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Hi... Hope everyone is enjoying the good weather?
Today i went for re dressing at the walk in centre,... below are the photos
just a warning about tubigrip single or double... well at least in my case... there was nothing between my skin and the tubigrip. so over 2 days of hot weather and the tubigrip moving... a blister happened under one of the peices of micropore holding the pad in place. so when the plaster was taken off, the skin over the blister came off too... see pic! ouch!
otherwise it...
Hiya everyone, iv just joined and not to sure what im doing! i would love to talk to people who are going through the same difficulties and emotions that cancer throws at you.
Im 32 and have a fantastic husband and 2 great children but 2 weeks before xmas i was told that i had breast cancer in my right breast which had spread to my armpit and lymph nodes in my neck. i had been going to my GP for 12 months previous because of a lump in my breast and neck but he assured me it was a sports injury.
...Well i can not believe what my mother in law has done now , do i cry or do i punch someone or something i am so angry ,,
most of you prob know since ju,was diognosed she was a nightmare , treated me like dirt but i put up with it for him , sometimes it was so hard but i was always the better person, well at the funeral she told everyone i didnt care for him properly and he should have been in a hospice , well she had to leave as noone else believed a word she was saying,. i have no regrets over...
chemo cancelled for monday, blood results no good. feeling fed up and not very good. not sure wether feel bad coz of the chemo or if i have coughtt some bug.... the bloods say i have an infection but they dont know where??? on the plus side i finished my radio therapy this week. got doctors appointment later just to check me over. take care everyone love sue xxx
In 2007 my mum had breast cancer at the age of 69. She needed radiotherapy only and made a full recovery, she went for screenings and only had to go once a year as everything was ok. Mean while from 2008 she started suffering from frequent water infections, would complain of a pain round her front to half way round her back on the left side. She must of put a water sample in every week fortnight for almost 18 months. Numerous water infections were detected and anti biotics were given. Eventually...
Chemo 3 went without a hitch this morning. Sal is already feeling the effects; starting to feel tired, funny taste in her mouth.
They did notice that Sal's red count is down so she is anaemic and that might explain her breathlessness and excessive fatigue. So they have scheduled a full blood transfusion of 2 units on Monday. Even that is a bit of an ordeal. Each unit takes 3 hours and so it will turn out to be a long day for her especially when she is going to be already fatigued from the chemo...
Today its three months since my step-dad died. That's 13 weeks since we held his hand as he reached the end of his journey. So how are we doing? Well, Mum is doing amazingly well. She has even been out to a couple of functions that she would normally have attended with him - and the fact that she coped, and enjoyed it, has given her confidence a real boost. She has a little colour back in her cheeks, and may even have regained a bit of weight. She has told me that she still wakes up and thinks she...
i was told 2 days ago that mom has maybe 1 - 4 months left, she has advanced stomach cancer, she has never been seen about this before, she was in hospital 5 months last year due to a emergency op on a strangulated hernia, she had a 3rd of her small bowel removed, from that she went septic, had pnuemonia, caught mrsa in the wound. she came home christmas but was never right, couldnt eat, was losing weight, the doc put it down to been very ill previous, in 10 months she lost 6 stone. i phoned a ambulance...
I have now finished my chemo (Alimta and Cisplatin), had my CT scan and I was given my results yesterday. The meso is stable and there has been no spread - yippee!! I don`t have to see the oncologist until September so I am now looking forward to a good summer with my husband, sons and their families.
Joining the MacMillan online community has been one of the wisest things I have done recently. There are so many inspirational people on the site and I have found all this first-hand information so...
the doctor stopped my mums chemo on tuesday saying its not doing any good
so we dont get a new scan and we dont know how long she has got ;left
they said in november 6-9 moths and we are now in the seventh month cant they give use more info, the doctor gave the impression he was not a@#ed, why are the macmillan nurses and the people in wiilow brook so good and caring yet the doctors treat you like you are on a assembly line
