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  • Valentinex2's blog
    Me and 11 platelets - out for a drink!
    Hi All again As some of you know I have AML and actually feel extremely well - I have been reading some of your blogs where you are worrying about platelets crashing to 200. Well - when I went for bloods last Wed my platelets were sitting at 11! I am going next Fri for blood transfusion which will probably put them up slightly. What I can't understand is how I am still alive - perhaps I am an alien? I went out tonight for a drink with friends and kept thinking - My God - my platelets are sitting...
    Former Member
  • babydaisy's blog
    I would like to get in contact with other people who have had oesophegal cancer touch their lives in one way or another.
    I am hoping that this website is going to put me in touch with other people who have experienced oesophegal cancer in one way or another. I am interested to know and learn all there is to know and am hoping you lovely people on here can help.
    Former Member
  • Trudy jayne's blog
    Sore & fed up :O(
    well after all the confusion during the past two weeks as to whether or not i was to have the op (right excision axillary nodes) it went ahead yesterday as planned. i was hoping it would be as quick and easy as the previous one ....i had an enlarged lymph node removed from my groin at the end of may when they found the cancer..... but i was very much mistaken i woke up from the general anaesthetic very weepy and in agony.i was given the maxium amount of morphine my consultant would allow which...
    Former Member
  • babydaisy's blog
    at the beginning
    Hi all this is my 1st blog on here. Today my mum got results for her cat scan for her cancer in her oesophagus and was told that it hasn't spread which is good news but her lymph node gland things are enflammed which she is saying is normal due to where the cancer is which is near her stomach. There was talk a few weeks ago about an operation but she has now been told that there is no op and that chemo and radiotherapy works best with this type of cancer. She now has to have a Pet scan just waiting...
    Former Member
  • Trishka's blog
    Side effects kick in
    ... it shouldn't really come as a surprise but it has... to hubby. He walks up a few steps and is out of breath. If life had gone to plan he would have been climbing Killimanjaro next week and here he is, struggling to get upstairs and nothing to do with altitude. He's also been feeling nauseaus alot. He's not actually sick but feels lousy. This last couple of days he has gone to bed for the afternoon - he probably would have slept through dinner too had I not woken him. He has to take medication...
    Former Member
  • Valentinex2's blog
    Living with my unwelcome guest!
    As already I stated I was only diagnosed with AML a few weeks ago - fortunately my family although shattered are all grown up - must be so hard for those of you who are seriously ill and have young children to care for. Anyway I have decided to look on my illness as an unwelcome guest and call him Luke - I didn't want Luke here at all - but now I have to learn to live with him. The thing he hates most is me being happy and cheerful - so I am determined to be that as much as is possible. He loves...
    Former Member
  • chrissiQx2's blog
    Is this real?
    I have just spent the morning at work providing beauty treatments for several clients, I'm now at home listening to my delightful children arguing and throwing cushions at each other. Its just gone very dark outside and a rumble of thunder just resounded near by. I can hear police sirens in the distance and the downpour of rain that has just begun. I'm wondering if my son is ok at his friends house and what I am going to do for dinner as I need to go shopping. I'm thinking about phoning mum to...
    Former Member
  • Julesx2's blog
    Occupational Health - here we go again.
    Am off to OH this morning to discuss a phased return to work again. Tried before the summer hols to get back but after being back for a few days came down with a bug wich floored me- I guess this has knocked my confidence. Still trying to be positive but some days its hard as I feel I will never get back to the way I was before my diagnosis. Ive come through the worst ( I hope ) so why is everything so difficult now? I keep telling myself its only a job but ..... Hey ho! Have had a moan now gonna...
    Former Member
  • Lari's blog
    TAC chemo
    Hi everyone I am a bit new to this blogging business. I am starting TAC chemo (breast cancer) tomorrow and although there is lots of info on side effects nobody tells you when they start. Can someone give me an idea as my daughter is having her twelve's birthday party on Saturday (she is having 30 friends for a barbeque). Thanks Lari
    Former Member
  • LJane's blog
    Melanoma cancer stage 4
    This is my first blog so here goes... I had a malignant melanoma removed in 1993 and after years of regular check ups, and thinking it was all behind me, in April 2009 I discovered a lump and immediately went to my GP. After lots of checks, ultrasound, blood test and MRI scan I was devastated to be told the melanoma cancer had returned as secondary cancer in both lungs and both breasts. It was such a terrible shock! Iinitially I just wanted to cry, then felt angry, but what good would that do...
    Former Member
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