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My other half has had another biopsy and needs an MRI scan of his liver. Results are due on Thursday
14th March. We want to get on with it now, fed up of waiting :(
Churchill Hospital clinic done and home again. Registrar took my history and examined me for lumps in neck, groin and abdomen = none found. I did see the great man himself as he walked past in the corridor but he didn't run the session himself.
Follow-ups will be split between them and Stoke Mandeville Plastics clinic so I’ll be seen every 3 months and they will each have a six-monthly review.
I’m not suitable for the only current drug trail which requires lymph nodes to have been...
Just a quick update for today, not much more to update really. Mum's been moved back to Ward 43 from Step down which means she's on a "normal" neuro ward again, back where she started. That's a real result. We can expect her to be in for perhaps a couple of weeks, but a much faster than expected return, so fantastic news.
One thing I'm not sure if I made a note of before, but made me laugh today when I was recounting it to our friend Geoff.
On the Friday before surgery...
So I had my PET Scan 2 days ago on my 45th birthday. I can't deny it was the worst birthday I've ever had plus I've got a cold. I'm thoroughly miserable it has to be said.
I have read into every detail that has happened subsequently and can only think the worst. Having had the scan I was told to get dressed and then 'we'd have a look at the photos'. I then came out and was immediately told I could go - I said 'and the results?' - 'they will go to you doctor' accompanied...
I came back home on Tuesday evening after seeing mum was settled on the ward. Andy was leaving for Canada on Wednesday morning so I wanted to see him.
We opened a bottle of champagne to celebrate the success of the surgery and had a takeaway!
Took Andy to the train station on Wednesday morning and felt very emotional. I think that the tiredness is really catching up with me now. I went home and spent the day sorting the office out - lots of backlog.
Phoned the hospital and was told she was in...
Went back to the hospital on Tuesday 5th March for afternoon visiting. Thankfully, the Critical Care ward has afternoon visiting hours during the week, unlike the neuro ward she was on before, so we can get in to see her.
She was much brighter, giving the nurses hell - where's afternoon tea?? She did take one of them to one side though to tell her how safe and comfortable she felt and how grateful she was. All the canulas have been removed except one, so she looks less like a pin cushion now and...
Friday 15 Feb 2013, I got the call that I most dread: my brother telling me my mum had been taken into hospital and a scan showed a lump on her brain.
Friday 22 Feb 2013, the next dreaded call: scans showed that the lump was a tumour, probably malignant, but not sure what level. Its been caught early and they will operate to remove it, analyse it and then agree the best coruse of treatment: radiotherapy, chemo, etc....surgery scheduled for Wed 27 Feb.
Wednesday 27 Feb 2013: d-day! Waited and...
I was really glad when 2012 ended. It was a proper disastrous 12 months. It began with me making a painful decision of filing for a divorce after 7 years of unsuccessfully trying to work on my marriage. My husband was not interested in any form of therapy and was becoming increasingly aggressive which was truly bad for the kids. So, I finally said 'enough is enough' - he promised he'd make the divorce process hell..... I was worried, but little did I know that a few months later that would be one...
Stitches were removed this morning, only one of the six of them caused a serious involuntary yelp and it does all feel less tense down there. Only six non-dissolving stitches for what must be seven or eight inches of scar around the moved flap plus a 3 or 4 inch scar on my thigh where it was taken. I'm impressed, and it all looks very tidy if a bit strange. There is a tiny bit of split skin (like you get at the corner of your mouth sometimes with dry lips) but I plan to dab it with antiseptic...
It was my Dad's Birthday yesterday - he was 66!! I found it a
weird day. I HUGELY regret not taking the time off work to spend the whole day
with him...I didn't purely because I know there will come a time where I will
need that time off from work. We went straight round there after work..poor
Marc...I bit his head off because he couldn't leave work early and I just
wanted to get to Dad ASAP...I just felt emotional and sad...it hit me that this
could be Dad's last birthday :(...
