The main problem is sleeping. Once I wake I find it really difficult to get back to sleep.
So far I've only told very few people about my cancer. I travelled to Yorkshire yesterday to tell my Mum and brother. Mum's 87 and we lost my Father to bowel cancer 7 years ago. I couldn't tell her in the end. I don't know why. I convinced myself that she wouldn't understand and...
It's been a while...
What have we been up to? Mostly university stuff. Oh.... and not having any treatment...
I'd like to say that cancer has vacated our lives since the no evidence of disease, but it hasn't. It is still with us everyday. Perhaps not every min of every hour but hourly at least. The Sword of Damacles feeling if you will?
We had been getting back into some form of routine, our new normal, and I was feeling quite well.
I have been able to be the old me for a while, collect...
My Dad is now home from being in Hospital for over a week. He met some very nice people in there, Got up to misschief. But he was looked after really well.
Being in there with infection wasn't nice but he got through it, At times it was tough but with the right medication and family and freinds he was soon home. Now in a mini hospital bed with his TV in front of him he's happy, We are all happy to have him home our Dog Molly is also very happy to have her Dad home.
It will soon be a year since I received the conclusive diagnosis, after a biopsy, that I had cancer. Starting in the left tonsil and spreading to two lymph nodes, it was staged at T3 N2B. I had no symptoms. It came to light only because a sore throat had lingered after a cold, causing me to look down my throat with a mirror and notice that my left tonsil - the site of the primary tumour - was much larger than the right one.
I finished my radio- and chemotherapy treatment on 10 July, a date I shall likely never...
Hi all,can anyone out there give me some advise on how to cope with dealing and copeing with my terminal husband?My darling was diagnosed with bowel cancer in nov2015 we were told that all went well after his op and he started a course of chemo in Jan this year but by the fifth course he was having a lot of pain in his back and constipated most of the time.He finally got to have a cat scan and a new cancer had come back near his kidney but too deep to operate.We were told last Thursday that he is...
