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Well, spent ages trying to work out how to actually write a message on here.
Since I signed up to the online community I spent 3 days in hospital with neutropaenic sepsis following my first chemo treatment (Taxatere), so now am apprehensive about second treatment on Friday. I was diagnosed with secondary breast cancer in June 2010, almost 10 years since the first time. One largeish tumour in a lymph node on my neck was zapped with radiotherapy, other smaller ones in lymph nodes and bones treated...
Firstly - thank you to all of you for your kind words and support on my last post - did make me shed a tear but in a good way.
Well its just over a week since Mum died and things are just ticking on....nothing seems real and i'm bored of all the paper work. Mums funeral isn't until the beginning of March due to a back log at the local crem so got to wait until i can finally say goodbye. I'm planning on going back to work after half term, get myself back into my normal routine as if i avoid it...
The latest news on Alan he has got his appt at QE at last CT scan on Tues plus the dates of his Radio therapy (fingers crossed). Then 2-3 weeks of treatment unless it chages who knows i dont.
He is already tierd and i hear treatment can also cause tierdness ..happy to hear how any others found it affected them .
So i think we shall know the train journey very well in a couple of weeks .
Nanaboo
Well, I went to the oncologist on Thursday to check all was ok for treatment on Monday. My count had gone down a lot, so he was well pleased. After discussions about my breathlessness, and the way I was feeling he seemed a bit more concerened, and when I told him my GP had suggested a chest x-ray he told me to have it done. My CT scan request from last month seemed to have got lost in the ether (I know it had been requested for after this treatment, but the scan department say they have nothing requested...
Hi Hugh Gavin here,
I never knew this site existed I found it ay accident.
A brief history, I was getting an ultra sound for gall stones Nov 2009 They found a mass in my kildney I was sent for a CT Scan early Dec2009 on 7th Dec at 10.15am I was told I had a 95% chance that the mass was cancer! Boy that word you think they were talkng about someone else.My wife was sitting in the waiting room and when I went out I could not tell her as I knew she would be really up set.We walked to the car and just...
My hair had been coming out for a week was really getting me down as longish and very dark so there seems to be hair everywhere, even in the dishwasher! Decided this morning to get my lovely hubby to cut it much shorter and start wearing my wig, I dreaded it and we were both really nervous but thank goodness I did I feel so much better and back in control! Has to be a bonus at the moment, can't control much else x
I know about chemo head and had some of that but i have a few others and doctors cannot tell me why maybe someone out there can enlighten me.
1. My normal body temp is at a higher temp since treatment. My wife says that sometimes she can feel the heat coming off me.
2. On the instep of both feet i have a patch about the size of a postage stamp. When touched by anything feels like an open wound.
3. From the hips down i suffer from what i can only call prickly heat.
4. I have had large pressure...
Hi, I am new here. My dad was diagnosed with Klatskin tumour in June of 2009. He is receiving PhotoDynamic Therapy and is getting stents replaced every 6 weeks or so. He is living in America, and I am living in Ireland, so this has been a difficult time. The doctor's prognosis is that he "will not be here this time next year", and from what I have read re: Klatskin tumours, he is fortunate to still be here at this point. He is hoping to start chemotherapy treatments within the next week--which we...
