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Tick Tock, Tick Tock...
The countdown has begun. I had my scan today (despite going to the wrong hospital - chemo brain) to see how the cancer has responded to my chemotherapy course which I started back in June of this year.
It seems to have been forever but of course it hasn't been. Naturally I am very nervous. Very nervous indeed. This past week has been hard mentally for all of us. We all seem to have hit an emotional wall.
I have been longing for this last treatment to pass for a while now...
After my first appointment I told my children. I didn't want them to hear me discussing my diagnosis in hushed tones with other people and felt I owed them the truth at the earliest possible stage.
When my 13 year old came home from school I told her the news. I said I had been to the hospital and that i had breast cancer, that it was very small and treatable and that although it would be a tough six months, we would get through and I would be ok. She asked me if I would lose my hair and when...
so, the first week relatively flew by and 2 more chemo drugs on day8 followed by home injections for 9-13.
so the usual parking nightmare, sit for 10 mins queueing for the smallest car park but on time for chemo. Issue putting cannula into hand and so second attempt done on inner fore arm. To think I was blacking out at the sight of a needle a few years ago, this has helped me get over one fear. All smooth from there and out pretty much within 90 mins much more positive than before.
Day 9 last minute...
Hi everyone things have really been up and down for me lately. Heading to doctors on Monday as I've found a lump in my lower stomach but fingers crossed that it is nothing.
Will the time ever come when I stop thinking that every pain and every lump is the cancer spreading. The mind is an amazing thing but it is also a major pain in the ass. Even though things happen and you know it's fine the other part of the mind just won't let it be. It is times like this when I think I am going mad and...
That is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
That really is the question. Do we take what life deals us with lying down or do we roll up our sleeves when the going gets tough and throw a few punches? With the help of a Macmillan nurse (who should be beatified in my opinion), I delivered a literary boff to the hooter.
This week things all got a bit too much. The sense of hopelessness over my...
I was diagnosed with breast cancer on 18 June 2015. The previous week I was told they had seen an area of calcification on my mammogram which looked different to the previous one (my first). I'd had a biopsy of that there and then, which was a very unpleasant experience and I had not taken anyone with me for this appointment, expecting it all to be fine.
So, for the next appointment I took my husband, I also told my sister about it all, that I was going for the results and that it might mean...
hi,
so day 4-7 BEACOPP is done! Back to hospital in the morning for day 8 chemo. It has been surprisingly successful thus far, I am eating soo much getting a fourth meal everyday. always hungry.
i seem to be strong throughout the day with real desire to do stuff but then, some complete crashes where I fall asleep somewhat unexpectedly. Feel tired... But agitated.
some more interesting things from the weekend, what did we do that for in the rugby! It was the most ridiculous stumble to a loss I have...
Well that is it. I have not long since come home parked Bob up and crawled straight into bed.
Chemo isn't going to let me go easily. I felt instantly rough within minutes of the Cisplatin going in. That is a first. Good job it is also my last for a while.
I have done it. I have made it to the end of my first chemotherapy treatment plan. 12 sessions done. At times I have physically dragged myself at others breezed it but mostly dragged myself. For a period in the middle I didn't feel too bad but...
PET (Positron Emission Tomography) scans are mainly used to detect tumours and metastasis. The patient receives an injection and the scan produces 3D images, highlighting areas where the resultant glucose is prevalent – such as cancer in cells. It seems to be pretty accurate, but is very expensive.
Mine is due on 5 October, almost three months after my treatment ended. This timing is normal, as 10-12 weeks are needed in order for the swelling and inflammation caused by radiotherapy to die down...
