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Hi all!! So, my husband is back in hospital due to losing six kg in a week......he can't keep food down and he has chronic diarrhea. Yesterday he went out for a walk around the hospital and had a fall (he's 39 and not a falls risk usually).... Anyway, he took skin off everywhere including his face. He has no idea how it happened....

BC: Early in 2012, I had recently moved to America from Australia to be with my new husband. I was trying to fit in and learn new ways (do you know light switches flip up to go ON in the US?). I established new connections and made appointments with a GP and dentist. It was a couple of months before I attended the routine mammogram my GP suggested. I was contacted almost immediately for another mammogram, then an ultrasound and then a needle biospsy. Within a week I knew I had the dreaded breast cancer.

Excruciating pain - the nausea came later! It was a pain I had met before, ten years ago. It came in waves that at the peak had me in a foetal position gripping onto the bed head. It was not a friendly pain. It was an enemy that had to be beaten and controlled and mind games were not going to do it.

The last few wks have been tough; I've been feeling quite down, even depressed, very angry and finding myself getting very frustrated at myself and others. Seems my memory and cognitive abilities have gone off on a lovely holiday together and have no intention of coming back.

Hi, I recently have been diagnosed with Melanoma and have since had one round of surgery including sentinal lymph node biopsies, I have been told that one of the nodes was positive for the melanoma cells and so I am encouraged to go in for a second round of surgery to remove more nodes. Has anyone gone through this? I'm just interested to know what sort of recovery to expect ie length of time before I'm able to return back to normal life? Thanks, Monners

Had my forth session on Wednesday. No. 3 the doctor dropped off the blarmison or what ever it's called. The B of the ABVD (for Hodgkins lymphoma). This was due to my lung function test, I'm still stuffed up and healing from the lung surgery. This last treatment I got a minor cold, runny nose and mild sore throat which thankfully didn't progress into anything more. My bloods came back borderline on low. Neutrophils were 1.5, hb was 111, I started with 136 and my platelets have always even higher than normal at around 478. This time they were 'normal' for the first time at 346.