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Just took hubby to the station for his early train into work. He looked awful and the lingering smell of last night's dinner in the kitchen made him feel very nauseous. It is now day 6 of the first round of chemo. Tomorrow he has to go to the hospital to have the chemo bag changed for another week and then he will have two weeks off.
As I watched him walk towards the platform, I could have wept. He walks slowly and with effort, but he is determined to not let the side effects get the better...
I have just shaved all my hair - well, the sparse tufty bits that were hanging on - off. I borrows a friends hair clippers. How weirdly liberating in a arrgghh I'm bald isn't it quite amusing in an odd way!! :D
We got the new expresso/cappuchino machine working this evening - no LM, it's NOT red and shiny like yours, its black and shiny, which I guess matches the slow cooked Hehehehe! - and it's very fast! No more lurking waiting for the cafeterie (sp?) to brew and plunge it etc...
So I arrive at hospital for 7 am. No food from midnight - well ten o'clock and no water from 6 am. All seems to go well. I am admitted and I meet the anaesthetist and surgeon/consultant who tells me what they are going to do - bit of a surprise as they still didn't know what they were dealing with and would decide once they were in!
Anyway at 9 am I get visit from surgeon - sorry but the equipment in the operating theatre isn't working and I am being moved to a different list. That will...
My lovely friend Sunny whom I love so much and wish i could hug for real is having a bad day and quite rightly so.
I am having a bad day and not rightly so at all... in the great scheme of things it isn't a big deal. I am alive and the sun is shining and my friends are all so much worse off than me and I should be making you laugh and smile and supporting instead so....
excuse this grump. Its just a little one. Ignore me and go and read yesterdays silly again instead. Just need a grumpy dump...
(*Warning this was my first day without Kev in three weeks, may seem so much less then it seems to me*)
So my mum and I are sitting in the waiting room yesterday waiting to see her chest consultant, her chest has been a bit bubbly since being put on and off the fentynl patches and changing medications around again. The clocks ticking and its time for her to take her oxynorm (been given the go ahead to give it to mum every two hours if pain is severe, today she last had it at 4am its now 12.30 and...
Friends Reunited ............... ? I don't know if it's just me but since this new site launch nothing has been the same, I have experienced difficulties with making replies to blogs and so forth - however, that problem has come to light and is hopefully being addressed ( Internet Explorer 9 ) So whilst I can gain access using my hubby's laptop - different browser - I shall try and make the most of it.
As so many of you have already pointed out, the lack of a more visual friend's activities...
Look, i know i probably upset a couple people today, but you have no idea how upset i am. I wont be back in chat for a few days, I dont feel welcome in there anymore. And i feel i have lost one of my closest mac friends!!!!!!!!
I never intended to hurt anyone but i must have, Like i keep saying, Im really sorry. I feel so invisible in that room sometimes.. Its like the new song says....
Even when I'm walking on a wire
Even when I sat myself on fire
Why do I always feel invisible, invis...
So Mum had agreed to do a drug trial, NET is rare so getting enough people for the trial was expected to take years. Mum joined a couple of years into the trail after numerous tests to make sure she was suitable, not too far gone and with adequate liver function. She seemed to really enjoy it, she loved the team looking after her, she had regular check ups, tests, scans and filled in lots of surveys. She ended up in the baseline group having the standard chemo treatement for NET. She was lucky, she...
Mum's journey began before she even new it. She had problems with her digestive system in 2004, her GP diagnosed IBS and treated her for it for the next 2 years. No tests were done. Mum kept going back to the doctors and they kept treating her for IBS as her problems got worse.
After a disastrous holiday in Portugal where she was very ill on the flights both ways and for the most of the holiday (she assumed she had food poisening or a tummy bug) she went back to the doctors in Sept 2006, She...
Oh yes. It was the end of the first week hearing bad news for my little brother (term used loosely as he is 6' 3".
Dougy got home and broke his heart crying but then pulled himself together and started taking over the evening visiting so that my Mumsy could get a little rest and I could look after her. It seemed like forever waiting for the results of the biopsy and in the 5 days waiting Dougy had to endure BB who seemed to be at the hospital continually. After three days of this he came...
