So, after getting Jay home yesterday in time for Christmas it now turns out I have the `dreaded lurgi` My voice has just about gone, I am sweating buckets I'm `snorting and snuffling` and bringing up all sorts of `unmentionable gunk` and it's coming out...
For all of us having Chemo through Christmas, I was wondering if you each had a spare second to share your favorite cracker jokes on the " Laughter is the best medicine" forum ?
Hello folks, This is just a little update on my journey with chemoradition treatment. Today was day 12 of 25 treatments and I have to say that I seem to be getting off light in the side effects department. I've had nothing sinister happen bar some diarrhea...
So, went with William to collect Jay from the Beatson. He's a bit tired but I think to be expected as he said he didn't sleep well last night (hates hospital beds). they pumped 2 units of blood into him he said from 6a.m. this morning and he's been sent...
Hi Everyone!! Not long back from The Beatson Cancer Centre in Glasgow. Jay took ill yesterday, and it was flu like symptoms he was having one minute really warm and the next freezing plus he was really tired, and his balance was off again and his...
Was níce, A couple of Sausages, with onions & a Jacket Pot, with lots of butter & Parsley. Was hoping to shown a Pic. but can't seem to do it here. Marianne 26
I have noticed a lot of people on here get their staging before their operation and this confuses me. I got mine after a 5 hour surgery T3NOMO....before the surgery they did think that it had not spread from the CT scan but there was no comment on official...
So oncologist has reduced my oxy dose as the Peripheral neuropathy is getting quite bad, how long after reducing dose should I notice a difference, had my new lower dose Friday but the cold sensitivity is still like super bad, I’m really struggling now...
V grateful as my GP has been fab and generally grateful for 2ww referral and the NHS in general but without sounding like a spoilt child also bloody terrified right now. I have anal pre cancer, I normally post over there, and I was given a cream for that...
`Every cloud` as they say, and I think that is what has happened to me today. Got up this morning mood was `flat as a pancake` even posted here saying how down I was. A few weird but lovely things have happened along the way though. I got a delivery this...
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