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I think it has finally hit me.
My gorgeous husband Sam was diagnosed with soft tissue sarcoma in 2006 after having a lump removed from his thigh that he had had for as long as he could remember. We first met in 2003 in Glasgow where we were on a course together. We both worked for the same organisation. I am a Welfare Officer and sitting in the bar on our first night he told me that his son had died due to cancer, aged 9, the previous September. My heart went out to him and we spent most of that...
Have to be honest - every day is good since perhaps beginning of March. Last year was horrible - walking 10 paces left me struggling for breath - then I was diagnosed which was even worse. And then ... the treatment started.
Well we went to the appointment at the pain clinic. It seems his liver is now playing up his blood tests showed up something, they are going to re-do the test next week then act. It doesnt help that dad has so much complications they are limited with what they can do for him, the steroids did not work so they have been stopped. There is definately something different about dad just now, I think that the heart may be willing but the body is now saying no.
I feel so terriby upset. I have just upset my poor 82 year old mum by shouting at her and telling her that she doesn't care about me. That she worries that her 87 year old sister is going to die, that my sisters ulcerative colitis is bad, that my brother is hard of hearing and lives alone. That the neighbour next door is going blind and he lives alone. That my brothers daughter has learning difficulties. My mum might be 82 but she is fit she works 4 days a week 8 hours a day in my brothers fruit...
Just got back from the doctors and the lump is nothing to worry about whoooooo so hopefully I will manage to get some shut eye tonight, thanks fr the offer Carol but hopefully the fact that I feel knackered but overwhelmingly relieved will result in a silent night.
Have also taken the bull by the horns and booked my haircut for Wed afternoon so looking forward in a weird way to that. Might just have to go and spoil myself tomorrow and have a foot massage mmmmmmm sounds good to me.
Positivity breeds...
Another pants night trying to find a comfortable position to lie and get some sleep but managed at last to fall off about 3 ish (seems to be the new witchinh hour for me these days) and was rudely woken at 5.45 by hubby's new all singing all beeping alarm clock. Managed to be civil and shared a coffee before he departed for his daily drive into London and went back upstairs witht eh idea of geting maybe just another hour before the rest of the house woke. Suprisingly I was wide awake and sleep evaded...
hello my conspiritors all!
Well my doctor has just been to see the problem with my ankle (is swollen and very painful)
it appears that her imformation is not that i have lympoma but that i have (small cell lung cancer)
and my foot is infected and thus the reason for the swelling and the awful pain its dishing out, so antibicriotics are been arrayed to treat it wiv.
Last week one of the practise doctors advised me to add to the amount of warfarin i was taking tp make it six , Today i have been...
Hello
I wondered if anyone else on here has got or has heard of Carcinoid Syndrome?
I am currently having tests to confirm i have it.
I have suffered for last 18 months with chronic diahrea and facial flushing. Pain under left rib.
I am recovering at the moment from thyroid cancer and my oncologist has now just done blood tests on calcitonin, cga levels and 24 urine levels for serotinin.
I believe if any come back raised this means i have tumour somewhere in body. (prob liver)
Please if anyone...
