Living with stage iv metastatic cancer
What a fab spirit lifting, crispy sunny day. I had a lazy morning, but the sun lighting up my curtains wouldn’t leave me alone so up and out for a lovely 3 mile walk with my boy (Can’t afford to waste a day like today with so much rain about). Followed this with a fresh organic veggie juice, a green veggie pasta with a yummy creamy advocado, peanut sauce. I haven’t been feeling great in the last few months, back pain followed by radiotherapy followed…Continue Reading “Back in control”
I’m not posting this for sympathy or applause, but so I might continue to live and so we might stop losing our loved ones. Awareness and early detection is not enough. 3 years ago I posted this on facebook. Since then I have had a mastectomy and a port inserted cos my veins are now rubbish. I’ve had another 9 cycles of chemo and two other treatments that didn’t work. There is damage to my right lung, possibly a side effect of the radiotherapy that is…Continue Reading “5 years living with Stage IV Metastatic Breast Cancer.”
December 2012 Following a triple assessment was Diagnosed with Hormone positive, Her2 Negative breast cancer, with a 5cm Tumor in the right breast. Jan/February 2013 Following a bone scan and CT assisted Biop confirmed Stage IV with bone Mets March 2013 Started Hormone Treatment consisting of Zometa infusion ( for the Bones), Zoladex implant ( to stop the production of estrogen which is feeding my cancer, putting me into forced menopause) and Tamoxifen which blocks the action of estrogen. September 2013 Cancer progression to the…Continue Reading “My cancer timeline”
I went to see my Radio Onc consultant this morning, thinking he’d say I didn’t need to be zapped just yet. But unfortunately he didn’t, they want to do a bit of spot welding on my upper and lower spine fairly soon. Side effects from radiotherapy can be substantial. I still don’t know if my lung and heart issues last year were due to the radiotherapy I had on my breast, but nobody is denying it’s possible. Damned if you do and damned if you…Continue Reading “Zapped again”
Very Informative https://www.verywell.com/cc/metastatic-breast-cancer/navigating-diagnosis/what-is-metastatic-breast-cancer?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=shareurlbuttons
I thought last summer was bad, I spent most of it in hospital and nearly died. But this summer has been much worse, I lost 3 friends to Metastatic Cancer. That’s cancer that has left the initial site and spread to other parts of the body making, it incurable and fatal. I have never really felt any great anger about my own diagnosis, but I am so angry and deeply saddened now. There is so much emphasis on early detection and so little on finding…Continue Reading “Heartache”
I’ve been here since Monday with chest pain and a possible clot. Most of the tests were fine but I have to stay now for a scan. I have to respond to these things but I feel like a complete hypochondriac as I lie here taking up a bed, especially considering all the media coverage of the hospital crisis at the min. In the early hours of this morning the lady beside me died, It was heart-breaking and humbling to hear her children (teenagers and…Continue Reading “Waste”
Today was emotional, I was a big soppy, happy eejet. I took myself to Tibidabo or the Magic Mountain as it is known. And magic it was, from the minute I stepped off the funicular I was a gonner. There it was again that wallop in the chest that floored me. The tears came fast and I didn’t bother trying to stop them. And again tonight as I stood in stunning Pl. Del Rei listening to a gorgeous choir singing, in floods again. Last year…Continue Reading “Magic Mountain”
Yearly Deaths From Breast Cancer In Ireland 2005-20014 ( from the Central Statistics Office) 2005 – 696 2006 – 678 2007 – 614 2008 – 742 2009 – 665 2010 – 659 2011 – 697 2012 – 698 2013 – 718 2014 – 722 We are constantly being told that survivor rates for breast cancer are on the rise. This is only true in the sense that more women are being diagnosed, and diagnosed early enough to survive 5 YEARS. Those of us diagnosed with…Continue Reading “Survival rates on the rise???????”
https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/features/a-cancer-doctor-on-losing-his-wife-to-cancer-275040.html
