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Hi, My dad was diagnosed with glioblastoma stage 4 in his frontal lobe on May 2nd after what we thought was a mental health episode. He had a large quantity of this removed (more than they initially thought possible) on the 18th May. He remains...
Hello My husband was diagnosed last june after complaining of wax in his ears and started to feel generally unwell, his comprehension getting poor, after a few weeks of being given almond oil from the gp he was so unwell on a bank holiday Monday we...
How I miss our old life- we'd have just returned from skiing and would have been looking forward to his 70th birthday in sunny Turkey. Sadly both had to be cancelled. I thought he wasn't right late in 2021 and other people started to notice he wasn...
Hi My heart is breaking. My mum was diagnosed with a Gbm4 in august 2014. She has been so strong and positive throughout but she lost my Nan last October around the same time she found out her tumour was growing again. Mum has gone done rapidly since...
Hi, It is my mum that has glioblastoma and has been fighting it for 5 and half years now, which is phenomenal considering how awful this cancer is, but she's been diagnosed with another tumour and she's going for chemo again, but she's frail now from...
So it's been 10 weeks since my mum got diagnosed with stage 4 glioblastoma, she had surgery which caused her to have a stroke she now left with no movement down her right side and lost most of her speech, Friday she lost her vision so they did a scan...
Hi all Im looking for a consultant who provides 2nd rounds of radiotherapy with Avastin preferably in the North of England. Also if anyone had gone through this treatment how are you ? The NHS cant offer me anymore treatments so looking to go private...
Hi. My husband has just received a diagnosis of glioblastoma and is due to start Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy in a fortnight. I am going silently to pieces. He has had surgery but has just started getting confused again. I am terrified. I just...
Hi many of you in this group will have seen my posts and updates on other posts. I thought I'd share the details of how we spent this week as inspiration for other GBM4 folks. My husband is and always will be a fitness freak. He's also 3 months beyond...
Hi everyone, Just looking for some advice please. Dad is 73 and was diagnosed with GBM last June. He had 95% of the tumour removed in July and had 3 weeks of radiotherapy and chemo in August. Since then he has had chemo every 28 days and starts his...
