Vespa wrote: ↑Thu Apr 23, 2020 11:04 am
lambrini wrote: ↑Thu Apr 23, 2020 10:53 am
How are you, Vespa?
I'm alright today, I had a litre of chemo pumped into me a week ago and it's powerful stuff. I lost 2kg in two days. I think it's almost out of my system as the numbness in my fingers has gone and I'm taking the other chemo tablets for nine more days then I get a week off.
My only concern is that the big operation to cut Piers (I named my cancer) out of me gets delayed. Although my chemo ends June/July and they give you a month to recover so hopefully operations will be back online.
It'd freak me out to know I had this tumour growing inside me after months of taking drugs to shrink it.
Thanks for asking.
Fucking hell, sorry to read all of this pal, best of luck to you.
It runs in my wife’s family unfortunately. Her Grandma died in 2016, she had it but it wasn’t what killed her. She’d had several heart attacks and strokes so was fucked anyway. Then last year her uncle died of it, he’d not paid heed to any of the warning signs unfortunately. Also meant I had to go to frigging Aberdeen for the funeral so he really screwed me there
On the flip side, her mum was alerted by the above and went to get checked out. She was diagnosed and had immediate treatment and is now thankfully all clear. So at least some good came out of the Uncle’s illness.
One thing I hadn’t considered was the mental health aspect of it. She has suffered from stress-related problems brought on, I would imagine, by the trauma of what she went through along with the residual guilt that she is still here and her brother isn’t. Fortunately she had access to good counselling provided by the hospital. But as someone who hasn’t been through it myself, I’d assumed you’d be over the moon and just get on with your life. I’d never considered the potential for post-traumatic stress and also the general panic any time you notice anything slightly different with your physiology.
So without wanting to come across as patronising in any way (as you’re eminently more qualified to talk about this than me), please remember to take care of your mental health during, and after, your treatment.