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Preparing for cancer
Things I learnt that I hope help others I've listed below
Of course you can't prepare for those words you have cancer. It's like someone has punched you right in the gut and you are sinking to the depths of despair.
Picture in the sun me February 2016 in Portugal loving life feeling good.
Me a couple of months later during chemo treatment. Yes I look scary imagine how I felt but I got through it and now you would never know to look at me what I...
I suppose I always knew that this day had to come but however much you try and prepare it still hits you hard - like a punch in the gut. The hardest thing, as well as trying to get my brain round the fact that my Dad is unlikely to be around come Christmas, is that I am the support for my mum and my sister - everyone turns to me. They have done since the diagnosis and although this is fine, most of the time, sometimes it feels as though no one thinks about me. Not a great talker with regards to...
Hi everyone I'm just after a bit of advice please. My dad was diagnosed last jan 17 with colon cancer and it was in 6 lymph nodes out of 24.
He then had a total perm bowel removal and managed to complete 5 chemo sessions out of 12. He looked so poorly last year but he now looks the picture of health bless him.
We were all looking forward to getting the all clear from his first CT scan in Jan this year but his surgeon advised him that a tiny something come up on his liver?! The surgeon...
Its been just over 12 months since my Whipples Procedure. I cant begin to describe the anguish I first felt when I was given the diagnosis Dec 2016 of a pancreatic tumour at which point it was uncertain whether it was malignant or benign. I was advised that a whipples procedure was my best course of action.
I underwent a Whipples procedure in Jan 2017 and my suggested 2 week hospital stay turned into 2 months due to post operative issues including dumping syndrome and POTS, low blood pressure,...
I know now that the first 10 days after chemo, Prednisone will have me hyped. I must find ways of coping with that. I will put weighty thoughts in a balloon out of reach.
I am making preparation for the next round by:
Getting out of the house, choosing carefully my time, place, purpose. Yesterday I went to the grocery store. I had to stop and sit to rest twice. Came home. Rested. Getting out safely for me is a mental necessity.
Washing, cleaning.
I am using tea tree...
This was my first week back. I am always prepared for anything as I don't expect anything. What I don't understand is when people think because you had cancer removed your brain went with it. It is very upsetting to find just after two months off sick your competence in a job you been doing for nearly twenty year is in question only because you had cancer removed. What is going on in this world, people have gone crazy. With all that happening, I had a Grading in my Karate class on Wednesday. It...
Can I say it’s been a bumpy ride...scary? you bet your ass it was, still is.
I’m here now, grateful, relieved and ever so thankful that circumstances were in my favour for me to be here, at this present moment.
September 11th 2017 was the date & a page in my life I’ll always remember.
The Dr smiled, asked me to take my pants off, whilst he put on the extra long latex gloves, got a huge anal probe from his desk drawer & a tub of Vaseline...
Just joking, trying to deflect, trouble...
Hello!
I have written another blog post on my main website about the side effects I suffered through ABVD and D-HAP chemotherapy.
Lifenlemonsblog x
https://lifenlemons906941011.wordpress.com/2018/02/08/5-side-effects-i-had-with-abvd-and-d-hap/
Just completed the second of my post-op chemo sessions. This was the first time that it was done as an outpatient. Mind you, I still spent all day at the hospital on Tuesday. I was there at 8.15 and was finally sent home at 16.15 with a portable pump to dispense the last drug which takes 24 hours. They were rushing to finish and I think they pushed the drugs through a bit fast! The neuropathy in my fingers has been much worse this time. The start of my treatment was delayed because my white blood...
