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My husband is dying - how cold that sounds... soon I will be a widow and with a 92 year old mother who is not healthy, I may lose my husband and mother in a year..and there is the 'I' word because it is not just about how I feel, but also how my children feel. One of them is almost hysterical and has taken time off work to be with my husband and I, the other two are quieter but just as deeply affected about losing their father. The trouble is they cannot understand the very traumatic outpourings...
Seven weeks ago dad was admitted to hospital with what we thought was a stroke. By the Monday we were told he has lung cancer that had spread to his brain. The following Wednesday mam was admitted to hospital after we couldn't wake her after having 15 hours sleep. She was diagnosed with a chest infection and spent the next two weeks in hospital.
Think that week was the worst week of my life, not only did they ask us if we wanted mam resuscitated if anything happened but we also learned that...
I am struggling, I feel like driving off a bridge. I lost my dad 6 months ago after 3 months of cancer. Mum and dad had just celebrated 50 yearsmarried. They were always together and now my mum expects my sister and eye to fill the gap. She is devastated and struggling to the point where she hates being at home.
I work 3 days and of the 4 days off I spend 3 with her, it was the 4 days but I put my foot down as my kids and husband need me to, there was an awful row about it. Mum expects that I fill...
Well what a March - Ian medically evacuated from Tanzania with renal colic and stones, partially treated in the NHS and completed in the private sector, the upside, it confirmed that my reversal will be 'done' on April, also at the private hospital. What a damning reflection - I am sooo sorry for those people who endure the 'standard' NHS. My experience locally is when the chips are down the NHS is superb, hard to beat and worthy of plaudits all round, BUT even then I have seen from this site, really...
Hi All
I have been reading a lot about the benefits of fasting during chemotherapy. Particularly the studies being carried out by Dr. Valter Longo in America.
My Mum has had a tumour removed from her colon and is starting chemotherapy in 6 days time. She will be having 5FU plus oxaliplatin via a PICC every 14 days for 6 months (12 treatments). It will be administered over a 48hr period.
The information that I have gathered from several sources suggests 72hrs fast before chemotherapy and 24hrs...
I am beyond excited, so happy, I don't think I'm going to sleep a wink tonight.
Mum phoned this evening and for the first time in several weeks, she sounded like my lovely, happy, positive mum. Not sick mum, not tired mum, not slightly confused mum......just MUM!
Even better, she phoned to tell me that they are planning to discharge her tomorrow. I literally cannot believe it, I am so excited!
She has passed all the discharge tests, including walking up and down steps and making a cup...
I felt like crying earlier, after having another 7 stitches removed, which today’s nurse also couldn’t see till I showed her exactly where they were, I got home and found at least one more at the top of my vulva. The hospital clinic next available appointment is next week, another week’s healing, another week of my flesh melding with the suture. Getting that/those out is going to HURT. My GP’s surgery is closed this afternoon and their automated system doesn’t allow for making...
I’ve not been writing… I’ve been grumpy…. basically I’ve been awaiting a CAT scan and then the results of said scan, to find out ‘what next’. Its proper horrid when your life is up in the air and you’ve no idea how to plan for the months or weeks ahead.
One of the results of this inability to plan is I decided to invite a few friends round for a birthday tea… there… that’ll teach you pesky medics to take away my ability to plan…. I’ll plan...
