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Now my mum is a widow, the other day she said to me "I should have supported you more, I didn't realise what you were going through".
Only now that she has lost her husband, does she understand the emotional anguish that I had to deal with while maintaining routines and supporting my children through the loss of their father.
What frustrates me is that as I know what she is going through and support her, she has no consideration to the fact that I am also dealing with the fact that...
I went up to The Christie on Thursday for my 3-weekly review (no Mytomycin this time). My friend from York met me at the station and we grabbed a nice lunch and a quick tour of the art gallery, as we usually do, before going to the hospital. The blood test revealed that my neutrophils are back to normal but unfortunately my platelets are low. I'm certainly getting to know a bit about all the different white blood cells! The oncologist I saw was a bit concerned. He said that because I'd had a fair...
Last time I wrote about my issue with constipation and I didn't write until today because this blog post might have ended up being about nothing more.
However, following a brief meeting with the on-call doctor on Wednesday and a prescription for Movicol (and also 14!!!! enemas just in case) some movement has happened - woohoo - it's these little but important things that are the focus at the moment. I have stopped taking Cocodamol and until last night (Friday) have been getting by on paracetamol...
4/33, Monday 31 March, and a new week. Coughing less but London pollution and the Sahara desert sands are making me cough, especially with my asthma. A scan was included today. Whilst waiting for the water to filter through to my bladder (4 cups, my decision), one of the team tool me aside for chat. Her name was Mitch, and she told me I would be given the chance to talk to her, or a colleague, each week. She wore a grey uniform but her two colleagues wore blue, one the ‘large, Polish lady’ named...
Hi I start chemotherapy soon and have had one cycle of IVF treatment which was not successful. My oncologist recommended I have one more cycle of IVF before the chemo to give it another chance. However the fertility dept has said I will need to pay £5000+ for this as only one cycle is funded on the NHS. Does anyone have any advice please?
