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I'd hoped if I slept on it I might be a little less crazy but erm apparently not! I am somewhat proud of myself for being able to talk myself out of a panic attack before it took over (and anyone at work could notice) but I am still no less convinced of new and scary lumps and bumps on my body. Little red dots that I've had for years are now getting an eagle-eyed inspection and the lump in my neck which I'm now 5% sure is a tumour, 70% sure is my voice box, 10% sure is my lymph nodes and 15% sure...
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I've been having persistant pain in my leg for about 6 weeks now. My doctors sent me for an xray and there is a 5cm tumour near the top of my left femur, it is within the bone. From the xray they have said it looks cancerous. I have been referred to Birmingham ROH for biopsies. I've a million questions to ask and just in complete limbo as I know it will be a few weeks before I get any results.
If anyone has any advice or suggestions I could be doing while I wait for my results it would...
My god I'm a misery today. My poor fiancé went out without me in the end because I just couldn't shake that nagging feeling behind the eyes that the tears might start. I wanted to be left alone to wallow if I'm being honest with myself but it didn't achieve anything. I've ignored all the calls to my phone today and I've had to stop myself reading the threads of others here who are fighting a far bigger battle and are 100x braver than I. I feel selfish and awful for it but I'm not winning the battle...
My husband got skin cancer 5 years ago.I've been looking after him.Now I I have been told I have a BCC on my nose,inner side near where my glasses rub,,,,it will need a skin graft,
They were one doctor short when I attended on Jube 2nd so the biopsy was not done.What i'd like to know is whether a biopsy is essential or whether they could go ahead and remove the entire nodule without a separate biopsy
.I am already having a sad and anxious time because my...
According to my haematologist B Cell lymphomas on the skin look like little strawberries, so I guess that means I'm now a human strawberry plant? I wanted to come back as a penguin or a cat in my next life but in this i am basically the world's most useless superhero. Even Aquaman is more impressive than a ginger growing strawberries. What can you use this super power for? Oh yes, I can save the poor strawberry-less people at Wimbledon. What a super hero! I can save exactly zero people...good for...
I never realised I would need to tell so many people. Or that I would at times have to suppress the urge to tell others who really don't need to know.
Family and close friends obviously top the list and with mine scattered so far and wide I had to resort to phone, email and Facebook private messaging.
My poor husband found out by phone from the friend who accompanied me to my appointment with my gynaecologist. I'd thought I was going to talk about options for treating fibroids; my body had...
The last 48 hours have been both elating and gutting. This time yesterday morning I was sat with a lovely friend snotting for England because I was finally getting to grips with the fact that it's my cancer and I'll cry if I want to. Admittedly a lot of the tears were yet again bought on by guilt. I had read the specific book for the type of lymphoma I have on the lymphoma website and thanks to its wonderful news that basically this is a lifetime membership I was distraught and then so was my poor...
Caring for someone with cancer is utterly exhausting. Caring for someone I love with all my heart is exhausting yes, but also such a privilege. Every minute of my waking day now is focused on getting everything right - the meds, the food, the rest, the moving about, the sleep, the social interaction, the just about everything. I have no idea how I get through each day. I'm not even on auto pilot but I am managing to get through.
We are in such a fluid situation with things changing every few...
So this evening I finally had a decent "it's not fair" flood of tears and despair moment...and it was only a little bit because I realised in all the tests and worry this week that I'd forgotten we were supposed to go see Derren Brown, thought it was tonight, got halfway out the door and realised it was actually on Monday. To be honest the devastated look on my lovely fiancés face was enough to make the toughest of female eye leaking dodgers start.
I know it's life. We haven...
