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Well yesterday my issues were with the generation gap as it proved a difficult day for bridging the generation gap after our teenager son seemed to turn into a youthful "MR Mildrew" and complained about how "stupid" the world was or how unfair the establishment was with him. I swear that wars have been started with less passion than he had yesterday! And it was utterly frustrating that no matter what, I couldn't get through to him that it could be his perception that was wrong. Hopefully it was a...
I have to head to bed now. I have a Scan for IVF tomorrow, followed by another MRI. The MRI is the latest step in trying to qualify for the trachelectomy.
I will continue tomorrow with more info on the planned next steps.
The reason I have time now to sit around and write blogs, is because I have chosen to delay treatment while I go through a cycle of IVF. It's a small gamble, and I wanted to take what may be my last chance to do this.
The goal of this is to hopefully get a few eggs, fertilize them, and then freeze the embryos created - for use somehow in the future.
FYI. Eggs themselves can't be frozen. Or rather, the success rates are really really low. Embryos can be frozen with a pretty high success rate...
Some of the more attentive of you may have noticed that I don't yet have children.
Despite rumours of screaming, and no sleep, and tantrums in shopping centres, for some reason I still seem interested in them! So far in life the fertility gods have not been that helpful, and that was before they decided to add cancer to the mix.
As you can probably imagine, cervical cancer is quite close to some pretty important baby making machinery. Boys - you may want to look away now... in fact, you...
Hi all,
As vaguely promised, this is a the start of a blog to let you know where I am with my treatment.
I'll be honest that the whole thing still feels like a bit of a story. I meet lots of doctors, and they all look very serious, and tell me I have to do more and more tests, but it still hasn't really sunk in I think.
It'll help me a bit to write it down, but feel free to skim through bits I've probably already told lots of you.
The story so far:
I went for a Pap smear in November...
Yes another Monday done and another week started. Though with the tiredness still hitting me, it wil still be some time before its back to a working week, but I am working on it (Pun intended!) :-) And as always still determined to keep my sense of humor (even if it does need working on!). So on we go and with the first 2 weeks of the new year underway, it hasnt been a bad start to the year. The snow tried to change that but didnt stick around to ruin the day. So all thats left to face now is ths...
When I got back home on Sunday this week, there was a letter from the hospital giving me a day surgery appointment for Thursday. I'm glad it is moving so quickly but quite worried about how I will feel after the operation and how long it will take to heal enough to be able to sit or walk easily.
I'm assuming the histopathology results will take a couple of weeks to come back, then I will have another appointment with the surgeon to discuss options for the second (reconstruction) surgery. ...
Southampton General Hospital is the Neurological specialist for the South Coast. After arriving there by ambulance I believe they recognised my symptoms. I was put on a course of intensive antibiotics.
The next day they carried out ECG, brain scans, chest x-rays as well as a magnetic scan of my stomach.
Once they had the results of the scans a neurosurgeon came up and displayed the head scan on a computer screen and pointed out what they thought was a brain tumour.
A brain tumour ...
Been a reasonable weekend, The usual tiredness and toilet issues but not enough to ruin the weekend or dampen my determiantion to fight through.However the most interesting thing was chatting in the macmillan chat rooms where i was taken back by how much people declare them self as "In remission" rather than declare themself as "clear of cancer".
It made me wonder if my optimism was remiss of me but hey, thats the way I am and even now as I consider the question again, I still...
