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well here i am 2nd chemo looming in next wednesday havent been as bad as i thought bit spaced out and bloody sick but eating like a little bull terrier so i now look like a fat egg with legs its the tablets the carbucipine thats doing it so im so not happy bout that dr slater will be told!!! woman what are you doing to my once ok figure to be faced with 2 chins and a michelin tyre oh no no no !!!!
the fact that i couldnt get off the bed for three days might have contributed to the spare tyre and...
Had MRI today to see if cancer has spread before RC in late feb. Results next week. Glad thats over. I asked for a sedative before which I was given but it didnt work as I take anti depressants and they did warn me it may not work. 45 minutes of sheer panic, the noise didnt bother me just the narrowness of the tunnel. They did allow me to keep most of my head out which helped. Im glad I stuck it to the end though, at least next week I will know that after RC if Im going to be cancer free or not. Sorry...
June 2010 was the day that changed my life as I have always known it forever when I heard the consultant say to my mum It's lung cancer. My mum was so brave and dignified in her manner and just said ok thats fine at least I know what I'm fighting. Personally I was in bits when I walked out of the consultants office I couldn't speak. Not the best thing I know for my Mum, I will always regret that I wasn't strong for her that day as she was the one putting on the brave face.
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Well what can i say but yes you were all right,Dads funeral went smoothly, we cried lots and later we laughed loads,Dad would have enjoyed the day. Now we have to start to get back to "normal",hubby and me are finding it a struggle not having to "do" things for Dad and seem to just sit there looking at the walls, so we went back to work yesterday,i found out what wonderful people i work with, there was big banners saying "welcome back Sue" the biggest bouquet of flowers i'v ever seen, they made my...
As alot of my concerns have been about how I will look during chemo I decided to do something about it. Had semi permanent eyebrows done on Monday and tried some wigs yesterday, They were amazing and very natural looking, will decide on mine next Wednesday and will have it cut to suit my face shape. Also had Emotional Freedom Therapy which I found really helpful although I did cry, guess that is part of the process. Start my chemo at 11am tomorrow and now just want to get on with it, sooner I start...
i have now been signed off by my Oncologist after 5 years, very mixed emotions but so so happy
Thank you so much everyone that answered yesterday. I was having a wobble and you really touched me xx
After my hurried explanation I thought that I had better fill in some of the finer details.
So Dave has a Grade III Astrocytoma on the rear right hand side of the brain. It is/was roughly the size of the palm of your hand and was too deep to be operated on. He had a grading scan but it could not be used for diagnostic purposes so he had to have a biopsy to grade the tumour.
TBH it has all been a bit...
As if it wasn't bad enough losing Dad before Christmas and trying to come to terms with everthing a life with him no longer there entails, I get kicked in the guts again by my grandad's death less than 2 months afterwards - he had prostate cancer.
Fed up of illness, and funerals, I'm still young, I shouldn't be dealing with all this crap yet.
