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  • Bertiebassetts Return Journey
    Nuisance PM's
    Hi just to make you all aware that there is another nuisance sending PM's asking for love!!! Teri
    Former Member
  • Babybear's Blog
    Nuisance PM's
    Hi just to make you all aware that there is another nuisance sending PM's asking for love!!! Teri
    Former Member
  • Mirrors's blog
    new just saying Hi!!
    Hi, just tucked mum up in bed, she has terminal pancreatic cancer, recently had a stent replaced but is still very weak and jaundiced, each morning I'm hoping some of her energy has come back, but not sure if it will. Although she is 82 yrs she was very active and is a strong, gentla and wonderful mum. Its late and quiet in the house as family in bed, this is my 'emotial' time (I keep it wrapped up most of the time). was trying to get on the chat but haven't been able to manage it yet, it never...
    Former Member
  • sarah61's blog
    New Pain
    My Dad has has 2 lots of x 5 radiotherapy for head and neck cancer. he has secondarys in his lungs. He was admitted to hospital last Friday with severe pain in the soft tissue at the back of his arm. This had been going on for a while but he had'nt told me. Mum had been rubbing in Ibulieve which Dad said had helped a bit. On Friday the Doctors examined him and he was quite tender under his arm. Alarm bells began ringing in my ears, has it now spread to his lymph nodes?? the docs were quite useless...
    Former Member
  • Valentinex2's blog
    Me and 11 platelets - out for a drink!
    Hi All again As some of you know I have AML and actually feel extremely well - I have been reading some of your blogs where you are worrying about platelets crashing to 200. Well - when I went for bloods last Wed my platelets were sitting at 11! I am going next Fri for blood transfusion which will probably put them up slightly. What I can't understand is how I am still alive - perhaps I am an alien? I went out tonight for a drink with friends and kept thinking - My God - my platelets are sitting...
    Former Member
  • babydaisy's blog
    I would like to get in contact with other people who have had oesophegal cancer touch their lives in one way or another.
    I am hoping that this website is going to put me in touch with other people who have experienced oesophegal cancer in one way or another. I am interested to know and learn all there is to know and am hoping you lovely people on here can help.
    Former Member
  • Trudy jayne's blog
    Sore & fed up :O(
    well after all the confusion during the past two weeks as to whether or not i was to have the op (right excision axillary nodes) it went ahead yesterday as planned. i was hoping it would be as quick and easy as the previous one ....i had an enlarged lymph node removed from my groin at the end of may when they found the cancer..... but i was very much mistaken i woke up from the general anaesthetic very weepy and in agony.i was given the maxium amount of morphine my consultant would allow which...
    Former Member
  • babydaisy's blog
    at the beginning
    Hi all this is my 1st blog on here. Today my mum got results for her cat scan for her cancer in her oesophagus and was told that it hasn't spread which is good news but her lymph node gland things are enflammed which she is saying is normal due to where the cancer is which is near her stomach. There was talk a few weeks ago about an operation but she has now been told that there is no op and that chemo and radiotherapy works best with this type of cancer. She now has to have a Pet scan just waiting...
    Former Member
  • Trishka's blog
    Side effects kick in
    ... it shouldn't really come as a surprise but it has... to hubby. He walks up a few steps and is out of breath. If life had gone to plan he would have been climbing Killimanjaro next week and here he is, struggling to get upstairs and nothing to do with altitude. He's also been feeling nauseaus alot. He's not actually sick but feels lousy. This last couple of days he has gone to bed for the afternoon - he probably would have slept through dinner too had I not woken him. He has to take medication...
    Former Member
  • Valentinex2's blog
    Living with my unwelcome guest!
    As already I stated I was only diagnosed with AML a few weeks ago - fortunately my family although shattered are all grown up - must be so hard for those of you who are seriously ill and have young children to care for. Anyway I have decided to look on my illness as an unwelcome guest and call him Luke - I didn't want Luke here at all - but now I have to learn to live with him. The thing he hates most is me being happy and cheerful - so I am determined to be that as much as is possible. He loves...
    Former Member
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