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• mastectomy double nothing lol

  by lesley1956 November 5, 2013
  Ok so have a date for my surgery presuming this barking cough clears up. Its not for want of trying or for lack of antibiotics. I know this surgery is what I need to minimise the cancer burden on my body but hell the thought is scary. I act all brave most of the ime but it is scaying the hell out o...
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• popped bubble

  by lesley1956 October 23, 2013
  I thought I was moving forward but I think I have presumed too much. I got told I was getting an appointment with a surgeon and thought it meant I would be considered for surgery but now I am thinking its just to talk and nothing will come of it. This damn emotional rollercoaster got me again and I...
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• Chemo number 3

  by lesley1956 September 26, 2013
  So I managed to pull myself together and move forward. Thank you all for your support and comments. I certainly seem to have a few downers but now know it comes on the evenings when I am over tired so I need to manage my energy levels better. Today was my third TAC therepy and it went well. My bloo...
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• emotional mess

  by lesley1956 September 16, 2013
  I am not coping at all. I just want to shut myself away do my treatment but have nobody around me. Every thing makes me cry. If I had somewhere to go I would but at the moment I can't even leave the house without anxiety. The last treatment bought on more stomache cramping and violent diorehea with...
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• second Chemo

  by lesley1956 September 4, 2013
  So its the night before my second Chemo TAC therepy and I am hoping it goes as well as last time. My port has develloped a small lump that seems to be poking out so am hoping nothing has gone wrong with it as it makes chemo so much easier. So my dexomethasone taken for tonight. last week we shave...
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• TAC

  by lesley1956 August 18, 2013
  Well i went in on Thursday with the hope that I would be getting my first dose of Chemo and it happened. A pleasant sit down with a cup of juice and some sandwitches. Great attention and detailed instructions from the staff and it all went great. Doing the right things with taking meds on time and i...
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• and so it begins

  by lesley1956 August 7, 2013
  So we are now home after all our tripping around and its time to get down to business. Friday I go in for a heart test of some sort at neuclea medicine then on Monday I will get my Port inserted. Thursday is another chat with my Oncologist and hopeful first cocktail on Friday. Now that will be a da...
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• flu

  by lesley1956 July 22, 2013
  we just got back from our trip to Derby and back to visit the daughter and her family. Great trip butsomewhere along the line the nine year old and the husband caught flu. Then we get home to a house that has been burgled and another son with a really bad case of flu. He said he thought he was dying...
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• Emotional overload

  by lesley1956 July 17, 2013
  It's my granddaughters 12th birthday, should be a celebration and is but I have to keep hiding away because I keep losing it and crying. This might be the last birthday I spend with her. My other granddaughter turns 14 next month her brother 3 in January next year. It's all time and how much I will ...
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• Kimberley

  by lesley1956 July 13, 2013
  Well we are really enjoying the trip. Tonight we watched a beautiful sunset at Derby jetty with my daughter and her three children. Boy how this town has grown since I lived here 38 years ago. I did get a message to let me know that my heart function test is booked for the 9th of August the day af...
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