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Side effect of chemo includes dry mucous membranes - can be a problem in tender areas where hair once grew and now no longer does!! To avoid urinary tract infections drink lots of fluid but Waitrose baby butter also helps to keep outside areas moist, and friction free - no artificial ingredients either. - Just thought this might help someone - happened upon it by accident.
..........How can I expect poor old Dad be positive when I feel so negative? Obviously he isn't aware I am negative but he must feel negative if I feel negative and I am not ill. I worry about Mum too - she is anxious for the meeting tomorrow, fearing the worst I think.
Where is this miracle we have been waiting for?
Hi today mom as started the sutant tablet she was realy upset on monday and worried about starting ths treatment even though we have been to the hospital ant spoke to chemo nurse the after effects, we cannt beleve them.we are all very worried about her dnt realy no what to expect .she has to take the tablet in 6 week sessions 4 weeks on 2 weeks off in the 2 weeks off more blood tests and scans .
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I new on the block. On New Year's day they found a tumour on by mum's spine she needed to have major surgery she survived this and it took some time to come up with a diagnosis. She has grade 3 myeloma and a mixture of slow and aggressive cells, just got the news yesterday. She is being admitted into the Marsden tomorrow as a inpatient for intensive treatment hopefully have a stem cell transplant. I have scared myself silly researching this particular cancer. I guess I am looking for support...
My specialist nurse phoned me up to say no need to make the journey in has results have come back clear! What an amazing feeling i just wish all of you amazing people could feel it
Love to you all x x x x
HAD SOME GOOD NEWS, THE TUMOUR ALTHOUGH ALIVE HAS NOT SPREAD TO THE LYMPH GLANDS AS EARLIER TOLD, NEED AN OP TO REMOVE, DUE TO C O P D MAY NOT BE POSSIBLE, IF NOT RADIUM AND CHEMO , WILL UNDERTAKE A LUNG FUNCTION TEST TOMMOROW WEDNESDAY17 TH FEB TO DETERMINE THE SOLUTION, SO RELEAVED, THANK YOU ALL FOR KIND WORDS AND THOUGHTS, NOT OUT OF THE WOODS YET, BUT LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL
Bert is still fighting, I din't know how but he is. We had a few scares at the weekend where I had to call the kids in several times but he keeps on rallying round.
He is sedated all the time now because the agitation was just getting worse, the fact that he could not remember stuff really upset him. He has to get his lungs suctioned several times a day to get everything off his chest so he can breathe. It sounds like he is drowning in his own secretions it is so hard to watch. They told me...
How much more bad news can they give me ?
We were given the results of the last 2 scans its in her Kidneys and in the bone as well as the brain .
Dr Jane told mum that there is no need to see the nerologist ,-i think up till now she thought he was going to give her a cure.
The news had finally sunk in to her so very hard when your mum says Jayne i'm coming home to die !
We cried together , i cried all the way home ,then i cried when i saw John (my husband ) and we cried.
Tonight i have to...
First time on the site. Found a lump in my breast a couple of weeks ago and am at the hospital on Thursday.
Done some surfing on the Internet and kind of know what to expect, but am worried sick.
Just wanted to share -(
I went to see the surgeon yesterday the one who saved my life when my bowel burst.
We discussed the reversal of my stoma, he is going to refer me in 2 months when I have gotten over my chemo which ends at the end of March.
I was hoping he would refer me now due to waiting times etc. I want to be put back together again before september when I am due to go to my boyfriends grandaughters wedding in Zante. At this rate I guess I will still have my stoma.
I have gotten used to my friend, but will be...
