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Had good day yesterday after having pet scan last week went to see oncologist yesterday and he amazed me by telling me the cancer in my lyphnodes in neck and chest are inactive !!!! i do still have `1 node which he thinks maybe slighlty active in my chest he is looking to seee if he shoul;d do a ultrasound biiopsy and if it is a new drug which is a ten minute infuusion!! i am over the moon !! best news i could of wished for he said i had responded very well to treatment i went through really bad...
…..but don’t despair! It was the weekly jaunt to see the consultant today to get the ok for chemo this week and woe is me ….the little toe-rag is on holiday! Fancy that, holidays in August tut tut, how dare he. Mr Bad Fairy muttered under his breath about Dr Socks probably being on a yacht sailing to and fro between exotic islands. I was thinking more caravan at Cromer maybe? After a mere two hour wait and numerous cups of tea I was summoned in to see the covering doctor...
Hi Re my post earlier in the week asking about protocols for Lung Cancer.
I was asking as my sister had told my mum that she had Lung Cancer, However the pieces did not fit and I was questioning what the Dr had told her apparently according to her the Consultant just told her it was there without doing any further tests. don't know whether to be relieved at the fact she does not have it or angry for the lies she told my mum who thought it would be a good idea to tell me. I have spent the past 2...
Well it's my 6 week check up tomorrow and the first view of a comparison scan that will show that we have shrunk these bastards down. I'm feeling like I have a lot more energy and have just come off all my pain relief which must be showing that we're winning.
Had a great family gathering at Norfolk at the weekend and it was wonderful to have so much support and encouragement.
I'll let you know the full outcome of tomorrow's visit! Keep fighting.....xx
Well finally I have had surgery to remove the tumour in my liver and I am now at home recovering. It was all so much easier than my big op in March as I was lucky enough to have laparoscopic surgery and even though the op lasted just under 5 hours I feel I am improving day by day instead of week by week!
What I am finding hard is getting my mind set to wait again - 6 weeks for follow up with consultant and then I don't know how long till chemo starts. Even after 10 months of this drawn out treatment...
More or less two months after the initial diagnosis, I have today started the first phase of treatment: chemoradiation to shrink the tumour. My ECG was 'better' today and although neutrophil count a little lower than they would normally accept, I took my first Capecitibine this evening. No nausea yet, but this could be a cumulative thing.
I was in Northampton for two hours this afternoon with the repeat ECG followed by first radiotherapy. B was with me which was welcome because there was...
After the year I've had I was never sure I would reach our wedding anniversary - but I did, so had to celebrate with the family. As they all live 100 miles away from us we decided the easiest thing to do was go to them, so Thursday we packed up the motorhome and took off to a rally at Abingdon, a site on the cricket field just by the river Mick took the van and I drover the car (and suddenly realized after a little way that the furthest I had driven myself over the last 2 yeasr was about 10 miles...
Hi, just posting this on the off-chance that one of you may have come across this genetic mutation. There's apparently only around 100 families worldwide with this but Im hoping just one of them comes on here. Just had Joe's DNA results back and been told this is the devil responsible. I'd really like to speak with anyone that has this mutation and is having screening or has had a prophylactic gastrectomy - got a lot of very stressed relatives right now and could use all the help and advice...
It's been 7 weeks now since losing my Dad to this awful illness. How I wish that he was still here with us but without the illness.
I'm normally quite a strong individual that can take issues head on and deal with them, but this time it seems like I've been caught out....
I couldn't sleep lastnight, worst night in all, I must have fallen asleep about 5am ish. When i got out of bed late morning I've just been feeling 'empty' inside, lost, and a whole lot of other feelings I can...
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I just need to write something to get it off my chest. I am at work and cannoit concentrate.
Twelve years ago I had ovarian cancer and am fine. Five years ago I had thyroid cancer and again an fine. Several weeks ago I experienced some changes in bowel habit, only for a week but long enough to make me think something was not quite right. To cut a long story short, two weeks ago I had a rigid sigmoidoscopy and because the registrar could not see enough (apparently the suppository had not worked...
