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they are deleting my vulval support groups so i will no longer be on here ! anyone with any need to talk plkease email me. Good luck to you all kind regards lynda
Hi all, i`m new on here not reall sure its where i wanna b as it makes this all to real intead of a bad dream. I feel alone in my thoughtseveryone always asks how my hubby is but never how am i, well i am finding it hard too..My hubby was diognosed with GMB4 in feb 2010 when he was admitted to hospital with a stroke, after having all the tests n scan they discovered a mass in his brain, he had a biopsy where it was dicovered that it was malignant tumour, he then had surgery involving debulking of...
I have been taking Glivec for 3months now, thought it was going smoothly, then this month my body was going crasy, I had rash every where, itching in all my body could not sleep. My body was burning with heat and then suddenly it slows down then goes again and again.. My hands starts to have some spots then get redish and then rash rash,,, Do not know what to expect.
On 9th May 2011, i got the call that changed my life and my families lives forever. It was my Mum, my Dad had collapsed at home and had been rushed to hospital. Despite numerous tests they were unable to determine what was wrong with him. The next morning the hospital rang to tell us he had a severe case of Pneumonia and was in the Critical Care Unit, he also had an extremely low white blood cell count which was preventing him from fighting the illness and they couldn't figure out why until the Bone...
Yesterday was the hardest day of my life. The past week has not been good.
Thursday - Mick attended the Hospice Day Care, I went to pick up 9 year old grandaughter (70 miles away). On arriving home I received a call to say he was coming home on the ambulance bus instead of the normal volunteer's car. At home he told me that the doctor had wanted to admit him to the ward but he'd refused.
Friday - Had a call from nurse at day care to ask how Mick was because the ward wanted to know whether...
Well Ian finished his treatment on June 27th, has been back for follow up but has to wait till end of September for follow up scan and endoscopy.
I feel its back to the start the waiting!!!!!!!!!
Ian is swallowing a bit better, one day all food goes down, then the next none goes down. So one day we feel good and positive and the next not so positive.
He was very lucky and the treatment went well he had hardly any side effects, his hearing has been affected and suffered constipation during the...
Started my 3rd course of Sutent yesterday Bring it on!!!!!
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