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Just returned from the docs for bloods. My WBC is now 6.3 so now classed in the normal range, the doc agreed this is a good start and now it's the task of getting the nasty CLL cells out of the bone marrow.
It was a good visit overall and I had a good chat with the doc about the future and the possibilities dependant on the outcome of this round of chemo and when it comes then next round. I have to say although I am a very positive person the discussion did give me more...
I've gone back to work full time 37.5 hours a week and i can barely keep my eyes open when i get home. I even go to the gym and my stamina just wont improve at all. My doctor tells me it will be like this until i finish all my treatment but i want to have my stamina back now not in a year. I enjoy my life at the moment. Work is great and would be incredible if i wasn't so tired. I go to the gym when i feel like i have some energy, force myself if i have to, i play roller derby twice a week and nothing...
Weird isn't it how you can be so ill and still life goes on I am waiting for my new fridge and freezer to be delivered, normally I would be given the late slot and would be upset that I had to wait around, now that I have a stinking cold and my partner is in bed with the flu I have been given the 7 to 11 slot so I had to get up dead early this morning. I know they will probably come nearer 11 than 7 but can't take the risk, partner is absolutely laid up or she would be doing it and I had...
Well as the previous post said until Thursday evening I felt fine, a bit weak but generally ok.
Throughout the Thursday night I woke up a few times feeling nauseous but managed not to actually be sick, until the morning. At 6:30 I couldn't hold it anymore and was quite sick. I took the anti sickness pill and actually felt a bit worse, at 11:00 I took the daily medication I have bed given with a glass of water and it was like a comedy sketch from little Britain the sickness...
It is actually strange how this all started, because at first it had nothing to do with cancer at all, well so we thought. Just before xmas 2012, my gran had a stumble down a flight of stairs, bumping her head,face and pride. After hours of speaking to her i eventually managed to get her to go to the doctors to be checked over. At the doctors after investigation the doctor decided to send her home to rest and make an apt with the optician as he thought she was showing signs of having a cataracts...
It's been a while since I started with all best intentions.....so here I am back again to share with you where I am now.........
The last month has been awful. Delays in hospital treatment have meant that they had to forcibly insert a stent and now I can't eat normally and it's hard to find the positive things to focus on. I was in hospital for a week as I just couldn't stop being sick and when I was home the drugs were all getting too much. I got my daughter to look at the side effects of the...
Husband is hungry tonight. Had his brekkie and lunch. Tea tonight (fish, oven chips, peas (lazy I know but had been at work too)) then fresh fruit with custard, capec and now mars bar. Says he feels stuffed but still hungry. I say go eat. While you can.
Not sure how or why this has happened, maybe because the sun came out today?????
Or he had his hair cut for first time in ages ?????
Or he stopped taking the wellman vitamin couple of days ago (contains folic acid - bad for the tingle feet /hand...
Right apart from a stinking cold I am back to my old self again, feeling a bit more positive, thanks for all who have made me feel better with their advice. So I start radiotherapy next thursday and in theory I should be still on a treatment break but feeling quite rough with this cold which isn't like me, but then I'm not me anymore I am the new cancer me.
Well I will still try to shake this off and go out for a couple of meals or something and then the daily grind of travelling from Southend...
The hardest part for me is the speed with which life was turned up side down once the true diagnosis was reached. The brutality with which DFSP smashed into my life and wrenched out of my hands so much of my life,(maybe for a period of time) its mind blowing.Its hard to express this to loved ones because they are all willing you better, hoping its all going to be alright, and its not that I am not a fighter but there are times when I just want to scream 'this is awful!' .I have never been in hospital...
