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My Chemo Suite cheerfully informed me today that there has been a policy review on appointments, and as a result we shall henceforth have our consultations on different days from our treatment. "WTF???" as my nephew would say.
The reason for this breathtaking piece of blue skies thinking is to reduce long waits for consultations. So now I have to drag myself to hospital (mine 30 miles away) twice every 3 weeks instead of once, not to mention ad hoc scans, radioactive blasts, sundry organ...
My scans have come back showing no signs of cancer anywhere other than the original tumour site discovered a couple of weeks ago. Yippee! What a massive relief.
I was told far more than I expected over the phone. The proposed course of treatment will be five weeks of radiotherapy and chemo (the latter being a low dose I gather which helps the effectiveness of the radiotherapy). The five weeks is Monday to Friday with time off for good behaviour at weekends. I then rest for 4-6 weeks and have another...
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I am back on facebook and melanomates...look out for me
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Hi all, my name is Linda i am 57 yrs old and live in Southort, Merseyside.
I'm not really one who writes Blogs etc but felt i would give it a try and see how it goes. If it gets a bit too heavy please let me know.
My experience's upto date:
My first encounter with the hospital came at the end of March, my Doctor asked referred me to the hospital to be checked out because i developed badly swollen ankles and legs. I was kept in overnight and given a clot busting injection. I was also given...
I realise looking at the blogs on this site, that I have a long journey ahead. Tomorrow I expect a call from the Colorectal nurse booking me in to see the consultant to discuss treatment in light of whatever is revealed by the MRI and CT scans. I just hope that the results get to the multidisciplinary meeting in time and we're not delayed by a week (these meetings are every Thursday morning in MK I gather). And then of course I hope to hear that the cancer hasn't spread and there is a clear...
Yes 4 weeks ago 20th May cancer became part of my life. The shock of being told was both comforting (knowing what was finally wrong with me) but yet devasatated to know i had a big big problem to deal with.
I had had my cancer found by chance. Was i lucky? i thought to myself or is this sheer bad luck, my emotions began to take over. I'd actually gone to the hospital for a problem with heavy periods and the agreement was the week before to do an hystersectomy, so they took a biopsy from my womb...
So 2 days after my operation and i find out that there is yet another bloody tumor in my spine.... wonderful! Fed up of feeling like a complete outsider, I just want my old life back! People say you know who your friends are once you have cancer- mine wasnt the boy who was suposed to be my closest friend. Joined here to try and see if I could make some friends - all be it online- and what do you know, again im the outsider. Never felt so damn c**p in a long while - with fake users in the chatroom...
Although I did phone them and say I felt sick which was true in a way but it was anxiety sickness not really illness. I watched The Mummy Diaries last night which I knew I would find upsetting but I felt it would be really useful for me in my situation. Dan watched it with me which I didnt think he would and we found ourselves talking about lots of stuff, cancer stuff and dying stuff. I have to be honest its the first time in ages we have talked about it and not because we dont talk about it, its...
Tom got the results of his endoscopy today and although the cancer in his lymph nodes and adrenal glands have not got any bigger the tumour in his oesophagus has grown bigger again since the chemo stopped in Jan.His oncology consultant has arranged for him to have 10 days of radiotheraphy and said that at first things will get worse before they get better.He says that 7 out of 10 see noticable improvement in their eating once things have settled down,just wondered if anyone else has had radiotheraphy...
I have a port a cath which is so painful to use I can't go on with it. I refused a hickman line as I didn't want the tubes hanging out but I wonder if that would be better for me. I don't think I could do PICC as I have to be put out for any procedues and I read that this is done awake. Any info greatly received. Thanks Jen XX
