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Hi everyone
I havent been on here in a while and to be honest i dont really know why, i think ive just been burying my head in the sand and trying my best to get on with life. Things have been very difficult and its taken me a while to get used to living my life without my pop and to be honest i havent been coping like i should have been and the whole grieving process has been harder than what i thought but im getting through it and after all its only been 10 weeks tommorow.
My care is now focused...
Firstly, Sorry that im not good at spelling or Grammer!
I havent wrote anything for a while, but today I have thought about it all day?
I am a carer for my Mum (Jenny) who has Stage 4 NSC Lung Cancer and secondry brain, liver and spinal cancer. She was diagnosed in August 2009 and they gave her 3 months... Wow how wrong were they because 19 months on we are still fighting the bloody thing!!
Mum has been on high dose steroids for the last 19 months which have really taken there toll on her legs...
Well I do feel special! I was sitting watching morning TV when my phone rang.
It was my surgeon!
I blogged a few days ago that I have been waiting for an appointment to see him after 4 weeks from leaving hospital , this came and went and I have had no appointment.
To cut a long story short, he rang to ask if I had received an appt, I said no that I was waiting for todays post to come and if I didn't get one then I was going to ring his secretary. He said that I should have been to see him at...
Hi, I was just wondering if anyone has any tips for me. I finished Radiotherapy at the end of October . Now on herceptin and things seem to be going well apart from being extremely tired most of the time... I am ok if i don't go running around like i did before this all kicked off....
I know other people at the same stage of treatment who are back in work while i am sitting there thinking i couldn't do a 2 hour shift on my feet let alone the 9 hours I normally did...
Just interested...
Mum took a turn for the worse over the weekend, she can't even drink unassisted. Yesterday she was very agitated and broken blood spots started appearing all over her body. Blood test were taken and it was found her blood count is dangerously low because the cancer has attacked her bones the bone marrow is not making blood any more.
The Dr has advised us not to take her home as she is at risk of heamoraging which could be very distressing for my mum. The hospice is equiped to give her medication...
Hi all
This time next week we shall know if mums cancer has spread. She has had womb cancer, had all the treatment,surgery, chemo and Radio. Went for Oncologist appointment a couple of weeks ago and after examining her the doctor said he coud feel a lump between her neck and shoulder. So we have had a CT scan and the results are next Monday.
Mum is coping but i'm not, how selfish is that!!! I just cant bear it if it has come back so soon, she only finished chemo in January. Of course i will...
wella mixed week for me. after work on the wednesday i was exhausted all of thursday and a bit weepy - think i realised i wasn't superwoman and maybe 3 1/2 hours was a tad too much for the first time. friday was better - at docs and got different tabs for sickness - cyclizine which seems to be doing the trick. saturday was a different day all together. had a trip to edinburgh airport to pick up my pals son (i was just a passenger). started to get niggle in liver area - liked trapped wind again...
My husband is due to start a course of Interleukin 2 and I would really appreciate any advice that anyone could give me. Thanks very much.
