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  • ladygooner's blog
    side effects???
    Hi there people, I know that I havent been here for a while, I have been busy trying to get my life back to the new normal that we have to get to after the diagnosis and treatment for cancer! I am on the ICON 7 trial for ovarian cancer, having avastin 3 weekly for a year. I have recently developed vertigo, along with a stonking headache and sore neck, and no one seems to know if these may be related to the avastin, I know it is also given for colon cancer, lung and breast cancers as well, so was...
    Former Member
  • Happy-Annie's blog
    Travel Insurance
    Hi Can anybody help or advise me regarding travel insurance? I am trying to sort out travel insurance for both myself and my 23 year old son. My son is going to Cancun in March for a stag week (insurance or not - but of course I rather he did have cover!). I am hoping to travel to New Zealand next year for a long tour. I keep coming up against brick walls by companies saying that they won't cover my son (even though he has been given the all clear for the past 15th months) and the same for me...
    Former Member
  • emmaemily34's blog
    Remission?
    I have had the operation, finished radio/chemotherapy does that now mean I'm in remission??
    Former Member
  • Joanna35's blog
    Hello there, new here!
    Hello all I have just joined and I thought I would introduce myself. My name is Joanna and I am 35 years of age, split up with a long term partner 7 months ago, along the way I met Anne (44 - the lady stood in front of me in my photo), since we have met (only February) we have become inseperable. In March her disabled son Stephen (19) died and I was with her all the way when this happened, and in an odd way it helped me get through my split with my partner, kept my mind on other things. Since her...
    Former Member
  • burnettrobson's blog
    Cervical Cancer
    My daughter discovered she had cervical cancer three years ago while she was pregnant with her second child. Nothing was done until her baby was born then an attempted was made to remove the tumour, however that failed when she 'bled out' and needed 5 pints of blood. Now after chemo and radiotherapy the doctors have told her that basically they don't know how to treat someone her age, if she takes hormone medication she is in a high risk breast cancer arena as that was my first cancer, and if she...
    Former Member
  • emmaemily34's blog
    Embarrassed
    34 year old diagnosed with Vulva Cancer, easy to put it down on paper not so easy to tell people When i mention i have cancer people ask where? my answer ..... down below they automatically think cervical cancer most of the time i dont correct them just embarrassed.
    Former Member
  • purdeybru's blog
    Feeling a little bloated!!
    Not feeling too bad today apart from soreness in what appears to be a new adolescent breast growing at my op site. Kept putting off ringing nurses as don't want to waste their time, but think now i have a lovely pocket of fluid build up in my wound site this is the time to do it. Have to go in this afternoon and have it drained, trust me, nothing can ever be straightforward, I am such an attention seker. lol. I am bored to tears as cannot drive at the moment and my sisters have now flown home....
    Former Member
  • lwal3183's blog
    Its upon us already!
    Oh well, its that time already!! Where has the summer gone? I cant tell you how nervous i have been for the past week, so i cant even imagine how my poor sister has been feeling!!! She goes in today for her Chemo/ Radiation regimine in the lead upto the transplant!! Just when things are back on track, it feels like we're right back at the start!! (not that we could do that all over again!!) It was so sad getting her bag ready, just full of jammie's! Her only holiday this year, and its being spent...
    Former Member
  • Sunflower61's blog
    First chemo over
    Hi Just want to let you all know that I had my 1st dose of chemo at christies on Tuesday got there at 2 but didn't get chemo till 6.30pm, have left it a day or so before I'm sure but so far all is well no side effects yet to speak of, I felt very ill after it got in my system but after a second saline drip I was fit to leave, still on the steroids and the anti nausea but they don't run out till tonight so will keep you informed if things change . I have been told it can hit you a bit later on when...
    Former Member
  • Happy-Annie's blog
    Oh Happy Days!
    Long time no hear. I have looked at blogs quite a lot over the past few months but not added to many. I have been trying to deal with the side effects of chemo, or not as the case maybe now. Not that I am fortunate to be in 'remission' but chemo has been changed from carbotaxol to carbo to carbogem to nothing now because my blood count is non exsistant and my weight has increased dramatically over the past few weeks as has the size of my stomach. Apparently I have a large amount of fluid in...
    Former Member
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