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I am Vanessa, I am married with 3 children.
My lovely inspirational mother is 59 next week, just retired from teaching.....
So the introduction
My dear mum had been having lots of cramps in her legs and twiching in her eylids, pain after eating and a bit of loose stools but nothing to be overly concerned. We though it was through stress of her job, being a little over weight and having a bad diet?!
She decided to go to the doctors, who sent her for a US for gallstones, however this is where the...
I haven't posted on here in what feels like forever. I suppose I've really felt like I've moved on a lot. However, it doesn't take a lot to get dragged back into the cancer nightmare.
I visited a non oncologist doctor this week and he felt something in my abdomen. There are a hundred (very likely) explanations but obviously to be safe I'm going to have a scan.
I don't have the words for how it feels to be back in the exact same place as I was 3 years ago, waiting for scans...
Well had my 4th chemo on Monday, I now know what to expect and felt very tired yesterday and today have the chemo smell and taste about me which I hate.
My hair is hanging on, I seem to lose some when it has its first wash after chemo and then settles down again, I think if I had or do lose it it will be the final straw for me as this isent easy even though on the whole my reaction hasent been that bad.
I feel fat and ugly:(( im still managing to work most days for 5 hours.
Only 2 chemo to go...
I don't know why I've decided to join. I am not sure if writing on here will help me in the slightest. But since finding out that mum has terminal cancer there seems to be schism between me and the rest of the world - who just don't get it.
And why would they? Watching the person that you love the most, suffer, lose hope and confront their own mortality - while you wait with them, helpless is not a place where anyone would want to be.
There's a surreal feeling of loss - one were you...
haven't been on for a while but I decided to day to come on and say how I feel about haveing just had my first chemo on wednesday, the actual chemo its self was fine , Dorathy my nurse is liovely shame she's retiring in a couple of weeks. but as the day when on I could feel the drugs taking over, by 10pm ( chemo at 1pm) i could keep my eyes open and I felt quesy but not too bad, OMG as the night went on i could sleep my brain was going about 100 mile an hour , I was being run over by a steam roller...
Hi, I’m Michael and I’m a nurse specialist working in a specialist surgical centre which offers treatments for thoracic cancer. This includes lung cancer and other cancers which have started in the chest or spread there from another body site.
Most of my time is spent seeing patients and helping them understand why they have been offered a particular treatment or helping them deal with the consequences of their disease. I work alongside all the healthcare team and regularly deal...
I feel so guilty even writing this that I am fighting with myself every letter. I have had a very eventful life so far and was a troubled young man for many years working in jobs I hated and partying as if everyday was my last. I lost my father to a heart attack and my mother to cancer over 15 years ago within a few years of each other while they both were quite young. I guess the loss did not help my stability and I remained very unhappy until around five years ago when I finally slowed down and was...
My husband is having a really rough time with his chemo for T cell Lymohoma...he's had 5 out of 6 CHOP cycles...since day 1 he has had the most debilitating cough, he cant talk, eat or drink without having coughing fits, he's exhausted...the drs keep treating him for a gastric reflux cough but he hasnt had any obvious signs of this and no-one has checked his ;lungs.... not one thing has worked to ease his cough....has anyone else had this problem ?? His quality of life is appalling....
Dec 2009 – July 2012
A big Hi to everyone out there old and new with very best wishes sent out to you all.
I had a quick recap of my blogging on here and was first amazed to see my first blog was December 2009, where I was feeling my way round the site and asking for advice about my upcoming surgery. I found support and friendship when times were very unsure indeed.
I would never have believed that when joining as a patient I would be searching support and advice as a carer to my dear...
