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The steroids have definitely helped with my appetite, and the more I've been trying to eat the better the swallow reflex has become.
My preferred meal at the moment is pasta soup and bread (all in the same bowl) with cheese on the top. I think I do need to try and include a few more vegetables, but I am definitely eating a lot more.
The side that received the main RT still has a bit of soreness, and a few new ulcers keep appears, then fading.There is still a sore spot in my throat too.
I just...
I had a busy and emotional couple of days this week. I find it very therapeutic to be able to record in this blog what has happened and my reactions to it. I really don't mind if very few people read it, but if they do, and respond with comments, so much the better. I did post a shorter version of this entry over in the incurables group, but I need to stretch my wings a bit more here!
I had an appointment in the radiotherapy department at the Christie on Wednesday. I should have taken hubby...
Many people love to plan ahead and make those three, five, ten year plans, they know where they want to be and by when but cancer can put a HUGE stop to that.
I count myself lucky, when my now husband was first diagnosed I was 20 years old, I'd only just really discovered how to work my washing machine and was enjoying the first bit of freedom from the family home so I hadn't got round to making huge future plans that I suddenly had to rethink.
Of course we had dreams and hopes but we never...
Im going use this blog as a major whinge in what i so far been stripped of by cancer.over the last two and half years.
.in the summer of 2012 life was ticking along, not brilliant could do better but getting there.and anywY it was the summer of the olympics and not only did i have tickets, but managed to get my mum tickets, so major brownie points to me
june 2012 diagnosed with some sort of cancer an 18 inch tumour in my abdomen and meta stastsis in chest and lung, oops!,,
two half years later...
I think it's 4 weeks tomorrow that I finished my 6 week course of RT for salivary gland cancer. This week it feels like things are picking up. Firstly I have started to eat real food. When I say real, I'm not sure it would be to everyone's tastes, but I'm moving beyond ensures, and pureed meals.
I have some fork mash able meals from Wiltshire farm foods that I've been eating. I've also had soup with bread rolls ( which is soak for a while in the soup). Yesterday I had a very cheap...
Well that wasn't fun, i for some reason though the lung surgery to remove a few nodules would leave me in the same amount of pain as last years surgery to remove my chest lymph nodes
well it got the same name, same scars, so why not the same pain,
wrong, it bloody hurt when i came round, and nearly two weeks late still hurts
