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  • ecrossen's blog
    Good News!?
    Good news? Bone scan and chest CT came back negative. No Matastisism. Still need the elusive referal to the City of Hope Cancer center. HMO dragging feet. Not looking forward to the "Whipple" procedure, but there is no other choice if I want to see my 65th birthday, maybe even Christmas and the new year.
    Former Member
  • nanamoy's blog
    Hello its me!
    I have never blogged before and am not very computer literate(hence no picture).Maybe the number 1 son will add one for me later...... I have checked out some other entries and everyone seems to have been through much more and be so much braver and more jolly than me.I am currently ok after breast cancer four and a half years ago.I suppose I just want to be in contact with people who understand the worry in the background that it will return and at the back of that is fear of death I suppose although...
    Former Member
  • annief's blog
    What is so great about chemotherapy?
    Yesterday I went with my Civil Partner so that she could talk with the Oncologist about possible ways forward. There was an underlying assumption that she would want chemotherapy and even that she would want to join a trial. She was very distressed by this rather aggressive attitude and finally decided to postpone a decision for another six weeks. She has been told that she has less than a year and six months of that could be spent in chemo. At the moment that looks like a really dud choice.....we...
    Former Member
  • KarenTx2's blog
    Pre Op Tests ARRGHHH
    Today seemed endless ... Left the house at 9 am , met my mum at 9.30, got the bus to the hospital .. arrived and eventually found the ward we needed ... by 11. 42 .. Yay three minutes early LOL!! Took her blood pressure , and swabs for MRSA ( weird !!) , asked her everything like what she had for tea a week last thursday .. well it seemed that way ....!! Poor mums' veins are really thin so had to go to a special department to get blood samples .. then off to the ECG department for a heart trace...
    Former Member
  • Princess Fiona's blog
    Pleasant distraction
    I had my second chemo today (FEC) and still not sure how really how I feel. Lost my hair over the weekend which came as a suprise - more suprised at how quick it happened and how addictive it was to pull out!! Hair loss started on Thursday and by Monday morning I had to shave off the little that was left. Now worried about losing my eyebrows - but hey due to power of the internet I have ordered false eyebrows ! Who'd have thought it ! I feel quite positive about the whole thing so far apart from...
    Former Member
  • cath3's blog
    my dad
    Hi im new to this site , we found out my dad had cancer 8 weeks ago. He as not had any treatment yet even though he as been in two different hospitals. We go tomorrow to discuss his treatment , don`t know much about it only what i have researched on the net. All doctors have told is so far is they can`t operate. they did want to put a stent in but couldn`t, My dad as not eaten very much for 16 weeks now occasionally he can manage a little soup, some days he can`t even keep water down. they have...
    Former Member
  • tonix2's blog
    lovely story
    My Name is Rose The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn't already know. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned around to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me with a smile that lit up her entire being. She said, 'Hi handsome. My name is Rose. I'm eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?' I laughed and enthusiastically responded; 'Of course you may!' and she gave...
    Former Member
  • Trishka's blog
    Day 8 Cycle 1
    We went back to the hospital yesterday for the next round of chemo - we got there too early again! Anyway, it was a bit of a non-event. Hubby had half an hour of saline flush then half an hour of chemo (Gemcetabine) followed by another flush - we had a cup of tea and piece of cake and it was all over. This time no medications to take afterwards - no nausea expected. Hubby spent the rest of the afternoon working (from home). He ate a pasta dinner, had a glass of wine and felt very well. This morning...
    Former Member
  • pompei's blog
    Yet more bad news.
    It just gets worse...... Nine weeks (to the day) after my husband's biopsy, having been diagnosed with Advanced, Invasive Bladder Cancer, we get the long awaited 'phone call. "Would you like to come to the hospital for a talk?", said the Urology Nurse. "Yes", I said, "That would be better than the telephone". She then said that she would give a brief summary now. I said that I would put her on 'speaker'. She then blurted out, in the nicest possible way, that my husband is inoperable and that all...
    Former Member
  • Raincoat's blog
    Hair Regrowth
    I wondered whether anyone has tried a product called N****n, marketed as a volumiser and regrowth agent/follicle booster suitable for chemo baldies? [I won't print its full name as I'm aware the site rightly takes a dim view of gratuitous advertising, but it's so hideously expensive that I'm sure anybody who has forked out will have its name burned on the bank balance-conscious part of their brains...] Nearly four months post-8 months of chemo, my hair is thin and patchy, and a brief comparative...
    Former Member
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