Living with Cancer

Hi I was first diagnosed with NLPHL in 1979 and have just completeded another bout of chemo after having a relaspe in 2016 What really gets me is the uncertainly of when I am going to relaspe again. Because of the rare nature of my disease the statistic are sketchy and all they can do extrapolate with Hodgkin when this is likely and work on German studies. This is really fustrating. I find the lack of info about NLPHL, even in this forum it's not meantioned and you have to search. I get lots of minor problems which usually end with me in a hospital and I end up explaining to the doctor who have never heard of NLPHL. Frustrating. i was reading Jax296 post and she was saying how tired she gets. I found that Healthwise is great for improving stamina and combating tiredness. For those who don't know it's run  in conjunction with the local authorities and referrals are made via your GP and is country wide. Anyway, apart form living with a time bomb I feel OK but would really like some more info

  • Hi Jolamine,

    I agree with the garden. Mine is much too large now and becomes out of control very quickly. Because of my condition I am olny allowed light gardening with gloves and have to ensure I scrub my hands after, which in my husbands eyes mean no gardening. It's the microbes in the soil can be danagerous to me. I am pallative care. So I start something and everyone rushes to stop me and takes over. It work like a charm, I say "i'm just dead heading".

    Chin up it will soon be Christmas.

     

    Yvonne

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    Hi Yvonne,

    You are lucky that you have others who can step in when the gardening needs to be done. Unfortunately, my hubby has had hayfever all his life, so has had the ideal excuse not to help out. It has improved a lot over the past few years, but he now has heart failure and cannot lift anything heavy.

    It has been so wet this autumn that I am still trying to finish tidying up. We took 6 trailer loads to the dump between yesterday and today. We still have 2 more loads to go, as there was a huge queue when we went back with the second last load, so we decided to take it back home and to bring it down early tomorrow. The result is that we are both shattered tonight. Hubby went off to bed at 7.30PM and he will sleep right through to tomorrow morning - lucky man, I don't sleep so well, no matter how tired I am.

    Kind regards,

    Jolamine xx