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So the wi-fi went down right on cue and so I'm starting this on Word until they sort it out and I can get back online.
I arrived at 8.30 this morning – early for my 9am appointment. The room wasn't ready and so I waited in a side room with a cool cloud screen on the ceiling -
- until lunchtime. That was usual hospital waiting-around stuff so I wasn't too bothered, plus the staff are very friendly.
A couple of students came and chatted to me while I waited, then the nurses took...
Tomorrow is R-Day and still no side-effects from the thyrogen that I've noticed, so apart from feeling angry with an eBay seller from yesterday I'm feeling not-too-bad.
I'm gathering the last few things together to pack and it seems rather a lot, although most of it is meds and washing stuff and not all of it will be coming back.
I'll do a final unpack and repack this evening but today is chill day and cuddle BF day.
I said I was going to do a list of tips to try and help other people...
Now bearing in mind 3 years earlier samples of my lung were sent off to a pathologist in Dublin because they were confusing and that turned out to be lung cancer, set alarm bells ringing but still pushed it to the back of my mind. I found out Christmas Eve it was definitely a cancer measuring 4cm. Not the best Christmas present I have received :) They finished the job they started in January and as I said before am now awaiting RAI.
In some respects I feel this path has been rockier than with...
It was 5 weeks yesterday since I had surgery to complete a total thyroidectomy but almost 8 months since it all began. After having a few falls my GP thought it was best to send me for a MRI scan just to make sure I hadn't had a small stroke ( I had a stroke 16yrs ago ). Anyway to cut a long story short, it has been proved I actually do have a brain but it also picked up a small cyst on my thyroid, that was June 2013.
I was reassured that it was a cyst but they thought it was wise to send...
I feel happier today but apprehensive. The district nurse is coming to give me the first of two thyrogen injections this morning. I don't know exactly what time but between 10am and midday. BF is still asleep. I'm not sure if I told him that I want him to be there when she/he comes but I'll take him a brew at 10 and hope that helps wake him up enough. He's not exactly a morning person.
It's an intramuscular injection, like my insulin, but it has to be delivered in a specific way in...
Well, I still have a kind of depression hangover from yesterday, not helped by my GP forgetting to put my anxiety on my fit note as well as my cancer. It probably just slipped his mind but the DWP get picky about things like that. So guess what, I got even more anxious! BF is helping me sort it out today but I feel as though I have a big tangled ball of yarn where my brain ought to be, I've had three cups of coffee this morning. I probably should have eaten breakfast but I couldn't whip up the enthusiasm...
