Effing cancer is an effing effer, frankly
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GALLARDOGUY said:
Not looked at this thread before.
I had no idea of any of this when we met, mate.
Otherwise I'd obviously have asked after your health.
Extremely glad about your good news.
Enjoy France!
Thank you Dan, that's very kind of you to be concerned. I had no idea of any of this when we met, mate.
Otherwise I'd obviously have asked after your health.
Extremely glad about your good news.
Enjoy France!
It was really good to meet you after seeing your stuff on here, it's just a pity we didn't have more time to chat on the day.
We share both a car and a rough geographical location, we'll have to meet for a pint at some point!
br d said:
Donation made. Fantastic effort on you and the teams part Andy, you should be very proud of yourself boss. Good luck to young Lucy.
I'd love some more details of the trip but I'll settle for a link to where I can purchase the DVD when it's done.
Oddly, I had been looking at Nordkapp very recently on wikipedia, I ended up reading the entire history of its peoples and politics and had vowed to go there one day myself, looks wonderful.
And in the spirit of the thread, you'd already stuck a firm two fingers up to cancer Andy, but to then take on this trip immediately after in the name of charity was really kicking it in the b
ks. Long may you piss on the foul fking filth!
Very kind and very generous Brad! You should definitely go to Nordkapp, it's a great trip. I'd love some more details of the trip but I'll settle for a link to where I can purchase the DVD when it's done.
Oddly, I had been looking at Nordkapp very recently on wikipedia, I ended up reading the entire history of its peoples and politics and had vowed to go there one day myself, looks wonderful.
And in the spirit of the thread, you'd already stuck a firm two fingers up to cancer Andy, but to then take on this trip immediately after in the name of charity was really kicking it in the b
ks. Long may you piss on the foul fking filth!
I'll PM you when the DVD is out, it's due out July time
Wifey has done her bit to say "F**k of cancer, you F**king F**ker" this weekend.
She completed the London to Brighton challenge (walk/jog/run) on Saturday in 22hrs.
Haven't done the sums yet,so don't know how much she has raised for cancer research charities, but she dedicated each 5km stretch of the 100km distance to various friends and loved ones who have been affected by the hateful f**ker. It reminded her why she was doing it, and kept her motivated.
Crossing the finish line at 6.00am yesterday, you could see her face effectively saying "take that cancer, you f**king f**k"
(I really do not know how she did it.... I would have not have even managed half that distance)
She completed the London to Brighton challenge (walk/jog/run) on Saturday in 22hrs.
Haven't done the sums yet,so don't know how much she has raised for cancer research charities, but she dedicated each 5km stretch of the 100km distance to various friends and loved ones who have been affected by the hateful f**ker. It reminded her why she was doing it, and kept her motivated.
Crossing the finish line at 6.00am yesterday, you could see her face effectively saying "take that cancer, you f**king f**k"
(I really do not know how she did it.... I would have not have even managed half that distance)
Bit of an update from me. My mate had his spinal tumour removed and the bad news is he's been diagnosed with Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. The good news is his oncologist is very positive and says that although its an "aggressive" cancer, this simply means it's fast growing and the majority of people respond very well to treatment.
My mate - I'll call him "Rick" (mainly because that's his name!) - starts his chemotherapy tomorrow, as well as a bone marrow biopsy. He's not looking forward to the treatment but accepts its the best chance he's got. Fortunately he's an intelligent guy and his wife is equally intelligent. They've resisted the urge to Google and have stuck to the mainstream websites. Rick is in the Royal Navy and they've been brilliant (as have the benevolent fund and SSAFA).
Rick and his wife were initially very despondent about the initial diagnosis, but that was from the consultant neurosurgeon who originally removed the tumour. Now they've spoken to the oncologist, the diagnosis has been refined and they're both much more positive. They've told their daughters (13 and 10) who were fairly unfazed by it all and who are both fairly resilient, intelligent characters.
