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My dads in a hospice at the moment because he's losing weight, suffering with dizzyness and nausea. When we were told in December 2009 that his camcer was terminal and he had 2 years maybe, I thought once we get his meds sorted we'll get him out and start living the rest of his life.
But my family think I need to start preparing myself and I'm in denial about how long he's actually got left. But how do you prepare yourself?
When he went into the hospice on Thursday I really thought...
well what a week, ups and downs, mostly downs to be honest, well yesterday was the final straw, my pregnant best friend and work collegue came for lunch bringing home made soup , lovely i thought really looking forward to a bit of me time ,well she arrived very upset, one of my so called friends and work collegue had told her my hubby only had 2 weeks to live !!!! well i hit the roof , how dare they discuss my business , especially if its not right, we may only have a few weeks but 2 weeks has never...
Well, back from mums monthly post chemo check,and she has been complaining of pain around her tumour site, is this normal. he was told the tumour has not grown, but thay are going to do a CT to check anyway. Just hope it hasn't metastersised elsewhere!! We are keeping positive.
Love to a special lady x
Because I'm under 2 different teams, endocrinology and oncology, I'm used to conflicting opinions and different methods of doing things. And it seems to me, that every doctor I've seen says something bloody different to the last one.
But today, I've seen a total arse of a doctor. I left the oncology dept this morning so wound up I had to have a cinammon whirl at the station, and I've been trying to cut down on cakes and biscuits.
After having scan in Jan, the endo doctor told ...
I can't believe it is the 5th Feb already where does the time go !!
Bert is feeling a lot better today although not out of the woods yet they have stopped his IV antibiotics so fingers crossed. We are looking towards Thursday for going home as we are have a hospital bed installed in the house he is no longer mobile and cannot get up stairs to bed, A little rearranging of furniture in the sitting room and we will have it in there where if he wants to he can watch TV. He has a catheter in and...
hi sarah been to docs and everything seems ok at the which is great.
1 of the doctors thinks she has osteoperois so waiting for an appointment to come thought for a full body scan.
well as i thought and my oncologist thought too surgery isnt an option so she has decided to put me on chemo radiotherapy, cistplatin weekly with the radio for 6 weeks. plus internal radiotherapy afterwards. This new treatment is to start in 3 weeks or so once my bloods are back to normal and scans are done ( i have pet scan on 19th). i am not sure how i feel about all of this just scared,worried, nervous, alone everything to be honest. my mind is in overdrive about what ifs and all that and i am...
I had an allergic reaction to the antibiotics I was given on Monday! I woke up Tuesday morning with the most horrendous headache and a rash from top to toe. I know I am allergic to erithromycin and can now add penicillin to that list too. I havent had antibiotics many times in my life so I think thats why this is only becoming apparent now...it never ends does it!!
So its now Thursday and I still have a headache and I went to my GP this morning who didnt seem too worried but neither did she give...
I always feel like im moaning on here, but i think we just having a really bad time at the moment , another really bad night ,we slept on sofa together till about 11.30, then went to bed but hubby is waking up every hour which i knew so will try sleeping tabs tonight, but what i didnt know is whats going round in his head which i could have guessed, but is fear , he admitted it to our macmillan nurse today,while i was their, he also said he had no quality of life which i also knew but was so hard...
