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Hi Steviea34,

I'm very sorry to read about the tough time you are going through.

I hope another Cancer Chat user who has been in a similar situation, will be along soon to chat.

 
Or, if you are based in the UK, you can call our specialist nurses on: 0808 800 4040 Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.

They will be happy to chat about what you are going through and offer advice and support.

Best wishes

Renata

Cancer Chat Moderator

Hi Steve

So sorry to hear your have liver cancer and hope the shock of diagnosis will ease a little soon.  It's like being punched at first and feels so unreal.

I hope that you'll soon know what your treatment plan will be so you can move forward and know what will be happening.  It somehow often gets easier when you start doing something about your illness and take away that awful helpless feeling.

If you have taken the advice given to you and contacted the nurses, I hope they were able to help and answer some of your questions.

Let me know how you get on and my best wishes to you and your girlfriend.

Love

Carrie

Hi Steve

I'm so sorry you have had such bad news - it's one of the two things cancer sufferers dread to hear.  I don't know anything about the drug you mention but hopefully someone will come along who is having this treatment and can give you some insight.  It's probably worth giving it a try unless it has very adverse effects for you but no doubt your medical team will be monitoring all this.

What a pity you had to go to your appointment alone.  I remember all too clearly how I felt after some of my consultations when I just couldn't get my head around all that was going on - you feel as if you're living on another planet amongst aliens.  I think watching other people just getting on with life when you feel so.....(how can you describe the feeling) is such a surreal thing to cope with.

No you're not being especially morbid but are starting to understand your situation and there's nothing morbid in that.  People often look at me a bit strangely if I talk about death and don't understand that for cancer sufferes it's a distinct possibility, not something vague in the future.  Many of us wonder what will be in store for us and we are all entitled to our own beliefs and the comfort we gain from them.  Please, if you feel lonely, get back to me.  There is no reason to feel alone as many of here are in the same boat as you and the rest of us are trying to push to the back of our minds that one day we may be.

I hope your girlfriend is managing to cope with your news and that you are taking care of each other.

Love

Carrie

Hey,

How are you doing?  Can't comment on the drug you're talking about but i was wondering if your treatment has started and how you're finding it?  Wouldn't it be nice if everyone who "chatted" on this site lived a bit closer together, what a humdinger of a party we could have.

Hope you're keeping well, keep in touch

S x - here have an extra one since no-one smiled at you on the bus (bloody miserable buggers) xxxxx

Hey Babes,

good job you've not put your head in that oven then, would take a while.....maybe you need to put an extra shilling in the meter to get it to work (now I know you are ages with me and I know you will remember gas meters and shillings).

Glad to hear you've still got a sense of humour, I think it helps, it did with me anyway.

Now life after death, and this is only my view...... do you not think that this might be "hell" here and when we go we go to a better place, lets face it do you know of anyone who's come back??  And i don't think we come back as dogs/cats/worms etc... now I should know this from church but maybe my mind drifted a wee bit but does it not go along the lines of "he who believes in me shall have eternal life yada yada yada" - my minister did not say yada yada yada just incase you're wondering. I'm not suggesting you should rush off to join the church, but maybe keep an open mind.

And can I say something else without you being offended?  Now I could leave here and get squished by a bus tonight and I've made no preparation, no-one is going to hold you to a day but I hope you don't sit and look at a calendar counting down the days, does it not ease a different kind of burden knowing you have to plan?  Sorry, but that's how my mind works, my family call me controlfreaksoozy which is a bit unkind of them.

Re Jack - not heard from him, although I send private messages, I hope I've not driven him to drink!!  Have you heard from Pat (Cougar69), not heard from her either.  What a wee group we are becoming....friends in battle.

Luv n stuff to you all

S x

Hi Kimmiddle

I hope you don't mind me butting in  but I just wanted to let you know that whilst Stevie might be reading his mail he's not been replying for a wee while, not even to his private messages.........so if you're around pet let us know how you're doing eh?  We're worried about you.

S x

Hi Deb,

Hope you're well.

Stevie has gone a bit AWOL, we'll try and track him down via PM's.

Speak soon

S x