This week has been dominated by pain and its management, but it’s not all bad news. On Monday and Tuesday this week my parents in law came to visit. It’s a bit difficult to put them up here at the moment, as Gillian and I are sleeping in separate rooms so that my disturbed nights […]
When I first went to the GP complaining about difficulty swallowing, I was (mis-)diagnosed with acid reflux, and was eventually prescribed Omeprazole, a proton pump inhibitor, to try to reduce the excess acid I was supposedly producing. Actually, my stomach was causing me some pain, and the Omeprazole did help, so I suppose the tumour […]
It has been a relatively quiet week this week, with not much to report. I’ve been feeling somewhat low for most of the week — including today — and as a result haven’t done very much. At least I got the results of my two scans, even though they weren’t terribly conclusive. Fortunately it hasn’t […]
I normally like to go to the theatre in the evenings, as it makes it more of an occasion. These days, however, it’s too tiring to stay up so late; I’m normally in bed by 10pm, if I can even last that long. It seems a shame to give up on theatre trips, though, when […]
Just a quick post tonight to let you know the results of the recent bone and MRI scans. Sadly, I don’t have any pictures yet, but as soon as I get the CD I’ll post some of the key shots. But I do have a verbal report. The bone scan showed two hot spots on […]
I’ve mentioned giving myself a severe talking to recently, and I wanted to write a bit more about that. Last week I had a few days when I was feeling ill and sorry for myself. In fact, it was the worst I had felt since just before the chemotherapy started in January. I had stopped […]
I’ve had quite a boring and dull week this week, although it definitely improved as it wore on. It started badly with me experiencing a temperature spike and being taken into hospital. They found nothing too alarming, which was ecouraging, so they sent me home again with instructions to Gillian to keep a sharp eye […]
A couple of days ago I went in as usual to have my bag changed, except that between detaching the old bag and re-attaching the new bag I was scheduled to have an MRI scan. Not only that, the previous week I had had a bone scan, whose results I hoped to talk about with […]
Two of my cancer blogger friends have posted recently that things aren’t going too well for them. Joan is in the middle of an unpleasant cycle, suffering from unpleasant tinglings and loss of taste, while Jeanne has had a nasty GI infection that left her with no appetite, and eventually dehydrated her enough that she […]
I think the kindest description for this week is that it has been rough but with some good points. There was the terrible uncertainty of when, and sometimes even whether cycle 4 would ever start. Of course it did, and I went into hospital on Tuesday evening, kindly driven by Fabienne, which took a burden […]
