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Second time around - and faced with FEC 100. 9 years ago my mastectomy was followed by radiotherapy and tamoxifex. I didnt have to loose my hair or have my body pumped full of killer drugs. When I look back over the last 2months I think the news that I would have chemo came as more of a shock than the news that I had cancer again!
Listen to your body ladies - Oncologist, Mammogram, Ultrasound and Radiologist all said everything was clear. I had been there before 9 years ago and My body was telling...
14th May 2011
Last week my 2 year old son was happily running around in the park, chasing after our two dogs. On the Friday afternoon, my wife had taken him to the GP, concerned about a rash on his body. The doctor thought it was menengitis and sent him to the County Hospital for tests. When the consultant came in with the result of the blood test, the last thing that any of my family expected was to hear the word 'Leukaemia'.
Once the diagnosis was made, everything was put into place to...
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Not to good today I can.t stop crying, I think the last few weeks have eventually caught up with me.
My auntie popped in this afternoon she wasn;t in the house five min and she started talking about a programme that was on the BBC last night about death she proceded to tell my mom about this man and how he died and how he wasn't in any pain at the end.
I just couldn't believe what I was hearing, she made me so angry I had to get up and walk out of the room, I wanted to say something but...
Hi everybody. I've not been on for a while.Finished Radio and got pet scan. Was waiting to see consultant and my stomache exploded.(perritinitus or something) That was about 3 weeks ago and I've been in hospital since. Been told nothing else they can do(now terminal) and trying to get things organised about getting home for a while.I have an ilioscamy bag on my small intestine and a drainage bag on large intestine.i thought can't get worse until today when a hole has appeared on my wound.and...
At the risk of being a moaning boring old dragon, I am now 7 long days since diagnosis, i know its a short time in the normal world, in my world at the mo its a long long time. how selfish I am to want the time to fly by, how selfish i am to sit here moaning and groaning instead of getting my act together.
I am truly struggling with all of the gaps inbetween each visit to the consultant, appts for scan appts for biopsy and finally the results appt, where they are going to tell me what i already...
This week I reached another long-awaited goal - for the first time in almost three years I had a taste of bread ! It was a rather messy operation because it was necessary to ' dunk ' the piece of bread into my tomato soup to make it softer - where's a bib when you need one ? But, with a lot of effort I did manage to eat the biggest part of a wholemeal roll........wonderful !
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Well what day full of emotions again, my mom had her results today of her the CT scan she had last week. It was abit of a mixed bag really, the consultant said the cancer has spread again its seems a bit worse in her back. But he did say they wasn't really sure if it was the radiotherpy or if it was the cancer.
He won'ts her to start a differant kind of chemo ( tablet form) but he told us NHS does not fund it so he will have to apply for it, at this point I must admiit my heart went...
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I joined the chat room 3 weeks ago. I am a carer looking after my Dad who now has a prognosis of 4 weeks. Without the friends in chat, i dont know how i would have coped. I feel, lately, by the comments of another blog that carers are not welcome. I am sad about this and would value your views? sue xxx
I have just been diagnosed with breast cancer, well in fact just 5 long whole days ago. I am not sure how I am feeling as it is all still quite surreal i am numb. I think i may have lost touch with reality or in total denial.......................
Before i know it i will be going through a mastectomy in the next two weeks, i want the slice and dice to be over, i want the chemo now! I want to cry, shout scream and ask the question we probably all do initially WHY.
My family are wonderful but are strugg...
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