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As alot of my concerns have been about how I will look during chemo I decided to do something about it. Had semi permanent eyebrows done on Monday and tried some wigs yesterday, They were amazing and very natural looking, will decide on mine next Wednesday and will have it cut to suit my face shape. Also had Emotional Freedom Therapy which I found really helpful although I did cry, guess that is part of the process. Start my chemo at 11am tomorrow and now just want to get on with it, sooner I start...
i have now been signed off by my Oncologist after 5 years, very mixed emotions but so so happy
Thank you so much everyone that answered yesterday. I was having a wobble and you really touched me xx
After my hurried explanation I thought that I had better fill in some of the finer details.
So Dave has a Grade III Astrocytoma on the rear right hand side of the brain. It is/was roughly the size of the palm of your hand and was too deep to be operated on. He had a grading scan but it could not be used for diagnostic purposes so he had to have a biopsy to grade the tumour.
TBH it has all been a bit...
As if it wasn't bad enough losing Dad before Christmas and trying to come to terms with everthing a life with him no longer there entails, I get kicked in the guts again by my grandad's death less than 2 months afterwards - he had prostate cancer.
Fed up of illness, and funerals, I'm still young, I shouldn't be dealing with all this crap yet.
Only recently finished chemo and rads (still having herceptin), and got some further surgery but running the London marathon on 17th April.
Found out that I got a place to run for Macmillan at the end of last week and have managed to grind out my longest run of 6 (slow) miles so far (so only 20 to go!). Eek!!
8 miles planned for my 'long' run this week and feeling good. On a superficial level, really hoping my hair will be long enough by the marathon to feel comfortable running without a hat...
Well we reviewed my husbands scans yesterday after 2 year ritux maintenance therapy and the tumour in his abdomen had gone! but a new one around his right kidney had appeared!!! whats that all about?????? Nobody knows what to do about this and the Doctor is going to discuss these findings at a case meeting next week to pull other doctors brains. This is all a bit unnerving to me someone taking control would be nice.
hi everyone !!!!
well its 2 weeks into my first chemo my arm still hurts a bit and i think i might have a word with my onc see if i can get a port put in........... that was horrendous they did say the oxplatain would do that but it was so painful that i ended up in tears.....then the lobster sweats and the tiredness....now im the opposite i cant sleep !!
dr gave me some tabs but im not sleeping with them either and ive got this aggitation i cant get rid of think it might be the citabatine im taking...
No sooner have you recovered from one phase of treatment then you get started on the next. I've been back at work for a week and a day - all healed up from surgery although still a bit stiff from time to time - and now who knows what it will be like from tomorrow.
The planned chemo is for me to have two drugs: oxaliplatin and capecitibine, in 8x three-week cycles. The oxaliplatin is given intravenously over a couple of hours in the clinic (in Northampton), and the capecitibine is in tablet form...
