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I have no idea what I am doing. I have never blogged before and I have no idea if it will help.
Tomorrow I start the last leg of the treatment plan and commence radiotherapy. After this, I will just need to go for regular checks and pop a pill each day for the next 10 years. Sounds easy.
Two in as many weeks. You can tell the cancer is invading my life more than usual.
I often feel that the only time I write this blog is when I am down. Or something happens. Of course life goes on in the background. The day to day of housework, school, dinner and the general monotony of life. Having cancer does not mean that you can not do this stuff. You just have to do more. Even when you are dog tired, the pain killers aren't working and your body is screaming at you to sit down. You still...
My older daughter is an artist living several hundred miles away. She desperately wants to support me in this and has come up with a way I think is pure genius. For the next 6 months, she is making me a weekly wig out of found materials which she is posting on Instagram (under the name, hannah_pererin). This week's was made out of foil plates. They're not made to be worn, just to make me smile. Which they do. In abundance! Roll on Mondays!
Facing chemo, I felt the need to be strong. Grateful for all the medical interventions and support, I nevertheless felt the need to retain some element of control, to hold on to my identity and, as far as possible, my sense of humour during the process. Spending a day in a chair requires comfortable clothes, but I chose the brightest shirt I could find - a bright pink silk top. Despite the fact that no-one could see them, I wore my new mastectomy undies in deep pink and the child in me delighted...
Just a bit of background - I found a lump in my left breast (after several weeks of intermittent pain) and saw my doctor on the 11th August , referred by her to the local (Sheffield) breast clinic with an appointment on the 15th August. After a consultation and mammogram , off to the radiologist who also had a very good look around in my underarm area- he took two core biopsies (which hurt!) and at that point I was expecting the news that it was suspicious - which when I saw the consultant half...
I finally had the results of my scan on my liver. The tumour has shrunk but is only deemed to be borderline for surgery. Therefore they have recommended a further three months of chemo.
I was initially very disappointed as the only way I will be ‘cured’ is with surgery to both my rectum and liver. But I have to go with the experts in this. The good news is that the chemo has been doing its job.
I went to see my oncologist at my local hospital yesterday to discuss the further chemo. She...
Ok, so 4 days after receiving the news "theres traces of cancer in the biopsy"... how am I feeling?
Well its all happened so fast, referred to consultant after problems eating and swallowing and some wheezing, met consultant on Weds 24th Aug, op on 2nd Sept.
Follow up apt Mon 12th Sept. That's when I heard the news.
So, quickly following on are appts for an MRI scan, CT scan and an apt to see another consultant next week. Its happening very fast, is that a good or bad sign?
MRI scan...
so I have been awake since 2.15 my head is going round at 100mph . I don't want to be starting this journey as I just don't know how it will end .
Having only told my oldest child about the breast cancer yesterday as she was on holiday and came home yesterday .
The poo poo has hit the fan for me this morning I keep telling myself to be calm its all going to be ok but I am just worried they are going to find more then they expected once I am on the operating table .
This is the 4th surgery (lumpectomy, lymph nodes, portacath insertion) and this was the first one done under local anaesthetic and for me, the worst out of all of them I would say.
