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Next episode playing in 13, 12, 11, 10, 9..... I’ve already watched three episodes and I could certainly be using my time more constructively but I need to know what happened next.
You’re just as likely to find Millennials bingeing on Netflix boxsets these days as you are to find them downing alcopops in town. As our generation grows up we’ve found the recovery time from a glass of Pinot is considerably more substantial than it used to be for those university treble vodkas and sambuca...
My partner (aged 78) has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. He has undergone 6 weeks of radiotherapy and is now suffering very badly from night sweats and hot flushes. These are so severe that he has been prescribed hormone therarpy normally aimed at women!
He is very self-conscious about this, and feels abnormal. Is there anybody out there who could offer me advice on how to reassure him?
Many thanks.
MY Wee sister was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at end of April. Was devastating news for her & for rest of us family. She's the youngest of 5 of us & she was fit & healthy, doing Metafit classes prob 4 times a week & other classes in between. Life has changed drastically for her & us in a massive way. Cancer! Cancer! Cancer!! It's even just the word that changed everything!! Emotions, Shock! Horror! Terror! Disbelief! Fear! To name just a few, life changing news for all of us, especially my Wee...
Well, today is my monthly hospital visit for appointment with consultant, usual tests and treatment hut in addition I have yet another bone marrow biopsy to be done. Of all the tests I've had this has to be the one I hate most. It's my fourth in 18 months but it has to be done. Hoping for good results but feeling anxious as I always do once a month. x
So iv been to for a check up, every thing is going in he right direction, but then I asked about how my thyroid is doing, because my daughter has just been told her is under active,
This has been the hardest part.
Since moving and attempting to settle here has been so difficult. There's been problems with the car too which doesn't help.
My symptoms are worse than ever and I am struggling to get through the day. I am exhausted as soon as I wake up. I feel sick and bloated and just so rubbish. I cry constantly and just feel so hopeless. I know it will get better but it just feels to overwhelming, I think it just hits every day that I have/had cancer.
Cancer.
At 22.
And...
Surgery Take Two
Same old. Hospital at 7am, gown and meeting with my surgeon. This time i was in the anaesthetic room by 8.30, not that this helped at all. Panic set in, and I had a mini tantrum in all honesty. They decided to use the gas mask this time before placing the cannula (three attempts at insertion judging by the puncture marks on my arms).
Came round from the op around 3 hours later, morphined up and was take to the ward. Much better this time, appetite and voice too! spent the day with...
After finishing work, I went along to the hospital for my results. In all honesty, part of me knew what the outcome was going to be, given the severity of my symptoms and the size of the lump.
I walked into the consultant's office and there was another nurse in there but wearing purple. Her id badge was in a Macmillan clip and I knew immediately that it was some form of cancer. After talking through the next stages (surgery and RAI), I was taken away by Lynne to talk everything over and talk through...
Surgery Take One
In I went, 7am, ready to go. Got into my gown, filled in the forms, had my weight and height done and then the wait began. A long, long wait. Until 2.30 that afternoon, by which point I was in tears and starting to panic.
Into the anaesthetic room and that when it really kicked off, racing heartbeat, hyperventilating and crying like a child. I was frankly terrified. Not one part of me wanted it to happen and I could not calm myself down. So after a smothering hug (or restraint)...
So the day rolled around two weeks later for the biopsy results, and this time was slightly better news, but definitely not good news. The sample showed pointers for thyroid cancer, but still no diagnosis, so surgery was the next step.
Given the size of my lump and the placement, my consultant suggested having it taken out even with a clear biopsy, and now it would definitely have to come out for a full pathology. Surgery was booked for 12 days later and the wait began.
Mum and Fraser (aforementioned...
