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It would be fair to say that since October, when I was diagnosed, I haven’t been particularly happy. Things have been hard and I haven’t really had a moment where I just relax and forget about everything that has been going on. Its not through lack of trying either, but things are just hard, cancer,…
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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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I left the appointment and all hat I could think was how soon that was. My mum kept reassuring me that it was a good thing, that I wouldn’t have time to think, and I knew she was right. I am very good at overthinking and worrying, so the less time I have to do…
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We arrived on the ward and checked in, took our seats and waited. While we were waiting we started to come up with some sort of plan, devising a little bit of an action plan, what would we do between now and surgery. Trying to figure out how much time we had, in our heads…
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The ward was so very busy that day, the waiting room was full and people were rushing back and forth hurriedly trying to get things done in a timely manner. I’m not sure if it was the stress getting to me, but I felt like I was seeing all the goings on through a weird…
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