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In my rather creatively titled ‘blog post one’ on cervical cancer I gave an explanation as to how stupid I have been. In said post I also mentioned that I was lucky. This may seem like an odd word for someone to describe herself as when she has just received a cancer diagnosis but I will elaborate on this in another post soon.
I also mentioned that I would expand on cervical cancer symptoms because in my case these and ‘luck’ go hand in hand.
But first….
Hehehehe....
We had a good few years but last year the cancer spread to his spine and he was in agony walking round with a broken back, he had two major ops putting rods and cage around his spine, they couldn't remove all the tumour and they "poked the beast" and in September we were told he would end in a wheelchair very soon, ok, we can deal with that and prepared for it. Over new year he ended up in Christies with pneumonia and pleurisy, then home, then back in with flu, then home but on the 8th Jan he fell...
Satyrday 1st April 2017
It's been a little while, only because nothing exciting has happened since last time. The side effects of the last chemo session have worn off except for the watery twitchy eyes, a few more lashes have disappeared, but on the plus side they are also growing back and the hair on my head is definitely getting a little thicker and ever so slightly longer.
I've had lovely days out with friends and dog walked a lot, had the neighbours around for a meal and friends...
I was diagnosed with Stage 3, grade 3 Follicular Non Hodgkins Lymphoma in April 2016. I was 49 at the time, a single mum of two teenage boys (which I still am, although now turned 50!). The eldest of my sons was about to sit his GCSE's which started three weeks after my diagnosis. When I was diagnosed it was a bomb shell, much like others. I was well aware of the disease as my mother had the same condition and had died of it 5 years after her initial diagnosis after 2 relapses some 13 years before...
Almost 2 1/2 years ago I was diagnosed with a sarcoma, abdominal cancer. I was told from the beginning it was incurable. I have tumors peppered throughout my abdomen. I am blessed (if there is such a thing) that none are in my vital organs.
I did surgery, tried chemo (made me very ill). Made my arrangements and purchased my headstone. A year ago friends told me of a juice called Xango that has been helping cancer patients, I tried it and although the tumors have not shrunk, they have...
Figured I should do a shout out to the mushroom that (probably) gave me cancer. Mushroom cloud that is!!
So, on the 26th of April, 1986 a nuclear reactor in The Ukraine was turned off to stress test the system. Well, it seems that the system was pretty damned stressed, and didn't take well at all to being turned off. It also didn't help, that it hadn't been set up properly in the first place, and a number of other dodgy bits and pieces all around the place. The reactor exploded, and then vented...
I was full of optimism after my 1st round of chemo.Almost no side effects and no hair loss.But I supposed to have my 2nd round next tuesday and I am feeling down again,now having constantly running nose and headache and pain when going to do a "big job".They checked my blood at A&E and said its ok.no infections.But my brain keeps working and thinking will it be worse?Do I want to suffer all the time?I even I am on Sick pay because I am to go to work so I dont catch infections.And keep thinking...
Mum and Nanny, sister and friend, lots of labels that can tell you much about a person.
I am 72 years of age , retired , spending time with my family ,my friends and my lovely little dogs.
Why then if all seems so good do I feel such anger at this time in my life.
Cancer entered my life in 1965 and I knew or understood very little about it .
I was newly married and was looking forward to the future, my Dad had been unwell and had been treated for various minor ailments but his health...
Since I last wrote my journey has been considerable. Starting with VCD chemotherapy in January through to June, which brought my paraproteins down from 26 to 8. Then came the big decision, do I go for a autologous stem cell transplant (SCT), that being described to me, by my consultant, as the gold standard.
So off to Addenbrookes, (60 miles from home) I spent a long time with another consultant as she went through the treatment, pros and cons, after which I signed up for the procedure, not...
it's been 7 hours and 15 days since I was wheeled into surgery for my lumpectomy and sentinel node biopsy and what a rollercoaster of pain and emotions I've been on since!
i know it's really common now and so many women have BC and surgery and biopsies, but I never imagined feeling like I'm just another article on a conveyor belt as much as I do right now. Did I miss the part about how much pain to expect, how my emotions would swing like a pendulum from good, to not so good to downright...
