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After my quarterly check up early March, everything was hunky dory. I came back to Scotland for 3 months. I started making plans for the future. Trip to Canada in July, Tenerife with my sister in September, even thought about throwing myself a 60th birthday party in November! Funny how life has a way of kicking you in the teeth when you least expect it. Beginning of April started to feel unwell with lower back and abdominal pain. Thought I'd just overdone things at the gym. GP said he wasn't worried...
“What happened your nose?” The Big Issue seller’s question still runs through me. Mid April I had surgery to remove an infiltrative basal cell cancer from the tip of my nose. The 28mm wound was repaired using skin from my clavicle – now a lump of pasty looking skin on the tip, with two large blood crusts where necrotic tissue was cut away.
Today is the first day I am out without a dressing. Writing this is part of trying to make sense of what I’m feeling, much of which feels...
May marks Skin Cancer Awareness Month, so to recognise this I thought I’d put the spotlight on our Skin cancer and Melanoma groups, and highlight a few really positive, helpful and interesting discussions that have been going on in the groups.
I’ve also put together a few ‘top tips’ that members of these groups have been sharing – but if you’re affected by skin cancer, go ahead and share your tips of thoughts with us in the comments section below.
Discussions...
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May marks Bladder Cancer Awareness Month, and to recognise this, rily – Community Champion for our Bladder cancer group, has put together a few facts about the cancer, and shared with us his story to date.
The below makes for an eye-opening and honest read...
Some facts about bladder cancer:
Just a quick up date.
Well it’s been two and a half years now and so far so good. A lot has happened, I now have three beautiful grandchildren, two boys and a girl, we sold our business and moved close to one of our daughters so lots of baby minding going on, keeping me busy. But what a blessing to be able to do that.
Life is good and I am extremely grateful, reading back on my blog it seems like a long long time ago that the nightmare began. I feel so lucky to be able to be part of my husband...
This is my seventh 7th post / blog
It has been over a year since I had nanonife surgery to remove growth in prostrate. diagnosed january 2018 with Gleason 7 PSA 17, cancer was contained in gland. I have always remained cautious about singing the praises of nanonife as it is still not widely available and long term results have not been published.
My choice to go down the nanonife route was due to the advise given that
a) non invasive surgery b} great recovery time c} does not stop other treatment...
Following last month's 'Meet the Champs' Q&A with MikeO, this month we meet latchbrook, who’s been with the Community since early 2017. You'll find latchbrook champing our Melanoma, Skin cancer and Travel insurance groups, and also welcoming newbies to the Community in our New to the Community group, and giving them a ‘nudge’ in the right direction - what a busy Champion she is!
This time last year, I was sitting by my husband's bedside in the hospital and I said the words that were the most beautiful and the most heart-breaking words I would ever say: It is okay if you want to let go now."
Those words were the most beautiful and loving words I could say to him. I knew how courageously he had been battling with prostate cancer for 15 years. I knew how sick he had become, particularly in the last six weeks of his life,. I knew how little strength he had left. I...
This week marks Dying Matters Awareness Week, and to recognise this, David – author of our recent Life after cancer piece, is back to share his thoughts on death – in particular, his recent visit to a Death Café – something he describes as being a “remarkable” experience.
David’s piece also coincides with Macmillan’s current ‘Let’s Talk About Death’ campaign, which seeks to encourage people to have conversations about death and plans for it. You can find out...
The human body is a highly complex machine which man is unable to understand or create yet. The way it functions is amazing. The heart is most efficient mechanical pump which works incessantly, the brain is a super computer with immense capacity, the nervous system fastest communication network . Man is yet to learn how to make one. The mind is man’s faculty of thinking, reasoning, and applying knowledge and manifested through man’s thoughts, actions, emotion, will, memory, and imagination. The...
