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  • marie millie's blog
    c.t.scan
    hi there,just had another c.t.scan this is my last for awhile i hope as i was on a choras trial so that is for them to put onto my records,next will be my first outpatients check up since finishing my chemo,you know i feel as if you have to live on a knife edge for ever more how to you get use to this can anyone tell me,i feel myself i have done very well coping with cancer,its just the thought this is my way of life now how do you cope,in a lot of ways it has made me feel very bitter,yes i know...
    Former Member
  • lupem's blog
    My life ......today
    I've always been an optimistic person but thats with a heavy dose of relying on my Heavenly Father and my faith. We are always faced with challenges, daily, hourly and in a split second it can change. The mood, the ideas, goals that have been set previously, flood the mind today, i struggle as a spouse of a cancer patient. It started as throat cancer and has now spread out throughout his body. Im sure u know the feeling, going through but not being the one going through it is just as draining...
    Former Member
  • ilovehersomuch's blog
    Consultants forget the Patients
    As I mentioned previously mum was told by the consultant on Friday that they were no longer going to treat her cancer and everything now would be about palletive care. Fine if thats how it has to be, but the consultants seem to forget they may deal with 100's of patients suffering from this disease a day but my mum and dad have never had to deal with it before. They do not know what is normal, not normal, who they should contact, who they should turn to for the answers. So the consultant packs...
    Former Member
  • Noj's blog
    The start of a journey
    Several people have suggested that keeping a diary of what you experience on the cancer treatment journey is a good thing to do.... so I did. I started writing down all my experiences and the thoughts and feelings that went along with them. Then my hard drive crashed and I lost the lot! (My fault for not running regular enough backups but I have forgiven myself as I have had other things on my mind recently!). So.. I have now decided to do it as a blog here. Who knows... perhaps someone other...
    Former Member
  • duff's blog
    hi
    hello everybody, getting a little fed up that results through from the last scanned octreotide scan come out clear. This is the third scan I've had, but the doctors still tells me.carcinoid syndrome still have all the symptoms, and they're getting worse, fell over twice last week, and it's a Long Way down when you are 6 foot four lol but seriouslyI serotonin levels of over 1700 and above all the symptoms of asthma, get very short of breath, just talking if I'm doing any training. Afterwards,...
    Former Member
  • jenham's blog
    2 ops in one
    I just had a bowel resection and a liver resection done together. I was originally told this was unusual but could be posssible and I am so glad it was possible for me. I just wonder if anyone else has had this done together or how unusual it is. I don't have a problem just curious. Jen XX
    Former Member
  • Jillyanna's blog
    what else can go wrong with my body!
    I'm sat hit with my lap top wondering why my body seems to be giving up on me, I'm not old not young (mid 40's acturally!) I've looked after my bones kept fit don't come into any risk catagories low cholesterol, don't smoke no cancer in family tree, (heart disease-yes) but my gran is 108 and they all seem to live long lives, so why have i been chosen to break the chain! I wonder about how i will die!! Anyway my latest problem is this pain i've got in my coccyx?? went to my doctor as the pain has...
    Former Member
  • Margaret09's blog
    Lost my dad
    well I just lost my dad last year but I can't seem to come to terms with it I feel really depressed and down I have a child so she helps take some of the pain away am only 20 and I have never felt like this before and I am having to cope with my mum spiralling out of control and it just adds to the pressure I am new to this so I don't know what goes on after this but I do need done support and someone to talk to who has experienced this to.
    Former Member
  • Helengx2's blog
    well the news was bad!
    As I posted previously, my husband was being investigated for bladder cancer, and now 2 years to the exact date that I was diagnosed with breast cancer, he has been told he has bladder cancer. Isn't life cruel!!
    Former Member
  • ilovehersomuch's blog
    Can't Sleep
    I am struggling to get to sleep again. This happened when I first found out about mum, but eased off during her chemo as I had allowed myself to believe that it would prolong my mum's life so much that there was no need to get so upset! Now the treatment has stopped I'm back to facing reality of that my mum is dying and possibly quite soon. I toss thinking about all the things I will not be able to do with my mum. No one in this world is as proud of me as my mum is and no one makes me feel as...
    Former Member
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