May 2022
Hi Sav1986 Improvements in diagnosing and treating cancer mean that more people are surviving and living with cancer. Your experience of and recovery from Stage IV cancer demonstrates this. Thank you so much for sharing this with our community, which our team strives to ensure is a safe space for people affected by cancer.
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May 2020
Hi, Feeling up and down is a pretty normal response at this stage I think. Everyone experiences similar feelings. No-one is every 100% certain about what is going to happen. After a while, I found that the hospital visits became a bit mundane. Yep, hook up that cannula, you don't even think twice about it after a while. I like your attitude that no feeling is final. And I think you're right. Terrible things can happen sometimes, but hopefully we'll feel better after a while or learn to deal with and accept that which isn't. It can feel awful when this happens to you when you're young. I know that I can't go back to being the way I was before my illness. That's a fact. But I've learnt to live with what has happened and what has changed as a result of surgery. I've adapted to it. This is life. It rarely goes the way we planned. I like to think that the experience of the cancer has helped turn me into a better person. If I'm not, oh well, let me live with my illusions 😉 I have a question for you actually. Do you have to stay in hospital while the immunetherapy is administered? Sorry, I know nothing about immuentherapy. How long does it take? -s
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