Effing cancer is an effing effer, frankly

[Lost soul]

Granville said:

never rains until it pours

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Bloody cancer. It seems that often the light at the end of the tunnel is some bugger with a torch bringing more bad news.

[Lost soul]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Bloody cancer. It seems that often the light at the end of the tunnel is some bugger with a torch bringing more bad news.

Certainly was for me , 14 months of 8 weekly checks all telling me I am going great guns then boom this pile of crap

[ali_kat]

Lost soul said:

S0 that did not go well , back in a world of pain again I am afraid

having a massive blast of radio therapy today to try to shrink it followed by 6 cycles of chemo starting next Friday

[aclivity]

It's a year today since my dad died.

I'm feeling sad, but I can't tell anyone (partly because they won't see why I still feel sad, partly because I may end up crying).

I think the reason I am sad is that it all felt so "wrong" in the days when he was ill - it felt like he was going to get better ... but he didn't.

Don't know what to say really, I really hate the whole cancer scenario, the whole illness, the whole leaving us empty and things I wanted to say but can't.

[Granville]

Are you able to visit his graveside and sit and have a chat? Just because he isn't here doesn't mean he isn't still with you in spirit.

If you're unable to talk to family, how about a good friend? Maybe visit a favourite place your Dad loved and just get everything off your chest to someone.

And I'm sure your family are feeling exactly the same, maybe they're not showing it because they fear upsetting you?

[starnberg]

Aclivity - find someone to talk to, it can only help. Crying may well be the very thing you need to do.

[Lost soul]

So back in chemo , although today they declined to give it as my white cells were so down , had a blood transfusion yesterday on red cells

try again next week I guess

[Biggles111]

Lost soul said:

So back in chemo , although today they declined to give it as my white cells were so down , had a blood transfusion yesterday on red cells

try again next week I guess

Let us know how it goes, here's to better luck on your counts this week. I was always desperate to get started on each chemo cycle and really p*ssed off if I could not, hang in there.

Edited by Biggles111 on Sunday 22 March 09:29

[Lost soul]

Biggles111 said:

Lost soul said:

So back in chemo , although today they declined to give it as my white cells were so down , had a blood transfusion yesterday on red cells

try again next week I guess

Let us know how it goes, here's to better luck on your counts this week. I was always desperate to get started on each chemo cycle and really p*ssed off if I could not, hang in there.

Edited by Biggles111 on Sunday 22 March 09:29

Thanks Biggles , yes I just want to keep hitting it and a week out is really bugging me

[Pugsey]

Lost soul said:

Biggles111 said:

Lost soul said:

So back in chemo , although today they declined to give it as my white cells were so down , had a blood transfusion yesterday on red cells

try again next week I guess

Let us know how it goes, here's to better luck on your counts this week. I was always desperate to get started on each chemo cycle and really p*ssed off if I could not, hang in there.

Edited by Biggles111 on Sunday 22 March 09:29

Thanks Biggles , yes I just want to keep hitting it and a week out is really bugging me

Good attitude mate. And good luck. Smash the bxgger. While I was lying on the linear accelerator I imagined the cancer as a vile looking beast, fighting back and the radiotherapy gradually damaging it more and more until on the last day of treatment (7.5 weeks 5 days a week) it was completely crushed. Another year on hormone therapy which will be suppressing any remaining nasty's then when I come off them we'll really know if it's gone - there was a tiny bit in my spine which may still be lurking - but my view is that I've beaten the bxstxrd. C'mon cancer, you're just not hard enough!!!

Mental attitude counts for A LOT.

[Lost soul]

So , I scored 46 last Friday up from 40 when they declined to give it the Friday before , they were umming and arring but I put my foot down as it was the big chemo day where they give me two types of chemo and send me home with a syringe pump that I carry around until Tuesday , they in the end agreed to drop the dose a little on the chemo that is most damaging to the white cells

[Lost soul]

Pugsey said:

Good attitude mate. And good luck. Smash the bxgger. While I was lying on the linear accelerator I imagined the cancer as a vile looking beast, fighting back and the radiotherapy gradually damaging it more and more until on the last day of treatment (7.5 weeks 5 days a week) it was completely crushed. Another year on hormone therapy which will be suppressing any remaining nasty's then when I come off them we'll really know if it's gone - there was a tiny bit in my spine which may still be lurking - but my view is that I've beaten the bxstxrd. C'mon cancer, you're just not hard enough!!!

