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It’s a day to celebrate nurses and all the work they do. Let me tell you that’s a lot!!! I’ve spent a lot of time in hospital, over the past 12 years or so and having a good Nurse makes such a huge difference to your time in hospital. So from myself, and every other…
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I have had a lot of people tell me lately how well I am coping with everything, and that I am so positive. This is very kind, however not entirely true. Since October, life has been hard. Really hard, and the truth is I am not coping well, that is not to say I am…
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Six months ago today I had life changing and life saving surgery. A grapefruit size cancer was removed from my  abdomen – wow six months!!
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Six weeks to the day post surgery. Wow. It feels surreal. This was to be a big week full of appointments, but most importantly the appointment where I would be offered Mitotane, as I write this it is the day before meeting with the doctor, and at this point still I am undecided if it…
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Something I have learned since being diagnosed with cancer and having my operation is that I am not very good at managing my expectations and I put a lot of pressure on myself to be busy and productive all the time. I came home from hospital and fully anticipated that I would be up ad…
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I mentioned in my last post, talking about post surgical recovery that feeling the cold was a nice thing, and in fact a welcome experience after so long. I have previously spoken about how I had many symptoms that were plaguing my everyday life and were both causing me to feel self conscious but were…
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Today is 100 days since I’ve started chemo, 100 days!
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This is an off topic(ish) blog post. But I’m going away for the weekend and so want to get in something to go up while I am away. This is something that’s been on my mind a lot recently. It probably wont come as much of a shocker but my mood has been pretty low…
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The intensive care recovery ward is all a bit of a blur, I was still heavily sedated, and at that point wasn’t in any pain. That epidural was certainly doing its job!! I had an oxygen nasal tube and the canula still in my hand. For a while I was drifting in and out of…
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So a very short post today. It’s been a heck of a week, full of appointments. But I have two bits of positivity to share. 1. Last week I went bowling with my team again! Didn’t do too badly either – scoring 4 spares over the 2 games. I need to get some more games…
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