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My MIL has just started her chemo (yesterday). She was very upbeat and was, pleasantly suprised at how much better it was than she had feared and initillly thought. She returned home after 2 hours drip feed treatment with steroids and was very positive. Today, she has woken in a very different place. She has been unable to stop crying. She says that she does not feel unwell or seem to be suffering any side effects from yesterdays ordeal. It is obviously distressing to hear her so upset and I...
Well its been a few weeks now .. and I still find it very difficult without my mum, I miss her every day.I have my husband and children to keep me busy but still the grief catches me off guard, It will be the first hurdle soon with mums birthday coming up ..not sure what to do on that day ,,
Sorry for the lack of contact since February, things have been manic all round with kids, college and family events....finally i can update you on everything!
Dad is now off his chemo and is on fortnightly doses of Cetuximab which has done more than just keep the cancer from spreading, it, along with the chemo, has shrunk the cancer right down to minimal size and the doctors and specialists are happy to just be ongoing now with the Cetuximab and 3 monthly scans. Dad is massively upbeat and seems...
Don't know who wrote this & you've probably read it elsewhere, but it seemed singularly appropriate.
" There are things we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn and people we can't live without but have to let go."
Ouch - as if we didn't know!!
LJen X
I’m home again after 4 of the very worst days of my life. Up until now I’ve been able to hold things all together and stay firmly positive and upbeat, but over the past for days in hospital I completely fell apart emotionally. My friends and family are all cheering me from the rafters, convinced I’m brave and courageous. Well the past few days has proved I am a total fraud in the bravery stakes. I was a blubbing, frightened, vulnerable idiot, making everyone’s life, both nurses and patients...
My boob outing to the Olympics may be off the agenda now - my infection has got stacks worse despite being on mega-strength antibiotics for five days, and I've just spoken to the hospital. The doctor there has told me to get up there as quickly as possible, with an overnight bag packed, and I may be kept in overnight on intravenous antibiotics. More needles, less tennis, to be honest I've had better weekends. It looks like they may also cancel my operation - they can't do the mastectomy...
Today is the very last Monday I will ever have boobs - exactly a week today they will be chopped off. Tomorrow I'm seeing the surgeon, a new one, because they need to allocate the operating theatre times so that he as well as the Portacath surgeon can both do what they have to do to me at the same time. I've written out a list of questions, and the main two focus on whether or not my left boob stays or goes, and whether or not I let them fiddle about with the lymph nodes on the left side....
It's been over a week since I last wrote, and I blame that entirely on the fact that I'm now feeling so much better over the past few days that I've been well enough to do all sorts of other things instead. My arm is still annoyingly hopeless, simple things like buttering bread results in the whole kitchen being buttered too. Everything takes longer, but it's still a whole load better, and a whole lot less painful than even a few days ago, so we're moving in the right direction. However, I...