Mental attitude counts for A LOT.

Thanks Pugsey you know that's exactly how I picture it in my mind

[Pugsey]

Lost soul said:

Pugsey said:

Good attitude mate. And good luck. Smash the bxgger. While I was lying on the linear accelerator I imagined the cancer as a vile looking beast, fighting back and the radiotherapy gradually damaging it more and more until on the last day of treatment (7.5 weeks 5 days a week) it was completely crushed. Another year on hormone therapy which will be suppressing any remaining nasty's then when I come off them we'll really know if it's gone - there was a tiny bit in my spine which may still be lurking - but my view is that I've beaten the bxstxrd. C'mon cancer, you're just not hard enough!!!

Mental attitude counts for A LOT.

Thanks Pugsey you know that's exactly how I picture it in my mind

Cheers Pal. Every day I have a positive day I feel it's one for everyone else battling out there. So, if I have a down day I feel I'm letting the 'team' down. So I try not to do down days. We fight together in a different ways. We're not alone.

G/L to matey - and to everyone.

[Du1point8]

This fker just does not go away.

Was needing to look after friend last night as he had just got the news that someone close to him in the army has developed a brain tumour, the person has been give 1 years leave on full pay from his banking job to get over this, but the outlook is a bit bleak, he got the info off a doctor friend (mutual to both of them), so when he is not divulging the info, something is up.

The person has survived bullets in most major war zones, been good enough to get to Captain status, retired 6 years ago and this hits, the person is only just 40, cancer is a bh I tell you.

[Biggles111]

Du1point8 said:

This fker just does not go away.

Was needing to look after friend last night as he had just got the news that someone close to him in the army has developed a brain tumour, the person has been give 1 years leave on full pay from his banking job to get over this, but the outlook is a bit bleak, he got the info off a doctor friend (mutual to both of them), so when he is not divulging the info, something is up.

The person has survived bullets in most major war zones, been good enough to get to Captain status, retired 6 years ago and this hits, the person is only just 40, cancer is a bh I tell you.

Yes, it gives a bum deal. It does not care if you are rich, poor, young, old, I think in our society we get used to thinking we can avoid problems by doing x. This helps for some things, others are like the proverbial piano dropping out of the sky. I was diagnosed last year at 40, after having most of my working life in trouble spots in Africa and the Middle East. It just shows - don't spend life worrying about things, get on with living.

I am sure everyone concerned is struggling to come to terms with this, it takes months. The prognosis may not be that bad, everyone is different. If he has been in the army he will have the grit he needs to deal with this and I am sure will do it well. It is often hardest for those around the patient, so any support you can give will be great.

[Lost soul]

Biggles111 said:

Yes, it gives a bum deal.

I work in a fairly small company about 20 people , and there are 3 of us

1, Brain tumour 37 years old / remission

2, Non hodgkins Lymphoma 23 years / remission

3 Me 57 Neck-tonsil / now spine

It Is every where no respecter of age health or life style

[ReaderScars]

This might be of interest to some, or possibly a help to others.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/wellbeing/hea...

Edited to add, the subheadline for the article reads:

"The professor who 'cured' his cancer with a cocktail of everyday pills and 20 years on remains disease-free"

"Ben Williams' aggressive brain tumour was treated with conventional therapies - and with a mix of common drugs, including those for acne, insomnia and high blood pressure, as revealed in a new documentary. Could this approach work for others?"

With relation to the above, this site looks into additional drugs and therapies which they state:

"The therapies listed below either claim to cure cancer or prolong survival or have been demonstrated to do so."

http://www.anticancerfund.org/therapies/find-a-the...

http://www.anticancerfund.org/

Edited by ReaderScars on Friday 24th April 15:09

[Mrs Muttleysnoop]

What really p's me off about the lovely cancer is that the arses of this world never get diagnosed with it.

Good luck to everyone having to deal with it.

[Morningside]

Mrs Muttleysnoop said:

What really p's me off about the lovely cancer is that the arses of this world never get diagnosed with it.

Good luck to everyone having to deal with it.

You are right there.