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My name is Catheryn, this is my first ever blog. I have had surgery for bowel cancer and am on a trial 12 week course of adjuvant chemo. The drugs I am having are xeloda (infusion once every 3 weeks) and capecitabine tablets for 14 days then 7 days break.. Is there anyone else out there on the "Scott trial" ?
Also has anyone got any comments re peripheral neuropathy casused by chemo drugs, (numbness and pain in fingers), mainly how to get through it..
Would love to hear from anyone...
well tommorow is the day ,back to work , yes same place that treated me so badly, but i need a focus ,to keep my mind busy, but i feel sick at the thought ,i dont know if im strong enough ,also doesnt help my fav resident is dying which isnt going to be easy, but ive got to do it, its what im good at giving someone that love and peace and kindness at the end ,
dont get me wrong i have been a bit brighter since fri, ive had a nice weekend, and quite a few smiles and laughs , which is a good start...
Hi graeme thanks for the blog, yes i have a mac nurse shes called janet and shes brilliant. As you say you can talk to them as though youv'e known them forever. You sound as though your having a bit rough at the moment - hope it all goes well for you. By the way graeme i am a rugby man and im a keen supporter of Hull FC ( the Black & Whites) i'm a season passholder at the KC stadium. Hull won today they were playing at castleford and they won 34-26 which takes them to 4th in the league...
Got sent home from work on friday, it was a gorgeous day, and right about 11am Yvonne would have been buying the bbq and filling up the paddling pool for my cousins kids, but to me it's raining every day. Spent almost the whole day crying. Missing her so much, didnt realise that it was an acutal physical pain aswell as mental.
How do you deal with the anger? I'm so angry all the time, and i've got noone to blame! Want to blame god, but want to get into heaven to see her again, so who...
hi all my hubby lost his fight this morning 22 may 2010 at 12-15 am it was very peaceful, just got home after spending 5 days in hospital with him, at least he is at peace now, will try bloging again soon love and hugs to you all
love sandra.............xxx
Well I haven't done a post for quite a few days now so I thought I would write a quick update of how last week went.
All in all it hasn't been a bad week. Sal still has part of her surgery wound that hasn't healed yet and that is the main issue right now. The surgery wound healed but when she was in hospital last cycle a 1 inch section of it came apart and got slightly infected. It hasn't really healed much since then. No one at the hospital seems concerned about it though. They have looked...
Hi to all,
Today is the third day when all I want to do is cry. I feel totally miserable and I don't know why, as now the pain is more under control I should be feeling better and I don't.
Feel better by late afternoon but mornings are so uncomfortable and by the time it's bed-time I feel shattered again.
When initially diagnosed in 2007 went through the treatment with not a tear shed, but now I think it's just hit me hard. I'm sorry to be miserable but if I speak out loud about how...
thanks for getting in touch Graeme. I thought the new oncology centre at Castle Hill was great as well. My specialist is a Dr M. Butt, and hes the chemo specialist. They are giving me anti-sickness drugs, and im going in as a day patient. As you say Graeme the new place is a world away from HRI. Keep in touch. Darter
….and an update. In reverse order. Ten weeks of the little “Red Devils” followed by a scan and then we’d see where we were going next. Ten weeks have gone and the scan has been done. Despite my reservations that nothing feels any different and my liver function hasn’t improved tremendously, Dr Socks has cast his “untrained eye” over the scan and thinks it’s worthwhile doing, possibly, another six weeks with the “Red Devils”. Shows what I know! Besides, untrained eye or not, Dr Socks...
Hi all, today was my assessment day at the brand new oncology centre at Castle Hill hospital in Cottingham near Hull. The place is marvellous not like a hospital at all. The actual assessment took just under 4 hours and i was shown round the treatment room, very nice. My nurse, mandi, gave me an injection in my bum ( i think she enjoyed that) and i started taking the folic acid tabs. My treatment starts a week today, the 28th, and i have to be at the centre by 8-30am. So much to take in but i'm sure...
