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At the weekend I received an email from an old friend. I'm sure that many people here will have seen it as it has been going the rounds for some years. It's about the miraculous power of lemons. The first part was innocuous enough - all about how if you put your lemons in the freezer you can grate the peel and use it on food. It's tasty and full of vitamins. So far, so good. But if you scroll down the page, there comes the fatuous assertion that lemons are 10.000 times more powerful than...
As I approach my next team medical checkup day tomorrow and am now nearly 40 days and nights AFTER Radiotherapy treatment finished I am disappointed to state that the throat pain sees me way behind my recovery plan. After drinking a pint of watered down milk shake last Monday via mouth I really thought I had hit the nail on the head and was on the road to all being sorted. Trouble was I tried to do too much and I now need pain relief to swallow anything,so frustrating as I want to ge my life back...
Time to try and assess where I am and how I'm doing. Lots on the Macsite for me to think about. Concluson is that we are all different in the disease we have to face. Nothing is standard and variations from day to day in this person make no sense sometimes.
Good day yesterday. Walking better so that I went out without a stick. Went to the supermarkets for the weekly shopping with my wife who is finding walking extremely difficult at present. She never gives up and insists on doing things to...
i haven’t been here much. Have been busy with my study and calling mum every day
to cheer her up. Also, it is Chinese New Year, busy cooking nice food for the
two. Since i came here, don’t really celebrate Chinese New Year anymore. I don’t
really keen on Christmas either. Not because i don’t like the holiday and
family gathering. I just really dislike the drinking business. I have grown up
in a culture that alcohol only for celebration usage, its icing on the cake. In
China, there...
Another month has begun. It is less dark now except under heavy rain. Today I managed to do some useful work in the garden the first for many weeks. All at ground level, but I was able to use a saw and long-armed secateurs to good effect to prune a large buddleia bush. Next task will be to use the shredder and reduce it all to small pieces for compost.
My pelvic pains continue to improve on abiraterone. The clinic has advised me to stay on injections of tramerin (decapeptyl) as well as abiraterone...
In my last blog entry detailing my background, I completely forgot to mention that the pelvic radiotherapy first time around damaged my hips, leading to my having to have both hips replaced, 12 and 16 months after treatment respectively. You would think I'd remember this, wouldn't you? Blame chemo brain! And also the fact that I was very lucky and both operations and recoveries were problem-free. But it's an interesting point that radiotherapy damages bones. Apparently it can lead to what...
Husband made a small fart saturday morning 18th january, 2 days after stoma reversal. And was discharged cos the beds on ward were needed.
To be fair the A & E had a busy night. But there was a wanderer in the bay and my hubby was the most ablest of the 6 beds and the nurses were short handed. G in the end bed got told to sit on it and leave catheter alone. Might have taken my man half hour to get to the end bed but the other 3 coherent guys used the threat anyway.
So hubby came home saturday...
This blog has been a long time coming. I've been roaming around this site, making the odd comment in the anal cancer (AC) group and in the incurable cancer group, but don't feel I quite belong in either, hence my decision to start a blog. The people in the anal cancer group are all going through treatment the first time around, so I don't feel I'm really much help to them because my treatment failed. So then I searched for people with metastatic AC and found two, including the very...
Dad is now in hospital again for the third time. He was taken in as he'd had a fall and the Mac nurse was quite concerned about him. He was taken to a super palliative care unit which is part of our main Emergency hospital. The care he received there has been amazing. The physical surroundings were like a hotel and the staff were well informed and put us at our ease. However he has now been transferred to our local hospital and it is like going from the Hilton to a Travelodge! The standard of care...
