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  • 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
  • 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
  • yorkiechick's blog
    First Appointment
    My husband Tom had his 1st appointment with the oncologist at The Queens romford yesterday.I had got myself into a right stew about what they would say to us. When we got there we had aright good laugh with the receptionist when she kept saying toTom" white british are you white british" when he is clearly mixed race, she thought he had been sitting in the sun that was brilliant!! the hospital is new and spotlessly clean and I did'nt have time to put me bum on the waiting room seat before we were...
    Former Member
  • lal's blog
    Living abroad and supporting my mother
    My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer last October. Following a lumpectomy they discovered secondaries in her liver. I live abroad and have been visiting her as much as I can. She lives alone and has been managing things as best she can. She gets good support from the hospital, but it is hard knowing how much she has to deal with on her own. My children are small and it would be difficult to leave them for longer that a couple of days but I somehow cannot bear the thought that I cannot do more...
    Former Member
  • Noj's blog
    Any port in a storm...??? No ! We can use mine!!!!!
    It has now been 9 days since treatment 2. This first week turned out to be similar to the first week after the first treatment – but a little less severe. This is probably because I was ready for the various symptoms / aches and pains etc and so took whatever preventative action that I could e.g. drinking more fluids and keeping on top of eating little and often seemed to help reduce the woozy light headed feeling and taking painkillers seemed to keep the headache and aches and pains in check....
    Former Member
  • tantan's blog
    Yeah. All clear
    Thank God today is over. No cancer found Yeah. He has to go back to see the surgeon in 4 weeks time to see what the plan is with the adhesions. He said he would try and stretch his gullet while he was down there but couldn't manage it cos it was so narrowed, so over to plan B whatever that is. Also I asked him about the swelling too as this morning it was so bad it was closing his eye. Anyway it is just lymphoedema, (I say 'just' but you know what I mean). We can breathe again. To top it off as well...
    Former Member
  • kezza33's blog
    Amazing News Everybody!!!
    hi all well as you know already mum has to have 6 months of abvd for hodgkins lymphoma stage 2b with a large chest tumour tomorrow she has her 6th session which is her now half way through she went for her usual check up and blood tests etc today, and got the results of her recent PET scan- great news! the chemo is working and the doctors said with a big smile that they were "very pleased" with mums scan results. so she is now fingers crossed on the road to recovery!!!! it makes such a difference...
    Former Member
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