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Anyone had any similar experiences / advice / help on questions I should be asking doctors on behalf of family? Father has Grade 4 kidney cancer (has tumours on his one remaining kidney, on the kidney bed site of kidney removed 15 years ago, tumours on lung & one on brain. Sutent is controlling kidney and lung tumours but not controlling brain tumour. Blood clots found on lungs so having injections to thin blood. Had palliative brain radiotherapy two weeks ago (12mins/5 days). Now in hospital...
Hello! Oh dear... I just had a look and I have not written a blog for ages and ages and aaaages...
Hurrah! say you lot, we got time to catch our breath and rest our eyes...
Anyway, this one won't be long... haha I hear you say... heard that one before!
Oh ok, better send Bernard St Bernard out with the brandy just in case...
I am currently sat on a hotel bed in Torquay with my son :) I came down to get him to take him home tomorrow so we can go away on Sunday. The room is HUGE! Free wifi...
Today was a beautiful day.
Mumsy, Gordy, Alex (his daughter), Zainy (his grandson) and Dougy (our brother) went mooching around the lovely little villages just outside Scarborough.
Mumsy went on a memory trip in Snainton which is where here brothers and sister were evacuated to during the war. She wasn't evacuated as she was just a baby and families would not take babies. The we went to Thornton le Vale for lunch and had a little walk around visiting a garage/museum which renovates and auctions...
Well it has been 6 weeks (yesterday) since I had my ileostomy reversed and currently there is not much change.
Throughout the whole of this cancer experience I have NEVER felt as low or sad as I have at times during this 6 weeks. My poor husband has had to put up with floods of frustrated tears and I have felt really low. Luckily these sessions don't last long but when they are happening it is horrible.
As a rule I tend to get on top of things and chose to be positive and deal with things well...
HELLOO EVERYBODY
I'm not sure that it's nice to be back... coz that means my cancer is back too and like all of you lovely people i'm back for a second round of the fantastic support that we all give eachother as and when needed.
the docs are pretty sure my spot is a secondary tumour from my lung cancer (2 years ago) but cant do a biopsy because that would cause too much damage (apparently it's too deep in my head). So now i take steroids to keep the swelling down ( this seems to be...
Im not sure if i should be here because my husband has not been diagonised with cancer hell he hasn't been diagonised with any thing but he seems to be getting sicker and sicker. And it's been going on for so long now that i cant remember the last time he wasn't in pain i think it was 6 maybe 7 years ago now. he was about 25 when he first got sick so young that when we went to the doctors they didn't believe him.we have been to so many doctors over the years that just don't seem to care it's heart...
Gordy went to the hospital on Monday for this week's chemo tablets.
Later in the day his consultant's secretary rang Mams as they wanted him to go back and the message was not to take any of the drugs he had been given.
Gordy went back to the hospital on Tuesday morning. They took the drugs off him and told him that the chemo was doing more harm than good, his blood count had dropped dramatically in 5 days and the cancers in his liver were not responding and growing fast.
Gordy now has...
well Sunday Mum felt really poorly ,I got her back into hospital and after investigations the Tumour in her brain is back .. totally shocked that it has come back within the month. so suddenly the liver tumours take a back seat and its what to do about the brain tumour again . Mum has been told it is terminal and that any treatment will only manage the syptoms . She is deciding what to do ,, she keeps asking me what to do but its her choice not mine ,if it was mine it would be for her not to be in...
My dad has been back again today in the hope that his blood is up to his next treatment only to find out that it isn't. The drs have now decided to give him G-CSF in the form of pegylated filgrastim (Neulasta) and we are hopeful that this will bring his blood back up to where it should be so that he can continue his treatment.
I have just spoke to my dad and he was honest with me about how he is feeling about it all. He said whatever happens he is aware that this next 12 months could very much...