I've spent the day at Rick's house today giving him a chuck up with bits of DIY he's struggling with as he's still recovering from the spinal surgery. Despite having to use a stick to walk and not yet having regained full feelings in his legs and torso he's definitely improving each time I see him. We've also given the house a good clean, sorted out a downstairs bedroom for him and got plenty of supplies in.
Rick and his family still face an uncertain future and they've all got some tough times ahead. So tonight I'd be grateful if you'd all join me in yet another "PHUCK YOU, CANCER. YOU PHUCKING PHUCK".
My mate - I'll call him "Rick" (mainly because that's his name!) - starts his chemotherapy tomorrow, as well as a bone marrow biopsy. He's not looking forward to the treatment but accepts its the best chance he's got. Fortunately he's an intelligent guy and his wife is equally intelligent. They've resisted the urge to Google and have stuck to the mainstream websites. Rick is in the Royal Navy and they've been brilliant (as have the benevolent fund and SSAFA).
Rick and his wife were initially very despondent about the initial diagnosis, but that was from the consultant neurosurgeon who originally removed the tumour. Now they've spoken to the oncologist, the diagnosis has been refined and they're both much more positive. They've told their daughters (13 and 10) who were fairly unfazed by it all and who are both fairly resilient, intelligent characters.
I've spent the day at Rick's house today giving him a chuck up with bits of DIY he's struggling with as he's still recovering from the spinal surgery. Despite having to use a stick to walk and not yet having regained full feelings in his legs and torso he's definitely improving each time I see him. We've also given the house a good clean, sorted out a downstairs bedroom for him and got plenty of supplies in.
Rick and his family still face an uncertain future and they've all got some tough times ahead. So tonight I'd be grateful if you'd all join me in yet another "PHUCK YOU, CANCER. YOU PHUCKING PHUCK".
Another update from me about My best mate, Rick.
I'd not seen Rick or his family due to some problems of my own and I needed to step back a bit for my own sanity. We've swopped a few text messages though so I've not broken all contact. I spent the day at their house yesterday and he's walking a lot better than he has been after the initial surgery on his spine. Rick doesn't need his stick when he's in the house, and I think he only takes it with him when he goes out as a bit of a confidence thing/security blanket.
Rick's had the blood tests after his first session of chemo, and his bloods are at the right level for the next session. This is slightly different to the first one, in that this injection will be going into his spinal column, to attack directly the remaining cells the surgeon couldn't remove. His other chemo went in via a cannula in his hand. So far, he's not had any sickness or other side effects (I know it's still early days) so that's helping him keep positive. He has felt tired, but he's putting that down to the general worry and stress of it all and the fact he's not sleeping so well.
Rick is worried about the "spinal" chemo, as apparently your spinal cord is effectively a "closed system" under pressure (every day's a school day), so the addition of extra fluid in the form of the chemo drugs will over pressurise the system and in all probability cause him headaches.
So Rick is still at the beginning of things. He's still not got full feeling back from the tumour pressing on his spinal cord, but the neurosurgeon said that could take up to 12 months (if it happens, this might be as good as he gets). Rick can't tell if he's getting any more sensation back, but he's slowly adapting, mentally and physically. He accepts that any progress may be so incremental he might not notice it immediately.
Yesterday was a day of pottering about, buying some willow screening, drinking brews and reading the papers on their deck, watching a bit of F1 qualifying (got to try and keep it a bit PH!) and nibbles and drinks (squash for me... That's a whole other tale).
So all in all, it's looking pretty positive for Rick and his family right now. Of course, they've all still a lot to go through, so once again:
PHUCK YOU CANCER, YOU fkING ttTY PHUCKER.
I'd not seen Rick or his family due to some problems of my own and I needed to step back a bit for my own sanity. We've swopped a few text messages though so I've not broken all contact. I spent the day at their house yesterday and he's walking a lot better than he has been after the initial surgery on his spine. Rick doesn't need his stick when he's in the house, and I think he only takes it with him when he goes out as a bit of a confidence thing/security blanket.
