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I think i ought to return to work. chemo is done and each day is surely a day when the chemo is less in my body?
but i am reluctant. i havent worked in the office since i did a couple of half weeks at the end of April, before my 2nd op. i have worked from home a bit since then - until the docetaxil put paid to that!
I was, no I am, an office and facilities manager and was damn good at my job too! but will i be now? Cancer and the ops and the treatment have caused me to re-evaluate whats important...
A bright autumn afternoon in Exmouth
I'm moulting, moulting! Ohhhhh, what a world, what a world.
- paraphrased from The Wizard of Oz
So, I was let out of isolation after four days, without mishap. However, on the second day - a bit under two weeks after the first chemotherapy session - I started noticing I was shedding both beard and hair, and within a few days they were so thin and patchy that I decided to cut to the chase and get rid of the beard, and a day later the hair. I cut it short...
Where do I start? He's mobile enough to help here and there a couple of times a day; but mostly just ambulatory enough to get in the way. Often times, he thinks he is helping but is doing something just a bit silly that needs undoing and then doing properly. He can't remember many things, nor say many things properly. I get frustrated because half the time I don't know what he's on about, or I am just trying to ignore what he's saying so I don't start getting wound up. He's...
I’m having a crazy time of it.
Since my diagnosis I have been pretty upbeat about things taking things in my stride.
The most used line so far is ‘Well its Hodgkins so they can do something about it!’
The problem is inside I’m thinking ‘What the hell is happening, I have no control over this and probably the one we all think Why me!’
As I have not started treatment yet I’m also worried about that and the affects it’s going to have on me, my family and my work...
My Dad's been in hospital for almost two weeks now. He's been going to the hospice day hospital once a week and they did a blood test, it found he had high calcium levels (?) which is apparently normal and treatable with lung cancer. Anyway, he had to go to A&E for treatment, which turned into him being admitted and staying in hospital for two weeks. He's had saline drips and his pain meds have been changed (not sure what to) and he's really gone downhill fast in these two weeks. I took my mum to...
Found I have breast cancer in June.Have had the op,chemo,am taking Femara for five years,with radiotherapy looming in November.Yet ,despite many complications along the way..it's not easy as everyone knows,the whole experience seems so surreal.Does anyone else feel like this?
Just found out my Mum has Breast Cancer. And on her lymph nodes (underarm). We are all devastated and we don't know what to do for her. She needs a Body scan to check if there is Cancer anywhere else. But it is going to take 3 weeks for the results, I don't know how I can keep strong for her. She has been complaining of a strange pain in her neck for a couple of months and my Mum is panicking it's cancer. Eventually she will need Surgery and chemotherapy and I don't want to think what's that gonna...
I am currently working on a play/reading about Jo Spence, the photographer who died of cancer and took photos of her illness. I am working with, who was her close associate on this project.
Out of this I had an idea of making a short film, independent of the project named above, about women, who are or have suffered with the illness, those who refuse to allow their illness to become who they are, and are tired of being only a cancer victim and nothing else.
I am aware of those who do...
Quite a lot of people are interested in my "Diary", but when my treatment took an abrupt halt with NO explanation - - - I had no explanation for anything
Well anyway - - 1 week later, to the day, I got an e-mail from my Specialist Nurse Mentor with a full explanation of what would happen now. She had been away on a course, bless her, and her e-mail covered the situation so fully, that I had no trouble accepting it.
The same day - the Doc that had just turned his back and walked out on...
