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Hi, 6 months ago I was a fit healthy 31 year old carpenter, I was having the most successful year at work I've had, and generally in a state of happiness and excitement at the life I was living. Then out of nowhere, I woke on a Sunday morning in extreme pain in my ...Read More
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Hi, my name is Jo and I was diagnosed with advanced stomach cancer in February this year. I have undergone 2 rounds of chemotherapy and was lucky enough to be accepted into the Keytruda trial. I am also undergoing genetic testing as I lost my brother to the same ...Read More
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Anyone have experience with this? I had a complete hysterectomy due to endometriosis (left one ovary). After biopsy of removed ovary, they found putative clear cell carcinoma (meaning possibly clear cell carcinoma) cells. They can't say for sure yes cancer or no...Read More
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Is this really happening? Yes it is. Ok then, I have cancer. It's a big one to process.In March I celebrated my 40th in style, loving life, enjoying my little family, being the best mum to my 2 little girls.In early April I started getting tummy aches everytime I a...Read More
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Recently I have been diagnosed with cancer in the right lung which has matastersized from the left kidney which was removed in 2011. In the near future I return to Canberra hospital to have scans ultrasounds and blood tests
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Hi , I have just been diagnosed with invasive and non invasive, had surgery last month and start BCG within the new 2 weeks. I had never had a headache up until now, and they are severe, I am tired . from a person that gets up early and never stops, such a shock an...Read More
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tired of waiting. I never imagined it would be like this. Had a chest xray in early june. was then sent for CT scan which confirmed primary mass in right lung and various metastasis of various sizes in left lung. since then it has been wait wait waiting. Hospital a...Read More
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In September 2016, I sat in a white hospital office, with a young asian doctor saying how sorry he was. I was 44 years old, and he had just told me that without successful treatment, he expected I would be dead in 6 months time. When I first got sick, I became a p...Read More
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Seven weeks ago I was diagnosed with Metastatic Bowel Cancer. I give the name capital letters as it feels like such a huge thing it should be a proper noun. In the last seven weeks I have had a hemi- collectomoy (removal of the ascending colon the very large adenoc...Read More
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To be honest, cancer was the furtherest from my mind. I started bleeding Vaginally towards the end of January. I was a bit concerned because I had well and truly started Menopause quite a few years ago.
Naturally, I got an appointment to see a GP (my regular one ha...Read More
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