Rick's had the blood tests after his first session of chemo, and his bloods are at the right level for the next session. This is slightly different to the first one, in that this injection will be going into his spinal column, to attack directly the remaining cells the surgeon couldn't remove. His other chemo went in via a cannula in his hand. So far, he's not had any sickness or other side effects (I know it's still early days) so that's helping him keep positive. He has felt tired, but he's putting that down to the general worry and stress of it all and the fact he's not sleeping so well.
Rick is worried about the "spinal" chemo, as apparently your spinal cord is effectively a "closed system" under pressure (every day's a school day), so the addition of extra fluid in the form of the chemo drugs will over pressurise the system and in all probability cause him headaches.
So Rick is still at the beginning of things. He's still not got full feeling back from the tumour pressing on his spinal cord, but the neurosurgeon said that could take up to 12 months (if it happens, this might be as good as he gets). Rick can't tell if he's getting any more sensation back, but he's slowly adapting, mentally and physically. He accepts that any progress may be so incremental he might not notice it immediately.
Yesterday was a day of pottering about, buying some willow screening, drinking brews and reading the papers on their deck, watching a bit of F1 qualifying (got to try and keep it a bit PH!) and nibbles and drinks (squash for me... That's a whole other tale).
So all in all, it's looking pretty positive for Rick and his family right now. Of course, they've all still a lot to go through, so once again:
PHUCK YOU CANCER, YOU f
kING ttTY PHUCKER. My dad is in hospital now, having had half of his lungs removed, and now they have found a "mass" of lymph nodes that appear to have something wrong with them - they've been sent off for investigation. Looking like he may have to go for chemotherapy now.
It's a bugger of a disease. Earlier this year there was nothing wrong, he's lost about 5 stone, cancelled their holiday to Australia.
Nothing to say really, it's just a crsp time.
It's a bugger of a disease. Earlier this year there was nothing wrong, he's lost about 5 stone, cancelled their holiday to Australia.
Nothing to say really, it's just a crsp time.
aclivity said:
My dad is in hospital now, having had half of his lungs removed, and now they have found a "mass" of lymph nodes that appear to have something wrong with them - they've been sent off for investigation. Looking like he may have to go for chemotherapy now.
It's a bugger of a disease. Earlier this year there was nothing wrong, he's lost about 5 stone, cancelled their holiday to Australia.
Nothing to say really, it's just a crsp time.
Be strong, be there, but don't feel you can't or shouldn't seek support yourself if needed! It's just as hard for those around the sufferer, harder in some cases IMHO.It's a bugger of a disease. Earlier this year there was nothing wrong, he's lost about 5 stone, cancelled their holiday to Australia.
Nothing to say really, it's just a crsp time.
f
k YOU CANCER!Room for one more in here?
"Effing effer"... I've been using much harsher words than those recently.
In December 2012 my father had been yachting across the Atlantic, so not exactly an unhealthy man at 65.
He got a bad cough in February 2013, which got worse and was considered to be pneumonia in March.
In April they realised it was lung cancer.
But optimism overruled me from joining this thread. After all, he was due to watch me race at Brands Hatch in June, then he was to race/skipper at Cowes Week in August. We all thought he'd be treated and everything would be tickerty-boo.
The days that followed gradually forced us to face reality, as we witnessed his ability to breathe rapidly deteriorate (full time on oxygen) and the NHS couldn't keep up with his rate of decline. Meanwhile he was cheerful, joking, positive and characteristically stoic about his prospects. Between oxygenated gasps he said he was in no real pain at all, just a frustrating and terrifying daily escalation of suffocating.
He died in May, just 1 month after being diagnosed. It had been diagnosed too late for him to have any treatment.
Effing effer indeed.
We've realised that he may have had a better chance of receiving treatment (i.e. strong enough to endure chemotherapy) if a simple test had been done by his doctor in February or even back in December 2012. This test takes only a few seconds by feeling the lymph nodes on the neck; his was only checked in April, which made him realise retrospectively that he'd known about a rice-sized bump six months previously but thought nothing of it.
