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  • sorted67's blog
    retail therapy...
    Friday 28th August Well,friend came and we ate in on Thursday - they had the most delicious looking steaks and I didn't, haha. I've gone mostly vegetarian through natural inclination not 'choice'. Funny how we're drawn to different things - I've had a fish in batter phase, a noodle and cashew nut phase, a pasta and tomato phase, a strawberry phase... and at the time, they've all made some kind of sense. At the moment I'm on a fruit phase so, by my reckoning, I get every nutrient I need over the course...
    Former Member
  • sarah61's blog
    Not a good day
    Im not having a very good day today. We went to order the flowers for Dad's funeral and one of the flowers I wanted one that Dad liked, Bella donna lillies, the florist had never heard of. How pathetic is that, although she did say she would speak to her boss. Took Mum to see Dad in the chapel of rest on Thursday. He looked peaceful but not entirely the Dad I knew and loved. I still cant believe he's gone really I keep expecting to see him walk by. I look at photos and see a different Dad to the...
    Former Member
  • lennard's blog
    Where did What Now go
    Hi What Nowers, what happend on friday evening. I could not get on here till nearly 2oclock this morning, thought i had been kicked out for some reason.Did the site crash, didn,t know what to do with myself not being able to read the blogs. So glad your all back. Redards Toffeeapple. xxx
    Former Member
  • carolannt's blog
    my mum
    just got back from mums funeral .it was a lovely service , i'm so glad it went so well . marc my son and i sat at the back of the church in our wheelchairs ,every time a tear escaped we held each others hand. we coped so well .now it's hit me how tired and exhausted i am. it has been a hard 6mths since dx , and this last two weeks has passed in a blur ? or fog ?. don't know how i have got through it .now i'm going to rest today , recharge my batteries . tomorrows a new day , and the start of a new...
    Former Member
  • carolannt's blog
    my mum
    just got back from mums funeral .it was a lovely service , i'm so glad it went so well . marc my son and i sat at the back of the church in our wheelchairs ,every time a tear escaped we held each others hand. we coped so well .now it's hit me how tired and exhausted i am. it has been a hard 6mths since dx , and this last two weeks has passed in a blur ? or fog ?. don't know how i have got through it .now i'm going to rest today , recharge my batteries . tomorrows a new day , and the start of a new...
    Former Member
  • sallycowan's blog
    New to this.....
    Hey everyone I am new to this. My dear mother-in-law has recently been diagnosed with bronchial alveolar carcinoma. She starts Chemo today. We have so far been given no real answers to the big question we all have - how long has she got and how sick is she gonna get with Chemo???? She seems so well (apart from a cough) so it is hard to get my head around it. I lost my own mum 3yrs ago to cancer of the endometrium and she was well too but had passed away within three months of diagnosis. My...
    Former Member
  • DebbiesDaughterxxx's blog
    It's starting to hit me!
    Hi all, I'm still in a weird mood lately, I think with Mum's op and everything coming it's definatly starting to hit me....I cant really deny the fact anymore that Mum's got Cancer. I am blubbing nearly everyday (And that's not like me!) I want to kill everyone i see or talk to, I dont want to get out of bed and i have the sudden urge to get very heavily drunk all the time. So with me feeling like this...God Mum must be feeling bad!! I just had this sudden urge to clean the kitchen so i did (But...
    Former Member
  • DAFFIE's blog
    Jokes and all
    I have just caught up with today's blogs. From the heated comments, is seems more than a few feathers have been ruffled. It is encouraging to see that so much good sense has prevailed and if anything positive can result from the sorry mess, it is that we all need to be sensitive to others' feelings when posting on the site. I first posted almost a year ago, in the depths of despair when my husband was given a terminal diagnosis. I have come to realise that we all have different needs at different...
    Former Member
  • purdeybru's blog
    MRI results back.
    MRI results back today at last. Tumour is bigger than at first thought, is 3.5cm with ill defined edges and appears to have grown (knew it!) since the last time I saw him 2 weeks ago. To me that doesn't sound good! Said my options were, chemo first to try and shrink it then have excision, or mastectomy (which he recommended, as high grade and invasive) Also said they could reconstruct there and then, or later. Advised against instant reconstruction as if have radiotherapy could cause problems to...
    Former Member
  • sorted67's blog
    a leetle update
    Afternoon all, Well the Consultant rang back this afternoon. I will be hearing from hospital with an appointment for next week for the fitting of the hickman line. Surprise was that they're keeping me in and starting the IVE chemo the following day. This involves 3/4 days being hooked up. If everything goes well, they'll let me out for 2/3 days then back in for observation when my bloods drop. There'll be a CT scan after the first cycle to check it's having the desired effect. After the 2nd cycle...
    Former Member
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