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Hello world, my mum who is 62 has advanced lung cancer and there talking chemo to manage the symptoms. The news has been somewhat of shock and they have said that if mum doesnt get her chemo this week she will have a few more weeks to live, but she has got a chest infection and she was meant to have it on friday. The doctor on CDU told my family it wasnt going to happen and now the nurse on the oncolgy has said that he had no right to say what he did he wasnt the speicalist.
Right now we await the...
Well I managed to go and conduct my training session, I called the hospital when I left Aberdeen and then again when I got to Elgin to check he was ok, the nurse told me he had quite a night they had to get someone to sit with him as he was so agitated he managed to take his iv line out so it is now bandaged up so he cant get to it. He was a lot brighter when I went in tonight, I made myself ill worrying that he would be in the same state again but he was sitting up in the bed he doesnt have the...
Day 2 I have felt very nausious today but kept vomiting at bay with anti- emetics and ginger buscuits, ( Good excuse to eat them) I feel starving all the time, can't stop eating. Have decided that it is probably due to the fact that I can't drink and I am probably thirsty. ( Why couldn't it have been the other way round) Am trying to drink tea and coffee, I have bottled water but it tastes yuk at room temperature. Orange juice is about the nicest tasted but I have to wait until it too is...
hi there every-one - well i have had more tests done again - went for a scan on my jaw and biopsy on lymphnode in my neck yesterday - i am seeing the specialist again on tuesday so hoping they will be able to give me some idea as to how we are going to fight this thing - this waiting and having tests done is realy hard but then i suppose it is only in our own interests that they do this - they need to get a full picture of what is going on then they are able to offer us the proper treatment plan for...
well, i managed to get through the meeting with social services. there were two people there and a woman taking notes. i also took notes. i think that they had intended to wrap it up there and then, and push the whole awkwardly inconveniant episode behind them. awkwardly inconveniant being my father's end of life care or lack of, being undermedicated when dying in pain, lack of nursing and more.
they began with telling me the positives that had come from the experience. that the nursing home...
I lost my husband on 13th september, i know it was only 7 weeks ago but i just feel completely lost, the only thing keeping me going is my 12yr old son. Everything just seems so pointless, i really don't want to go anywhere or do anything, friends keep telling me how strong i'm being but they don't know how i really feel inside as i can't talk to anyone about what happen or about how i really feel, how can i talk to anyone or tell them when i can't put any of it into words. Weekends are the worst...
After using the front line title in my last blog was maybe a bit psychic of me. Today I went back to work, I called the hospital this morning before I left to check dad was ok, his blood pressure had come up a little and he had a comfy night which was good news. Mum went to see him this afternoon and she said he was drowsy so there wasnt much conversation, I expected him to be pretty much the same when I got there tonight, man was I wrong. I have never seen him so worked up and angry and frustrated...
Got my seasonal flu jab on Monday. Pretty uneventful, just a bit tired later on. Government circular recommends getting swine flu jab too as high risk, but GP says no. Another question for the consultant.
Still getting back pain. Painkillers barely touch it. Seeing the consultant about on Wednesday when I have the next chemo shot. Hopefully it's just muscular and not a result of the melanoma spreading. Fingers crossed.
Well he done it !! He has managed to get home after 7 weeks of all sorts of infection. They will see him in the clinic next Thursday and decide then when to do the Bone Marrow Aspiration then it will be discussed when Transplant will go ahead, it appears not to be the 9th of Dec now who knows when I suspect this side of the year though as he will need to have more chemo if not.
Hopefully we will manage to get a decent sleep now that he is home
Love Teri