We're petitioning the Health Minister via CHANGE.ORG for this test to be part of a routine check for doctors to do, so that others might stand a better chance.
It's aligned with the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation and their campaign for people to get checked if they have 3-week persistent coughs.
The petition is here, please sign if you agree, then forward it to others who may benefit from it:
http://chn.ge/198NfH1
I've set up a website with further useful information about it:
http://www.flatchat.co.uk/edmund/
Mods: If there's a better place to put this, then please let me know. Many thanks.
"Effing effer"... I've been using much harsher words than those recently.
In December 2012 my father had been yachting across the Atlantic, so not exactly an unhealthy man at 65.
He got a bad cough in February 2013, which got worse and was considered to be pneumonia in March.
In April they realised it was lung cancer.
But optimism overruled me from joining this thread. After all, he was due to watch me race at Brands Hatch in June, then he was to race/skipper at Cowes Week in August. We all thought he'd be treated and everything would be tickerty-boo.
The days that followed gradually forced us to face reality, as we witnessed his ability to breathe rapidly deteriorate (full time on oxygen) and the NHS couldn't keep up with his rate of decline. Meanwhile he was cheerful, joking, positive and characteristically stoic about his prospects. Between oxygenated gasps he said he was in no real pain at all, just a frustrating and terrifying daily escalation of suffocating.
He died in May, just 1 month after being diagnosed. It had been diagnosed too late for him to have any treatment.
Effing effer indeed.
We've realised that he may have had a better chance of receiving treatment (i.e. strong enough to endure chemotherapy) if a simple test had been done by his doctor in February or even back in December 2012. This test takes only a few seconds by feeling the lymph nodes on the neck; his was only checked in April, which made him realise retrospectively that he'd known about a rice-sized bump six months previously but thought nothing of it.
We're petitioning the Health Minister via CHANGE.ORG for this test to be part of a routine check for doctors to do, so that others might stand a better chance.
It's aligned with the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation and their campaign for people to get checked if they have 3-week persistent coughs.
The petition is here, please sign if you agree, then forward it to others who may benefit from it:
http://chn.ge/198NfH1
I've set up a website with further useful information about it:
http://www.flatchat.co.uk/edmund/
Mods: If there's a better place to put this, then please let me know. Many thanks.
I'm sorry to hear this jacobyte.
Your Dad sound like a 1st class, wring every last bit out of life kind of bloke and the World is a worse place for the loss of his type.
Hearing that a chance was missed in your Dad's treatment makes me mad as it reminds me of how the doctors pissed about with my sisters treatment and we watched the weeks pass by with little being done.
We'll do this next week. Well do a biopsy next week. Well get the results next week. Grrr.
Edited for awful grammar
Your Dad sound like a 1st class, wring every last bit out of life kind of bloke and the World is a worse place for the loss of his type.
Hearing that a chance was missed in your Dad's treatment makes me mad as it reminds me of how the doctors pissed about with my sisters treatment and we watched the weeks pass by with little being done.
We'll do this next week. Well do a biopsy next week. Well get the results next week. Grrr.
Edited for awful grammar
Edited by longshot on Tuesday 25th June 18:48
Edited by longshot on Tuesday 25th June 18:49
Edited by longshot on Tuesday 25th June 18:49
What a great bunch you are.
I won't go into detail about his final days - I'm sure you know what it's like and don't want reminding. But this is so true:
I won't go into detail about his final days - I'm sure you know what it's like and don't want reminding. But this is so true:
longshot said:
We'll do this next week. Well do a biopsy next week. Well get the results next week. Grrr.
As you suggest, he was always one to explore life to the max, fitting in much more than 65 years worth. Lots of great memories, that's for certain. Jacobyte said:
Lots of great memories, that's for certain.
As great as the effort to get things changed is (and I will sign the petition as soon as I finish this post) the quote above is so so poignant and so much stronger for me! Enjoy those memories and make plenty of your own for we are all but on a passing journey
f
k you cancer! You can be nasty and horrible but you can't take away our character and our memories 
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