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hi Buttonsbear,

waiting is the hardest thing to do! i know i have been there!

i have been diagonosed with colon cancer and after a MRI and CAT scan and Biopsy.

my combined chemo and radiotherepy starts a week today thank goodness 9 (25 days of tumour meltdown)

my advise to you is do what i did ring the specialist's secretary. ask her:

1. if the results are out yet if not when. what the results are  due.

2. what are the results.

i was amazed to find out the full extent of my condition from the specialist nurse i was put in touch with.

don't be timid in asking after all it is your body. if it is clear she may tell you.

if the news is not good once you know it is easier to deal with. you have to say to yourself right i have this

what is the extent of it how do i treat this. i see mine as a condition that needs treatment and then after my operation

i can get on with the rest of my life.  i intend to enjoy every day of my life even with cancer i still mange to have fun and a few laughs

each day.  hopefully your case may not be what you suspect but either way you are still you.  i wish you well in your situation and i hope the news is good.  i am thing of you.

paris

hi Buttonsbear,

i am so glad you rang i know you are still waiting for the results until tomorrow but at least you will

know please let me know how you have got on hope its good news.

its good to hear that you are exchanging contracts and you have a partner to support you.

i have had a wonderful husband for the last 27 years who is my rock his support has helped

me through this challanging time. i have been telling people i can't wait to go nuclear (as the

department is signed nuclear medicine) i have told the office staff where I work to put their

gigher counters away as i am not contagous! they were thinking of putting my desk in the

car park just in case!

anyway it seems you have a lot going on in your life at this time so i hope the best is yet to

come for you.

take care.

paris.

hi Buttonsbear,

sorry to hear you are being messed about it seems some people just don't

appreciate how much stress being messed about at a time like this can do

to someone. waiting on the end of the phone for important news is awful,

i hope you ring on monday, don't wait for them to ring you sadly i have found

out the more persistant you are the more likely you are to get a result.

anyway i hope you have a great weekend girlie friends and a trip to london

with retail therepy sounds the best medicine to me!

thanks for the special powers thing i have named my tumour charlie (apologies

to anyone called charlie out there) it goes back to my childhood my mum said

things were broken by an invisble charlie because  we refusd to own up!

my special powers and the chemo and radiation will mean charlie is going

on a diet and then when the surgeon removes charlie we will have a coming

out party for charlie (after he has been nuked).  my husband says the only

christmas present he wants this xmas is for me to be rid of charlie, with

my special powers i am working on it.

i hope you have a great weekend i know i will.

i will be thinking of you on monday.let me now how you get on.

take care x 

Paris