Hello everyone, here I am back home from my 6 month cystoscopy which was in fact after 9 months because of NHS overload. Feeling jubilant from getting another all clear!
Rather than moving me on to annual cystoscopies, doc chose to call me back again after 6 months, about which I have no complaints as I had 5 reoccurrences in the first 4 years. It is now 7 years (and 27 doses of BCG) since my first diagnosis, and there was a time when I thought I would never get to see a cancer-free bladder on the screen. Thanks to my wonderful Cancer Nurse Specialist, thanks to the Urology Department of North Devon District Hospital and huge thanks to our brilliant NHS.
Expresso Martini cocktails tonight and a bottle of fizz with my daughter! Hope this result can help others out there, maybe in the early days of their bladder cancer, to believe there is hope.
Love to all Hx
Fantastic news Herothedog, really really happy for you and yes it does give all us Bcg people hope. Great to celebrate too, wonderful xxx
Thanks everyone for really kind messages. Cocktail and champers slipped down nicely on Friday evening, truth be told I don't quite remember going up to bed, but I woke up safely on Saturday morning and miraculously not even the slightest hang-over! Now back to sensible living, daily litres of lemon barley (thanks to Denby's old doctor) and the sun is out. Good to be alive! Love to al Hx
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