I was diagnosed with Cancer in March and although we knew it was Cancer its still a shock to be told it. I have had 2 chemo cycles now and have my 3rd at the end of the month. I would love to chat about the chemo side affects to anyone..
Hello everybody, may I join you and introduce myself? I opened a new thread on this subject the other day in the "introduce yourself" section, but I really wanted to get onto this site. I am 67 yo and live in Essex, UK and have recently been diagnosed as having tumours on both ovaries, plus some areas on the omentum and outer bowel. However, my hospital MDT wants to ascertain whether my ovaries are the primary site or secondary to breast ca I had 15 years ago before planning my treatment, so I've just had a biopsy and await results on 22nd Feb. I found your site about a month ago and was both heartened by all your posts, and at the same time scared - not of the treatment particularly but the outcome. Some days I feel that I won't get through this, other days I think "No, you won't get me, you (expletive deleted!)"
The last post on your site was 28th Dec, I have been checking, so I hope you are all getting along OK
Sorry to hear of your complications and setbacks. My advice would be to try not to panic so much at this stage, but to wait and see what the scan results show. Then when you discuss your options with the hospital team take someone from your family with you so that you can all decide together, or ask for more time to decide.
Let us know when you've had the scan results - I'll have everything crossed for you.
Well your hospital certainly seem to be making this hard for you yet again! After all of the waiting they have put you through they are still undecided about the best course of action for you - almost making you decide for yourself what to do!
Hazel is right, you should take someone with you to the consultation, preferably a family member or a good friend. It is always good to have an extra pair of ears and someone else to ask questions, and DO ask questions it's very important. Start writing down your concerns now so you are prepared at your next meeting, talk to your family to get more ideas about what you should be asking. And if it works better for you, get them to ask some or all of the questions.
I asked a lot of questions at Mary's last consultation, her onc was all ready to rush off but I told him I wanted to ask a few questions before he did. We both felt a lot better after the discussion and I will make sure I have more questions for him at next clinic.
Thanks for the tip re. podcasts John, I'll have a bash at it, though not sure if my phone will do it. Can only try, I guess!
Hazel x
Hi Hazel,
Hope you are doing ok post-chemo.
If you need any help with the podcast stuff, let me know. Hopefully if you have a memory card in your phone, a music player and a hands-free headset, it should be possible. You would need to download the podcasts to your PC, then copy the files to your phone using your USB data lead, normally you can just drag and drop the files without installing any special software. Hope I'm not teaching you to suck eggs LOL.
Mary doing well at the moment, so keeping fingers crossed for Portugal on Thursday.
Not a good start, boarded the plane and was told there will be a 1.5 hour delay due to Portuguese air traffic control action! Hence I have switched my smartphone back on. Due to take off at 8:10 now, not sure why they made us board knowing this. Oh well never mind, not long now.
How did the new anti sickness measures work out in the end?
Hope you've arrived safely by now and can get messages!
Enjoy yourselves, anyway, hope it's sunny!
New anti-emetics only marginally better, in that nausea just as bad, just no actual vomiting, and whole thing lasted one day less! Still, guess I have to be grateful for small mercies!
Just got back from the Algarve, the weather wasn't great but it was a nice break and we were forunate to be given one of the best hotel rooms with a panoramic sea view! Mary was absolutely fine while we were away, thank goodness! Starting cycle 4 after clinic on Thursday.
Sorry to hear there's not much improvement with the nausea - I guess the wrist bands didn't help either? How did the scan go? (I am guessing it was a CT) Did you get the results?
