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My follow up with the consultant involved regular blood tests to monitor the PSA level. My initial appointment in August 2005, showed the reading was <0.1, too small to register. Every six months, a blood test confirmed the reading, until 2012, when a reading of 0.1 showed that there was some sort of activity. The next two readings stayed at 0.1 then it rose to 0.2. The consultants started to talk about radio therapy as an option, but I preferred to ‘watch and wait’, despite their insistence. In...
My visit to dear Dr Onc this morning was a success! We got on well! He had good news and explained than my apparent rise in PSA was a mistake, it's too early after only two weeks on abiraterone and things are going on OK. He was pleased with my progress and said so!
I'm so embarrassed to have sounded off as I did yesterday and acted as though my life was over. Thank you those who posted some sense to me even before you could have known it was OK after all.
What a difference a day makes...
I had the biopsy on the 23/12/13. then had to wait two week's for the result. within a couple of day's the burning sensation was subsiding and I was urinating almost normally. I was feeling so much better. then on the 14/1/14. I went to the hospital to hear the result's. I was expecting good new's because I felt so well.( I'm going to cut this short because I don't have a lot of time I should be hoovering) the doctor Introduced a nurse. a Macmillan Nurse. he then shuffled some paper's looked at me...
Things are changing...
We had had our first Macmillan nurse visit and it was as if the weight of the world was lifted from my shoulders. I hadn't known what a care package was or that I could have had support. She managed to do in 10 minutes on the phone what I'd been trying to do for weeks.
I had last managed to get a GP out to my Dad back in October and when ever I rang and asked for a visit I had to explain the problem and a prescription was faxed to my chemist
Dad went downhill very...
A blog is supposed to be a personal account of the cancer journey. I've waited a few days before posting anything more, hoping or improvement. This hasn't happened.
First of all my wife; she is much worse and is almost unable to get about at all. We went to see the rheumatologist, I call her the Headmistress, who has diagnosed three things; osteoporosis, osteoarthritis and gout. My wife has been on the Headmistress's treatment for several months now but is worse rather than better. So...
I have had this little marble size lump for almost 15 years in my left breast. It is situated just of my at the bottom of my left breast.
I noticed it when I was 42, I am now 57. I remember going to my GP and he poked and prodded and said 'It is nothing'. So I went away, but I was still worried. I tried through the GP's receptionist to get a referral to the breast clinic from the GP, but it was no go. So I rang the breast clinic myself and was given a appointment.
My friend who had...
Just read back my last blog. So much and so little has happened since then.
Hubby has done really well.
He got into routine with stoma (ileostomy). Changing bag once a day was the best for him. Two days and he got itchy from the glue. Emptying became regular at about four hours after eating. Usually once through the night. Gurgling was occasional only and only two night time leaks - the cut off waistband from a pair of tights held the half folded ostomy bag too comfortably and didn't wake him with...
Almost 3 years since my diagnosis, it was just a routine 6 month check up. Except, the Oncologist says "I'll see you in 4 months" due to my Ca125 being slightly elevated from last time. It was disappointing but I assured myself that she was just being overly cautious UNTIL 2 days later when I got the call to say my Pap Smear was slightly abnormal.
And so it begins ..... all the old fears return. I haven't shared this with anyone yet (apart from hubby who is trying desperately to hide...
