Sleepless night

Hope you managed some shut eye last night.Did not want to disturb you if you had gone to sleep,that's why late reply at the moment trying to keep my eyes open as I have a busy day tomorrow with hospital appointment.

Anabell

Hi my friend, I hope you don't mind but I read your profile on the glioblastoma forum, and I'm truly sorry for everything your wonderful family has to contend with, having our diagnosis is as nothing compared to seeing our loved ones having a difficult time, but in the last year my eldest daughter and our kids mum, have both defied a prognosis of 1 year, to be recently told their both cancer free,  if this had happened just 3 years ago, the outcome would likely have been very different, so there's always a little hope to cling onto, my final treatment is failing, but my family is well, I'm happy.

Eddie 

Hi Eddie I’m so sorry to hear your treatment is failing and your family have had a hard time, but it’s nice to hear they are all well. My middle son worked for cancer research Uk at a university not on the research side but he had to go to a lot of lectures and visit cancer wards and he said they have come on leaps and bounds since then. All my family have had bad hearts so I was a bit shocked in a way when they said cancer as it dose not run in the family.I looked at maggiies but unfortunately there is not one near me. I don’t mind you looking at my profile

Anabell

Sorry I seem to have replied to a message sent to somebody else that’s what tiredness dose for you

Thank you Anabell, I appreciate that my friend, CRUK are amazing, as are all those who work for them, I'm sure your very proud of your son, of all of them.

I was in healthcare for 15 years, mostly in cancer and palliative care, retiring just 5 years ago, and as you said, therapies and drug treatments have moved on enormously, with improvements in existing treatments and new ones coming up all the time.

My mum's lung cancer, was, until mine the only cancer in our side of the family, but our kids mum's family weren't so lucky, almost every female in her family had ovarian cancer, none survived till Lesley, so knowing the girls, should they get it will have, with regular testing, a very good chance of cure which is such a comfort.

I too have a bad heart, from birth, which by some miracle is still working, Amongst other things I have an aortic valve defect, an enlarged aorta 54mm-how it hasn't popped I've no idea, I have 3 kinds of Angina, ACHD and have had 7 stents in the last year, so there's always hope my friend.

I'm sorry you don't have a Maggies near you, but the relaxation course they do, which helped me so much, is available online, be positive my friend.

Eddie xx 

I hope your appointment was a positive one mate, I have my fingers crossed for you.