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Its been a long time since the previous round in the battle between Larry from Shitesville and Brooksie. After the previous encounter Brooksie decided to stick with his plans of a holiday to celebrate his silver wedding and postpone the next fight with Larry. Well that holiday is now a wonderful memory and the next round took place on the 4th October when Larry was cut out, however the wee b******d was down but not out. Seven days after the fight, Brooksies bowels had still not moved. The gastric...
I was diagnosed with invasive ductal, stage 3, oestrogen receptor positive ER+, breast cancer in my left breast in January 2012. As it had affected my lymph nodes too, my treatment plan has been, 6 x chemo, subcutaneous mastectomy and lymph node clearance, followed by 25 x radio therapy sessions and 5 years hormone therapy, currently Tamoxifen.
My original surgeon was offering a full mastectomy. For me, apart from the fact I could die way before I was was supposed to, it was the most devastating...
yesterday my oldest took part in local half marathon and we used it as family day out was lovely to spend quality time with them all and some great memories for the future we had breakfast after they had set off back to top of town to see them finnish then back down for dinner after that left them all watching football while i came home took pain meds and naped was lovely day and made me feel so proud of the men they are am in co cods fog at moment brain not working right they do it every time but...
My mum is diagnosed with cancer in her lungs & groin, that was two years ago. She has been treated by Christies but has now been told that there is nothing more they can do for her.
Since being discharged from the hospital she has had little or no contact from services, including Macmillan nurses. In the past she has been given equipment from social services & the hospital to help her around the home. She has had a telephone call from the Macmillan nurse but has never seen her (Maybe once...
Hi All,
My lovely husband died on Wednesday. I miss him so much. I am finding it hard to cope. I was with him and I was so blessed to be there holding his hand. I held his hand for over two hours after he went. It was so hard to let go.
Had the common Symptoms of Lymphoma since the end of July... Fatigue, weight loss, night sweats and numerous lymph nodes in my neck raised and growing rapidly in size so that they are now very noticeable.
I went to the doctors when I first noticed them and he told me it was most certainly an infection and that they will decrease in size in about a week or so.
After two/three weeks (I cant remember exactly) I went back as they hadnt decreased in size at they had infact increased a lot.
He then...
Well here we are Dad is looking well even though he has no hair now he looks younger somehow.mum is recovering from her operation and they have both been going to various oncologist appointments.Mum is going back on chemo and they decided why not both go,get 4 sessions done then hopefully the good week in between they will feel well.They are having an early xmas do the first week in dec as if its cancelled it has not spoiled anyones xmas with 26 of us it will be fun.Strangely everyone is just getting...
well today have been less scared last night was total wreck not sure why the numb feeling had worn off and panic set in then was doughting what i thought doc said to me bet that quite normal they must be wrong i must have heard wrong i feel to well it be sick etc. today i more in wait and see well got mini buss booked to take us from local hospital to doncaster but as for coming back have no idea steve says we can always stop in hotel if worse comes to worse bless him trying to get day off to come...
All started about March time with dad not feeling well. Now got to the stage of finding out end of Aug that he has terminal Pancreatic cancer, 4weeks ago he decided not to have chemo as didnt want the extra side affects. So were told that the time he had left was around 3-6months or up to 10. Hes just had a week in hospital because they think hes had an internal bleed. Not knowing who, what or where I am at the mo. Sooooooo not looking 4ward to whats ahead :(
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