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“Getting a cancer diagnosis is extremely stressful, and that brings a whole load of emotions, and lack of sleep certainly does not help. I think many of us have periods of insomnia. I experienced a long period of not sleeping. I could go off to sleep quite quickly, but after an hour I would find myself wide awake again, and would spend the rest of the night getting frustrated because I couldn't sleep."
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Morning Gilly, I was lucky to fall asleep straight after posting Chloe, hence the late reply and, PS as I'm on 12 forums, I switched off my vibration/jingle alerts to posts, just getting a pop up so everyone can post me anytime without waking me up.
Wow what you wrote about the radiographers, could have been written by me, they're just an amazing bunch of people.
Having RT for prostate cancer you have to have it with a full bladder, the problem with PCa is it causes urinary incontinence, so in the early days it could take up to 4 times to get through treatment but there was never anything other than 100% support and understanding, even when I went to have a catheter in one of the team came with me and stayed with me all the time, unfortunately as for some reason nobody's ever been able to explain as soon as I started to pee with the catheter in, I'd pop the balloon lol, it ended up taking 36 trips to the EBRT room but we never missed a day, absolute angels everyone.
We met a lovely couple from Chesterfield there, and hubby was having a tough time of it, he was always hungry but couldn't keep anything down no matter what they tried, and I remembered from my time in healthcare, years ago someone going through a similar experience, and found a well known brand of cola helped, so mentioned it to them, and when I saw them the following day the difference was amazing, we found out we all loved quizzes, so had one at every RT session with most of the other patients joining us, strangely happy days and we're still friends, we meet up whenever we can.
Sorry to hear you've not managed a getaway since RT my friend, when your up for them, they will be extra special for you both, do you have a place in mind?, I'm sure you have 100s, we're doing as many as we can while we can, PS the Yorkshire wildlife parks lovely and only 2 minutes from our place
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No appointments today so it's art group, friends, Yorkshire day at the hospice, then off to see the newest member of the family a 6lb little sweetheart called Chloe.
love Eddie and Sheila xx
Hey Steve-I like to think of myself as a honorary Yorkshire person, married to one that’s born and bred Yorkshire and living just over the border. All my cancer treatment and surgeries were done in Sheffield so I’m counting all of those things, even though I haven’t lost my Scottish accent yet!
Sarah xx
Morning Gill-that’s a good result getting someone to come to the house. How do they expect someone to speak on the phone when they can’t speak?
I got a little bit further forward with my pip too-got a text yesterday to say they received all my paperwork and to expect a reply within 8 weeks which is better than the 15 weeks I was told before.
Sarah xx
I won’t Steve! I’m from the north of Scotland and I’m proud of my Scottish lilt!
Sarah xx
I love the Geordie accent! My hopefully soon to be son in Law is from Durham, but I sometimes find he speaks too quickly for me to understand everything!
Sarah xx
