Blogs - Page 162

Just a reminder that May is the month that bowel screening test kits are available in AU. The kits are available from most chemists for $8. It takes 3 days to do the test and the kits have to be back by June 14. I have no history of BC but I am doing it. I watched my wife of 40 yrs die from this good for nothing disease a couple of days before last Christmas, she also had no family history, and when it was found it had already set up inoperable lesions in her liver.

Today was the last of the" ologists" to see,now the cards have been laid on the table and the path has been made.Choice do I accept this path or hide in the corner and await the inevitable.28 sessions of radiotherapy along with 28 days of tablet chemo twice a day for 28 days,this will be with the intent to shrink this tumour that very pleasantly has decided to sit itself in the rectal passage[alias bowel cancer].At the end of these 28 days will meet with the colorectal surgeon who has informed me that everything has to go during surgery outcome a new friend who I shall name Fred for now aka co

What can I say!!! Rex had an MRI on his chest and abdomen yesterday and the results are so disappointing and like a kick in the heart after being told by his medical oncologist that the 1st line of treatment has failed.

My partner gets to stay on the trial for another 4 weeks until the next MRI. The scan from Monday looks promising although they spot something around 7mm in his front left temporal lobe which is a bit further away from the main tumour area. It's not conclusive what it is as the main area looks better and the swelling is better which means the drug works but then why there is this new little stranger. Let's hope it's nothing but my gut feeling says there is no such a thing as 'nothing' in this fight.

My husband had to have an MRI on his lungs and upper abdomen this morning to find out if his lung cancer has spread in that region. Anyway!! he insisted on walking into the lift and up to the xray dept wanting and needing to be independant,he refused to use a walker or a stick,I was by his side at the ready to support him if needed. I know he looks very thin,frail and shuffles along but I didn't expect the nasty comment that was aimed at me by another patient in the waiting room.

Five and a half weeks of radiotherapy and chemo unsure of how the chemo works as I dont meet with the chemo oncologist until Friday.Have never had a tatoo before always hoped my first one would be when my beloved western bulldogs won a premiership not to be had to have tatoos yesterday as markers for the radio oh well I can still look forward.Does anyone know how the chemo and radio work together,what the side effects may be and ways to get around them.I am following all of everyones great advice and am so glad that this wonderful community is here as the support has been endless and priceless