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Following a lovely fish and chip supper last night (loads of salt and vinegar) my taste buds this morning seem to be planning their (hopefully temporary) vacation. Despite drinking much more water than normal the inside of my mouth tastes of strange blandness, with saliva seeming much thicker. Still no pain to report which is great, but starting to feel more tired during the day. Can't understand why after 11 hours sleep I still feel tired when I woke up this morning? Didn't want to get up at all...
Ken had his first RT today.
A big talk with the big cheeses before helped him feel better. The fact that the surgeon will make sure that he will be able to breath through his nose somewhere at the end of this was a relief to him.
We were assured that nobody at Mount Vernon had lost their sight through this RT so that is a good thought.
The mask rested on his right eye too much so he had blurry vision afterwards so we will have to mention that tomorrow.
29 to go and they have changed the dates...
Firstly apologies for the formatting of these blogs, I tend to compose them on my phone whilst waiting for appointments, when cut and pasted the words wrap around at end of each line - I hope it still makes sense. Yesterday evening things caught up with me. The emotional, mental and physical experience saw me popping upstairs for 40 winks, which resulted in a much needed 3 hour power nap. Woke to the smell of sizzling steak which was dutifully devoured whilst watching a dour game of Eng v Germany...
Meeting with consultant clarified that despite the RT being targetted they have decided to do a full 'belt and braces' approach which will see both sides of neck and top of chest being treated - the left side of neck and chest will receive a lower dose rate than that of primary and tumour sites on right side of neck. Also advised to gargle with aspirin as well as salt gargling (anyone would think I had nothing better to occupy my time during the day than gargling - still I suppose it is doctors orders...
I feel really sad and depressed at time as my husband does not want anyone to know he has cancer.His cancer has spread to the lymph nodes and now the bones, he is fit and well and has always kept himself that way all his life. I do not understand. He is 60 and i will loose him before retirement together.
The radio therapy starts tomorrow. The last few days have been as bad as can be as we had it confirmed that with the rt being where it is there is a 2-1% chance of late onset blindness.
WOW !! that means a 98% chance of it not happening !!
Nasal cancer is very rare and he got that. I know I shouldn't say these things but what is this page for if I can't put it down.
That scary feeling in my stomach and I'm not even the one going through it.
How brave everyone is to do this.
I adore...
Hi all,
I've been watching this group for a while and have been putting off writing this, because somehow, sharing this with a group of people who know EXACTLY what my family is going through, makes it more real. I can deal with the casual aquaintance or colleague asking me how things are going because my reply feels like a script of a story I've seen on TV.
My mum has stage four Stomach cancer. She's had four cycles of chemo (ECF), out of possible total of six. They've stopped because she...
Woke up to a beautiful sunny day, after what can only be described as 'broken' sleep. Mouth feels drier already - probably more to do with the saltwater gargles, which brings back (fond) memories of a swim across the Solent a couple of years back! Still it is a nice day so off for a 30 minute run with the dog. Legs felt stronger today after their shakeout yesterday so managed to cover a bit more distance, and put the snails back into their 'slow lane box'. Quick shower, bite to eat...
And so the first day of RT has finally arrived. Didn't sleep well last night as knocked the PEG tube during night (felt as though someone had poked me with a hot knitting needle). Wii Fit first thing saw an encouraging weight gain of 3lbs in a week. Diet starts today and kicked off with my first run since surgery on 10 Oct. It was extremely steady state, am sure a few snails overtook me on my blind side. Its amazing how fitness falls off without practice, but I kept going for 30 minutes and have...
