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Can’t say I’m terribly impressed with the nurses at the hospital clinic;
I've been pondering over a few things lately. To sum up, I feel like I've lost my mojo since mum's diagnosis, safe to say all of us have to some extent.
I am fine, and feel like I am coping much better, but this big shadow hanging over us all does bring me down sometimes. I almost feel guilty for going out and having fun, and am on the edge of tears some days. Andy took me to the pub last night and we drifted into a discussion about the current situation and how we were all feeling,...
Hi all . I often joke about my cancer and my mortality find it funny have a good laugh then find I've I've offended a perfectly healthy person. I think that is funny in itself . I've always been that way though and I can't change now I've got terminal lung cancer with various mets around my body. I just can't bite my tongue sometimes especially at work when people have had time off for headaches a cold where they force a sneeze about once at work or they loudly blow their nose to show just how ill...
Just coming to the end of a 23 day "rest period" and start back on chemo tablets on Good Friday - so I will be asleep for most of Easter. I will have a mri scan this Thursday to see how things are going. Looking forwards to hearing the result - which hopefully will be positive. If not, I will just have to deal with it. You can be a control freak, but there are things you can not control.
My husband is dying - how cold that sounds... soon I will be a widow and with a 92 year old mother who is not healthy, I may lose my husband and mother in a year..and there is the 'I' word because it is not just about how I feel, but also how my children feel. One of them is almost hysterical and has taken time off work to be with my husband and I, the other two are quieter but just as deeply affected about losing their father. The trouble is they cannot understand the very traumatic outpourings...
Seven weeks ago dad was admitted to hospital with what we thought was a stroke. By the Monday we were told he has lung cancer that had spread to his brain. The following Wednesday mam was admitted to hospital after we couldn't wake her after having 15 hours sleep. She was diagnosed with a chest infection and spent the next two weeks in hospital.
Think that week was the worst week of my life, not only did they ask us if we wanted mam resuscitated if anything happened but we also learned that...
I am struggling, I feel like driving off a bridge. I lost my dad 6 months ago after 3 months of cancer. Mum and dad had just celebrated 50 yearsmarried. They were always together and now my mum expects my sister and eye to fill the gap. She is devastated and struggling to the point where she hates being at home.
I work 3 days and of the 4 days off I spend 3 with her, it was the 4 days but I put my foot down as my kids and husband need me to, there was an awful row about it. Mum expects that I fill...
Well what a March - Ian medically evacuated from Tanzania with renal colic and stones, partially treated in the NHS and completed in the private sector, the upside, it confirmed that my reversal will be 'done' on April, also at the private hospital. What a damning reflection - I am sooo sorry for those people who endure the 'standard' NHS. My experience locally is when the chips are down the NHS is superb, hard to beat and worthy of plaudits all round, BUT even then I have seen from this site, really...
Hi All
I have been reading a lot about the benefits of fasting during chemotherapy. Particularly the studies being carried out by Dr. Valter Longo in America.
My Mum has had a tumour removed from her colon and is starting chemotherapy in 6 days time. She will be having 5FU plus oxaliplatin via a PICC every 14 days for 6 months (12 treatments). It will be administered over a 48hr period.
The information that I have gathered from several sources suggests 72hrs fast before chemotherapy and 24hrs...
