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I’m still at that point where I’m just numb & fuzzy about everything.
I received a phone call Friday from the hospital asking me to attend an appointment Monday, I said I was working so couldn’t attend. The nurse/assistant was very insistent that I should attend but I was just as insistent that I was working and couldn’t just take a day off. She was very put out by this and said they would have to call back later.
I have had a few appointments for a couple of things...
Not having seen my GP for 15 years, and never been an inpatient as an adult, it came as bit of a shock to find myself passing blood in my urine, pain while trying to pee, and complete lack of sleep.
So I made an urgent appointment to see my GP. He passed me over to A and E, and then I spent a couple of nights in my local (small) hospital. It seems I had a tumour in my bladder.
Sent by Air Ambulance from Orkney( where I live) to Ward 44 Aberdeen Royal Infirmarmy where i spent 8 nights and a lot...
It's been nearly a year since my last blog, and firstly i would like to apologise for not replying to the individuals that posted very nice and encouraging comments on it.
its now been 2 and a half years, I've left school, i'm in my second year at college, and am planning to go to university next year to study to be a nurse, where i can then progress into training to become a Macmillian nurse. The help and support the nurses gave my family and i has inspired me to help others that are...
Been a mad few months since I was diagnosed...
But finally home and have the time to join the Community here and to start sorting out my head and how I feel about all this :O)
I'll post up more details of what's happened to me and where I'm up to soon but just saying Hello and seeing who's around right now.
So if anyone has similar experiences please say hello!
Well its been a few weeks now since Mum passed away. I miss her like crazy . The evenings are the worst I miss the little chats and putting the world to rights . We would have a little giggle . Only a few weeks until I take her back to Australia and put her to rest with her mum and dad as promised .
I keep being told it will get easier ,but I am not so sure .. maybe I will learn to live with it but right now it tough .. too tough . I would do anything to have her back .. nagging me
All I can say...
Hi everyone, it's been a long while since I updated my blog, so long in fact that I couldn't figure out how to add to my old one so have made a new one, hope this works :)
I have been to hospital this week for my review and have got the all clear again and have been changed to 6 month reviews, so happy and am feeling good.
The only thing that I still have is night sweats, but the chemo put me in to menopause and night sweats can be a symptom of that too. This is both reassuring and worrying...
The Hooken landslide, East Devon
It's one of those peculiar syndromes that you can you live near a place for years, and never get around to visiting it. We'd seen pictures of the Hooken landslide in East Devon Coast and Country magazine a while back, but never gone to see it. Yesterday promised good weather, so Irene and I took a day out.
We took the infrequent local bus to Branscombe and had lunch at Branscombe Mouth, a popular visitors' spot on the coast. From there a path goes eastward...
Slowly emerging from Zombieland. Why is everything so exhausting? AND I can't seem to get comfortable to sleep. Not so good.
Still, today I feel almost normal, I can concentrate on typing this, so that's a good thing. Still don't think I'll drive today, so will miss out on a nice picknick with friends, but they'll understand. It looks like the chemo demands a week out of life.
Here's a question: what to do about the horrid taste in my mouth? I am drinking lots and while I...
I went into town today with my husband, not so strange you might think, but after looking into the windows of a few familiar shop windows we decided to into a pleasant looking pub we had drunk in before. My husband always has a few beers when we go out, I, usually drink coffee or fruit juices. Not today !! I fancied a large glass of wine, infact I had three, now I hardly ever drink. We decided to get up and part company, I decided to go on a charity shop hunt and husband was going on a hunt for gadgets...
just got back from my fifth and penultimate chemo. i suffered horrendously after the last one and the doc couldnt say it wont happen this time but i now own a small pharmacy with detailed instructions for all the 'if this happens..' scenarios.
was booked in at 9.15 and as i had bloodtest tues the chemo was signed off hold so it would be all go go go.... actually it was all no no no. the herceptin had been held up so 2 hours late off we go go go.
my portacath wouldnt bleed and as i am on...
