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  • Trishka's blog
    The Waiting Game
    I have not written here for a while and I know our friends and family living miles away will be wandering what's going on. Well, Cancer it seems is a big waiting 'game'. Alot of the stress is caused by just not knowing what is going to happen, or when. Waiting, waiting, waiting for intravenous drips to finish or scan results revealed. Appointments with surgeons cancelled, waiting to hear when the next appointnment will be - all totally out of your own control. It is so maddingly frustrating! Hubby...
    Former Member
  • zoelaw's blog
    Chapter 3
    All systems go. The last 2 weeks have been surreal and a real mixture of highs and lows. Joe started his first cycle of chemo (ECF) on friday at Cheltenham. What a lovely hospital, the nurses are fantastic and the consultant Dr Reed is kind, caring and positive. They have a tranquil garden by the Oncology unit and I sat out there while Joe was having a chest xray to check his PICC line. I felt something on my shoulder and it was a young robin, he just sat there for several minutes looking intently...
    Former Member
  • Welsh Sweetpea Jane's blog
    Ileostomy Reversal, carer/wife's perspective
    Any tips? The consultant might have joked that my husband is his fast track patient and let him out on the 2nd day post op, but..OMG - M has now turned into a man size, 9 month old, with mulitple urgent bowel movements(bm's) I feel so sorry for him, I didn't know the body was capable of so much output from so little input. Had yet another rough night (had broken sleep for last 6 days), managed to get off to sleep 6.30am, up for 3 bm's 8.30, still sleeping now and its about 10.30am, when he wakes...
    Former Member
  • sorted67's blog
    grey
    lazy day yesterday - washing, pottering, reading then decided to go for a walk to see a couple down the dale who'd invited us over before my treatment starts up again. Opened the door and it's pissistently raining. Again. So we drove. Had a look round their house - it's a longterm barn conversion - but the barn is right next to the house he and his family lived in for generations. Dad sold up when his wife died and moved away and son bought a pile of stones! They've been doing it as they could afford...
    Former Member
  • Luna's blog
    Clearing the air...
    Dear Mates, Thank you for your input on how to break the news to kids about cancer. Your personal stories made it easier for me to talk to my daughter. My husband and I sat down with our 9 year old daughter last night. She took the news in and gave me a hug. I borrowed here and there from your stories and wove one of my own. I feel like a weight has been lifted from my shoulders. I start chemo on September 10th and feel better about starting the treatment because I no longer feel like I am...
    Former Member
  • sarah61's blog
    Confused mind - going mad !!
    I wish I could get my head together and sort my mind out.One minute im crying the next im ok. I know, full well that my Dad died, I was there. But it does'nt seem real to me. I cant really comprehend that hes gone. Am I in denial ? am I mad? I expect to go to his house and hes still there. Been sorting through my photos of him tonight and when I look at the photos pre cancer which was only 10 months ago, I see Dad, Dad who's always been there, Dad which part of me thinks is still here. Still feeling...
    Former Member
  • Duchessx2's blog
    Finally
    Finally my Bobbie has had his last lot of chemo on Friday, he has been wonderful and made it through 18 sessions, now to face the radiotherapy in a few weeks time. He is not looking forward to this at all. We have also been given a wonderful surprise, our children have booked us a holiday to Crete (Greece) and they gave us the tickets yesterday and we fly off on Tuesday, not got a thing ready, but hey who cares, they know I am the worlds most unorganised person going, so its going to be all hands...
    Former Member
  • Sexy Voice Dawn's blog
    NEGLIGENCE
    Hi Everyone Hope you all having a decent long weekend xx I am in a real pickle at the moment. Need advice please. I have had 5 lots of bloods taken for thyroglobulin for the oncologist as they need to know levels. 5 times lab have now lost it or said they didn't get it or in wrong coloured topped bottle????? My endo, gastro and surgeon don't correspond with my oncologist or gp so know one knows what has been done or said. If i contact PALS at hosp they will all close ranks so should i go...
    Former Member
  • pam while's blog
    Advise and support needed!!
    Hi, I am about to have my third cycle of FEC on wednesday this week, but over the last few weeks I have developed very bad knee and ankle discomfort I am finding it very difficult to bend my knees and experiences pain in my ankles if I walk for more than 10 mins or so. Has anyone else suffered any of the these side effects from FEC? I don't know if it a side effect or something else, do I tell the oncologist or go to my GP. I would be grateful for any advise on what to do or if anyone else has had...
    Former Member
  • jgrubbs's blog
    3 years out and still having pain and itching
    My oncologist just released me because I'm doing so well (I'm 63) but my nipple has just started itching , is red and bumpy all of a sudden and I'm wondering if this is a come and go thing or if I need to get back in to see him. I went through radiation and have had some color change, hardness and shrinkage but this is all new. Anyone els had this problem?
    Former Member
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