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“Gosh, you know, I would just LOVE to stay completely motionless for twenty to thirty minutes whilst being held inside a long, noisy tube as it scans for me the spread of the cancer I have just been diagnosed with. Even better if I get to do it twice in one week!”
Said absolutely no one in the history of humankind, EVER.
Welcome to Diagnostic Imaging week!
Four days after my diagnosis I received a call from my Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) to explain that I would be booked in for the...
This week’s blog post is not going to have the lengthy title as promised two weeks ago but instead I’m going to simply call it ‘What Immediately Follows After Diagnosis.’ Although that is a pretty darn extensive topic I’ve broken it down into two (summarised) components: –
This may not have a lengthy title but it is a wordy...
Interrupting my regular scheduled blog post with a… well, a regular scheduled blog post. The next post I do will be entitled ‘How to Tell Friends and Family that You Have Cancer Whilst Making It Sound Like You Have Nothing More than a Common Cold so that You Keep Their Spirits Up While Somehow Simultaneously Convincing Yourself that You Have Cured Your Cancer via the Power of Positive Thinking Because the Brain Gets Weird When it’s in Denial.’
This week’s post is more simply...
"I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my bike
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride it where I like"
But I can't.
1 - It's upstairs in the attic bedroom.
2 - It's broken and needs a good seeing too.
3 - Oh yeh, I have cancer in my bones and hlding myself upright for too long gives me lots of pain.
Darn it!
It has been SUCH nice weather these past few days, and all I wanted to do was get out in it. A friend invited me over to sit...
Hello dear readers,
I guess it's time I updated you. We've been busy but not in a good way. I stayed in the hospice for 6 weeks in the end. Warning: It's a long one......
Whilst I was there I was eating my breakfast one morning when I suddenly felt very wet. I am incontinent so I thought I'd just check all was ok. I was very much not ok, the wetness was blood and lots of it. I just panicked. It was pouring out, I pulled the emergency cord and then thoughts of dying rushed through...
This whole experience is still not completely real to me but really think my thoughts now will be helpful to me at some point down the line, this had come from nowhere! I have had sciatica pain for a few weeks and whilst out for my birthday with my partner and sons 14 and 8 trying on wedding shoes - we are supposed to be getting married at the end of July! I noticed my foot had no feeling the boys dragged me on to lunch and later whilst peeing I noticed I didn't know I had stopped as the toilets...
It's very nearly six months since I started on Rucaparib. In that time, the drug has been licensed for use in the US and now has a trade name, Rubraca. There's gradually more information around and it seems like my experience of three to four months of hideous fatigue, mild nausea and a disgusting taste in my mouth is pretty normal.
I'm now at the stage that I can tell women coming along behind me to stick with it - the fatigue will pass. What a difference six months makes.
That's because...
I’m going to kick start this portion with a picture of me in a tree.
This was taken Christmas Day at Waverley Abbey. Past Gerry doesn’t know it yet but she is soon going to miss sitting comfortably. You enjoy that perch Past Gerry. Revel in the Christmassy moment.
Three days after the picture was taken (and luckily because I can count I make that the 28th December) another letter landed on my doormat. Future Gerry will get used to these. It had on it a medical stamp (Future Gerry will...
Hi my name is Pete and I have had my prostate removed and now I'm in the middle of 6 weeks intense radiotherapy. I am 55 years old and very alone with all of this. My kids are at an age where even though they support me they are barely around. I live on my own and have recently lost my best friends support . Her mum died of cancer back in August and she is finding all this too much and has backed away after promising to stand by me. So i feel like I have lost the closest person whom i used to be...
It’s been a while since I last posted in my blog so apologies if you were reading these posts and were wanting more! Just over three weeks ago, I was getting ready to go in to have The Big Op and was singing ‘bye bye Miss American Pie’ except in this case Miss American Pie was my cervix.
Well I can say that I am now sans-cervix. Well done me and the entire surgical team. Well mainly ‘well done surgical team’ as they did all the work whilst I just lay there. I’ll update...
