Hi I am 65 and have recently been diagnosed with CLL. Luckily, I don't have any symptoms and I am physically ok. All very relatives and friends have a positive outlook but emotionally I am all over the place. I feel angry, cancer is the first thing...
I'm a 61-year-old country boy, born, raised, living and working in rural Kent. I was diagnosed with CLL in June 24 and my prognosis in September showed that I have a TP53 gene mutation. I work the land for a living, currently being the estate manager...
I’ve been diagnosed with CLL for a while now and am currently well. The problem is that I don’t really deal well with the uncertainty of the situation - and I get angry about the situation which is not how I normally react. I’ve been reading some of the...
Currently I am on 'watch and wait'. It would be fair to say that I have had a couple of 'wobbles' but I can't fault the level of attention I am getting and the quality of my local surgery and hospital. Given the comparative rarity of HCL it is proving...
Hi. I live in the outskirts of Edinburgh and was diagnosed with chronic lyphocytic leukaemia 8 years ago following a blood tests for an unrelated issue. I have been on 'watch and wait' during this time and for the last 3 years have been in a virtual clinic...
Greetings, I'm living with Small Cell Lymphocytic Lymphoma, Stage Three. I was diagnosed in 2019, so I have passed the five-year survival mark, whatever that means. It is a diagnosis that my oncologist euphemistically refers to as "Indolent" and is...
Hi all I'm new to the group I was diagnosed with CLL last Christmas after a random blood test and since then I have started having a few things crop up and wondered if any body else has the same problems. Excessive sweating all day and night sweats...
Diagnosed with CLL last month,I'm so tired,emotional, confused and worried...I'm sure everything will get better.once I've got things sorted mentally, physically and financially. How did you all cope?
Hi there, I am not very good a this kind of thing but here I go anyway. My story is i had a fall in the February 2023 and by September i still had pains in my shoulder and hand. I went to the doctors who did the usual blood test and xrays. I received...
My daughter is 25, she began a journey with cancer over 2 yrs ago, it started in her appendix, she had appendix removed and chemo etc, to cut long story short, it began appearing throughout her body after this, sarcoma in legs, lungs, behind her eye,...
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