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  • craigl's blog
    How to get Tarceva treatment
    My father has been diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer with bone involvement. It's been 8 wks form diagnosis and to date he has had one targeted radiotherapy treatment to reduce bone pain. He has been almost bed bound for 3 wks after the radio with fatigue etc. I spoke with the oncologist after researching Tarceva. He told me he would not prescribe Tarceva as its only used in 2/3nd line treatment. NICE say you have to have chemo first. My worry is that my father is too ill to tolerate traditional...
    Former Member
  • yorkiechick's blog
    Help Needed
    Hi Everybody This my first Blog is there anybody that can give any advise or pearls of wisdom to help me as my husband Tom has just been diagnosed with a brain tumour called Glioblastoma multiforme grade 4.and will have radio and chemotherapy for 6 weeks. Our daughter is getting married on september the 5th 09.will he be well enough to be there after treatment? he looks so well at the moment you would not know anything was wrong with him he has started decorating the front of the house for the...
    Former Member
  • nanaboo's blog
    Home Again
    Alan and i have had a good 3 days away . He coped ok with the driving took regular breaks and a short kip when needed. It was good to get to see my mum and she was so pleased to see Alan.My brother picked us from the Red Jet and drove us to where ever was needed, had a meal with him and his wife before taking us back to Cowes to get the boat back to Southampton. Tomorrow its back to the hospital for his next dose of chemo. And into the old routine again. See u in the chat room soon. Better go...
    Former Member
  • tonix2's blog
    hoax
    dear all sorry about my blog i really did not revised it was a bad one i believed it. i will make sure it will not happen again, ( but me be me i believe in any thing) i feel really upset about it love Toni x
    Former Member
  • BrambleDigger's blog
    Tis the night before Opening, and all through the house.............
    Hi Folks, It’s me again! Well no, that’s not quite right, is it? It’s always been me – never been anyone else. So, I suppose, it cannot be me again, can it? At the third stroke, the time from BT will be………….. So – here I am, sitting in front of this wretched machine – we’ve all got one and love or hate them to a greater or lesser extent – but still we use them and still we moan about them. Especially the updates – Oh dear me, especially the updates. Have you tried to install the latest one from...
    Former Member
  • pompei's blog
    Long time for bad news
    Hi everybody, I have been following all of your posts while awaiting the outcome of my husband's biopsy. Today, after waiting over 5 weeks, we finally heard the worst. After the first diagnosis in Spain in March when the Cancer was in the bladder only, today we were told that it had spread through the muscle to prostate and lymph nodes. We now have to wait a further 2 weeks to find what the Medical Team in Liverpool, our nearest Cancer Hospital, can do. Our local consultant said that there are only...
    Former Member
  • beanpole's blog
    visit to Oncologist
    went to see oncologist yesterday Clives swallowing is bad again. Soup only and yoghurt drinks, also a few aches and pains on breastbone/ shoulder blade. He had a barium swallow to see how things were flowing when swallowing, there is a narrowing but oncologist wants to still go ahead with Third taxotere round then scan and get straight on to radiotherapy for 2 weeks, which he says should help the swallowing. So we'll keep on pureeing for the next few weeks, great! He finds it quite depressing not...
    Former Member
  • Davis3595's blog
    Alex
    Pulmonary Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma - EHE My name is Alex and I have just been diagnosed with EHE. The local hospital is unable to help me, indeed most of them had never heard of the condition, and I have been referred to Christies Hospital in Manchester. I have looked at several websites and to be honest most of them are written in medical jargon and very low on how EHE is caught, treated or of survival rates. I would be delighted if anyone with EHE, or know of family / friends suffering...
    Former Member
  • tonix2's blog
    jokes
    y We Love Children 1. A nursery school pupil told his teacher he'd found a cat, but it was dead. 'How do you know that the cat was dead?' she asked her pupil. 'Because I pissed in its ear and it didn't move,' answered the child innocently. 'You did WHAT?' the teacher exclaimed in surprise. 'You know,' explained the boy, 'I leaned over and went 'Pssst' and it didn't move' 2. A small boy is sent to bed by his father. Five minutes later.....'Da-ad.....' 'What?' 'I'm thirsty. Can you bring a drink...
    Former Member
  • tonix2's blog
    a little rude joke
    Two builders (Dave and Stuart) are seated either side of a table in a pub when a well-dressed man enters, orders a beer and sits on a stool at the bar. The two builders start to speculate about the occupation of the suit Dave: - I reckon he's an accountant. Stuart: - No way - he's a stockbroker. Dave: - He ain't no stockbroker! A stockbroker wouldn't come in here! The argument repeats itself for some time until the volume of beer gets the better...
    Former Member
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