Blogs - Page 143

Today i visited the hearing doctor to see if the schwannomas on my 8th cranial nerve were effecting my hearing yet. Turns out I have perfect hearing at the moment! Yay! He gave me and my mum a lot of information about what's going on. But it seems like I'm the only one who hears the doctors correctly - my mum and dad act and talk like this is nothing. My friends don't seem to understand either. The disease I have hits 1 in every 40'000 people. I feel so alone.

Two days ago I needed to get the chemo docs to fill in another medical report for centrelink. From this report it was cleary stated stage 4 lung cancer patients on average live less than 2 years...... I really don't believe this will be the case for me but since reading this I cannot shake this horrible feeling. I feel numb like I'm hearing it for the first time but this news is not new. Sometimes my treating team look at.me as though I am naive.......I'm not that I AM JUST NOT GIVING UP. "just when u think u cannot go any further u pick yourself up and you do" unknown.

Hi Everyone My thoughts are with you at this time, but I must ask you and tell you about my best friend Anita who is only 44 years of age.... She was diagnosed on 20th June, they found a 2.5cm lump in her left breast and due to this on the 10t July she underwent surgery to have both breasts removed and shortly she will be starting extreme Chemo. Since being told this news, I am still in total shock and have not had a propers night sleep so I cannot imagine the emotions she is feeling....

Hi everyone, it's been a while for me since I've posted. All has been going well kidney cancer contained however in march lymph nodes were enlarged, biopsy showed sarcoid however surgeon called last thursday to say he believes the cancer is on the move as biopsy's are similar in cells.....however no definite result of malignancies.

Mondayis the day I finally start radiotherapy and chemotherapy. seems to be a strange thing to want to happen but I was beginning to think I would remain forever in the limbo land of diagnoses scans and appointments . In the past two months or so each time a doctor or surgeon told me some thing new and seemingly worse my reaction was of a massive shock. It seems amazing how quickly one accepts this and tries to move on. Im finding real comfort in reading the stories in cancer connections. What a brave lot !!!

Five years ago my husband of 30 years passed away from pancreatic cancer. I have three children, at the time my eldest was at university and my youngest was just 14 years old. My husband was never diagnosed with cancer until after his death. We managed to cope through the two years he was ill and have managed to cope in the following five years since his death. I now find that my new partner, who had been a friend since before I was married, now has pancreatic cancer. How can I cope with this all over again!!! What have I done to deserve this?