Tuesday, September 08, 2009

MRI Scan appointment

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Had the letter through this morning with my appointment for 1st October! 5 weeks from when Dr Barrett suggested the scan, some urgency! As m...
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Friday, September 04, 2009

Had to call the Doctor out again

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Breathing is still really bad and I'm struggling to walk up and downstairs. The district nurses are visiting everyday to change my armpi...
Saturday, August 29, 2009

Feeling so sick all the time

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I'm still feeling really sick due to the spread to the mesentery around the stomach and had to call the out of hours doctors service tod...
Friday, August 28, 2009

Update from Spinal Surgeon

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Dr Barrett called me this morning to say that the Spinal Surgeon (he puts rods in your spine) thought that he wouldn't be able to help a...
Monday, August 24, 2009

Oncology appointment

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Had a good 35 minute consultation with Dr Barrett this afternoon reviewing all my problems that I thought I had plus something she highlight...
Saturday, August 22, 2009

Hols didn't quite go according to plan!

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Just returned from a well deserved break in the sun but unfortunately it didn't quite go according to plan. We had a really smooth jou...
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Friday, July 31, 2009

Blood Transfusion at Sue Ryder and admittance

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I've been feeling very tired and out of breath recently so Sue Ryder thought it would be a good idea to check my blood count and give me...
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Thursday, July 30, 2009

Is Erythromycin making me feel worse

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I've been on the antibiotic for a week now and I've felt sick every morning and my indigestion/heartburt has got really bad. Don...
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Thursday, July 23, 2009

Change of antibiotics for armpit

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The District Nurse took a swab last week from my armpit. The results have come back that there is a bacterial infection still and that the ...
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Thursday, July 09, 2009

Onc appointment

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Saw Dr Barrett today and she was all smiles. She had a look at my armpit and said that it was looking a lot better than when she last saw it...
Monday, July 06, 2009

Slow healing process

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My GP came out to see me today and had a look at the wound in my armpit. She is disappointed with the slow healing progress and had said th...
Saturday, July 04, 2009

Excrutiating pain in my back (Again!!)

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I got woken up at 2.30am with the most excrutiating pain in the left side of my back. I thought it was my kidneys but it was so painful, I ...
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Thursday, July 02, 2009

Back on 3rd set of antibiotics

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District Nurse not happy with the look and smell of wound so another round of antibiotics prescribed. I'm getting really disappointed w...
Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Extreme Muscle pain in back

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Since leaving the hospital a couple of weeks ago (and since the change of pain medication), I've been suffering with a really painful ba...
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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Wound still weeping during the night

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Although I'm having the dressings changed twice a day at the moment the wound is still managing to leak out during the night which means...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Onc appointment with Dr Barrett

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Saw Dr Barrett today so that she could keep an eye on me after my admission to hospital last week. She said that we wouldn't be consider...
Monday, June 15, 2009

Discharged from Adelaide

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My temperature behaved itself over the weekend so I rang to completely discharge myself from Adelaide Ward today. Apart from not feeling ver...
Saturday, June 13, 2009

Semi-Discharge from Adelaide Ward

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I've had a high temperature in the last 24 hours so although the Dr on Adelaide Ward said I could go home, he said he wasn't happy t...
Thursday, June 11, 2009

Not allowed home just yet

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I thought I might be going home today but in light of the hallucinations and not being able to form sentences properly they decided to keep ...
Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Hallucinations

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I started off with a fairly good nights sleep but soon got woken by the wound leaking, so I had another dressing. Unfortunately I hadn'...