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Hi All,
Today I need some sort of a release and writing on here is proving to be something that really helps me get through the days...
To give you a bit of background I am 28, my husband is 26. We have been together for just over 3 years and 2 of these years we have spent living with 'my cancer'.
My husband and I got married in September 2015 - About 6 weeks before the wedding I was given my second cancer diagnosis, this was the metastatic spread into the chest lymphnodes. I hadn't yet...
Well. D-Day is almost here.
Tomorrow I get the results from my scan from two weeks ago.
I have been getting increasingly stressed.
Over the past three weeks my bowels have been really uncomfortable, sore and generally misbehaving. My stomach hasn't been great either. Feeling nauseous and getting niggling pains here and there.
My irrational mind tells me the Bastard has spread. It is in my stomach and bowel and I will be told there is little they can do.
My rational mind tells me that it has only...
Hi I am looking for some help and advice. I was diagnosed with a 'type'of inflamatory arthritis over 2 months ago and been in morphine since for pain, and now on a chemo drug to they and get the pain under control. I also have had a red spot on my hip for about 2 years which I decided to have removed. It has been confirmed as Basal Cell and my Doctor has referred me to a specialist as he says a lot more has to be removed. My concern is that because I have had this spot so long.. Is the 'inflamatory...
Hi on the 28th Jan 2016 my mum was admitted to hospital cause she was in so much pain just above her left hip at bottom of her back she is 71 doesn't look it loves gardening walking doesn't smoke went in got x rays scan just found out got type 4 lung cancer she just asked the other day how long gave 3 month she has been on drips and antibiotics had chest infection
also cause had to have fluid took from her lung on painrelef and got air too take wasn't eating put on steroids now eating...
My ex husband has just died of a brain tumour. The divorce was only finalised 3-4 months ago. The cancer was almost certainly there in the run up to the divorce and his behaviour certainly added to the events leading to the divorce.
I was a away when he collapsed and was rushed into hospital with the brain tumour. His family didn't let me visit or communicate with him in any way and I have been told that I don't/didn't need any information about his illness as I am not family-but an exwife. ...
I knew what was happening, but I also knew the news just wasn't going in.
Since being off work since 5th Jan and diagnosed on 20th Jan I thought I'd pay a visit to the girls I work with, I love their company and was missing them, I think that might have the triggered off the emotions I feel now.
I woke up a 5am, and all I can think about is I don't want to go, I want to stay and get old! My eyes are sore and I'm, frankly, getting bored of crying ... I've got to compose myself before...
My mother died 4 years ago from thyroid cancer, followed by grandmother who died last year from pancreas cancer. The devastation I feel is not only from my own feeling of loss and emptiness, but I feel even worse for my father and my siblings. I feel like I can't talk to anyone about my feelings because I don't want to worry them. Unfortunately I have had instances where I feel so heavily depressed that I have cried in front of them, and that makes me feel so guilty. So guilty that I have to burden...
After we'd discussed the options open to us we waited for the next appointment letter but instead we received Lumpy's eviction notice aka surgery day. It was scheduled for 06/10/15 at 12.00 noon. So only had five weeks to wait. In the meantime, Lumpy went into overdrive. He bled without any interference, the pain was just getting unbearable and the itching drove me potty. Life was quite difficult at work and i had to keep going to the locker rooms to clean up. I was starting to lose my temper...
"I think you should sit down"
It took me a moment to process what she had just said. I was shaking and my breathing had accelerated before she even began to explain.
It was 2nd February 2011. It had been a day like any other, nothing to write home about. I was still living at home so I'm not sure who I'd be writing to anyway to be honest, but I digress... I'd been round to a friends after work that evening. It was a Wednesday and to this day I've questioned my memories of the date, was...
My Mum and Dad are fit, healthy, walk 8-10 miles a day, and have a fabulous life in Spain. They don't live there full time, they take long holidays as they are both retired.
At the end of September, my dad bent over and felt something "ping" in his thigh. he thought it was his hamstring.
By the end of October he was clearly in pain.
By the beginning of December he was in a great amount of pain, so he attended a Spanish hospital and after, MRI, PET scan he was told he had a very aggressive...
