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With all the channels of communication open to me I still feel unable to talk to someone directly. Words are easier to write and delete whereas talking leaves me unable to hold everything in and I'm sure people are bored of the wobbly lip and pretend dust in my eye. My partner's mother has, in the last nine months, been diagnosed with pancreatic, lung, liver and stomach cancer with cells recently discovered in her lymph nodes. After two rounds of aggressive chemo back in March we thought we were...
Well, that waiting for results game that sends us a bit bonkers is over… and the results are in:
Little My 2 Cancer 1 I am winning now and that feels good hahaaaa.
GC first thing this morning... drove there in the howling wind and rain and got there early. Got coffee and sat down, played guess the patient cos on bum day its hard to tell sometimes. There was an elderly couple and a woman with a stick opposite me. A lady’s name is called and they all stand up. I reckon it’s the woman with...
Feel like my life has been on hold since my husband's diagnosis in November. I lost him in April and now my dad is about to start chemo for oesophagus cancer and then have a huge operation with a long recovery.
Thank God for this website, somewhere to offload!
Well after going for 3 monthly check up on July 13th 2011 they informed me that a lymph node was enlarged in my right groin..... They tried to take a biospy there and then by hand but didnt manage to get a good sample so the booked me in for a ultra sound so that they could get an exact sample this would be done on the friday after 24 hours the bruising appeared from my groin down to the knee black and blue - when i went on the friday for the ultra sound the doctor said to me do you bruise easy my...
Pat is still stable but needs an intensive amount of nursing and medical care. They will be coming to the ward in just over a week to give the next Ocreotide injection for the Neuro Endocrine Tumour.
Thoughts are beginning to turn to long term care and I have broached this with him today. Having said this, his heart is failing and it is not longer possible to consider a pacermaker, so anything could happen. One day at a time.
He is comfortable and being visited daily by either myself or my son...
My lovely sister Mandy lost her brave battle with cancer 24th May almost one year to the day when she discovered it had come back.
The Hospice people were all marvellous and looked after us all during her last almost 3 weeks
my niece (her daughter) even sat exams the Monday and Tuesday the week she died and her caring tutors were kind enough to mark them and give her fantastic pass results within 24 hours so she could tell her mum.
After a really bad night on the Wednesday when we thought she...
I keep being told that cancer is a rollercoaster but I have decided that it is more like a complete theme park -'BIGC' it's sort of exclusive in that you don't apply for tickets you are specially selected and you receive your ticket ,then you can join the queue for the first ride and this is a ride to can keep coming back to -'the Wating Game ' this is like a ghost train cos for most of it you are completely in the dark and scary things leap out at you , then you have a choice of rides or attactions...
Visited mum today, took the kids who all made her feel loved with lots of hugs and hastily drawn pictures - flowers from my daughter and 'The sun with legs that walk' (?) given to her by my four year old. She loves seeing them all, even my 13 year old was less 'uggish' than his usual self.
We didn't stay long, she gets tired and also gets a bit circular with her conversation, about an hour and a half maximum for her at the moment. She hates anyone knowing she has Alzheimer's and...
She is, in her own words the other day when I was trying to convince her to have a recliner to help her increasingly swollen legs - 'Cussed awkward'.
'I know I'm being cussed awkward, but I'm not having one of those chairs, they're for old people'.
She's 77.
Trying to deal with my mum and pinpoint problems is like trying to figure out how to 'remove' puzzle pieces so you can pick apart one picture from the other. She has dementia, depression, high blood pressure...
