Cancer
- Thread starter Nova2k7
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I am very sorry for your loss.
My wife was diagnosed with Cancer in 2007 and was treated with both Chemotherapy and Radiation...she was just declared 5 years cancer free and kicked out of their treatment system. She is one of the good news stories. This incident has impacted our lives significantly.
I am now a volunteer driver, taking patients to their treatments. Recently, I drove a lady to her appointment in my Z4 with the top down and that made her day, probably her month. She told me she regretted it was not a 'date' rather than a radiation treatment or she would have dressed for the occasion. Little things mean a great deal to people going through cancer treatment. And as you said, we knew very little about cancer before it hit our lives.
It is extremely important that guys get their prostate checked and ladies get a mammogram each and every year...no exceptions. If you catch cancer quick enough it can be cured.
My wife was diagnosed with Cancer in 2007 and was treated with both Chemotherapy and Radiation...she was just declared 5 years cancer free and kicked out of their treatment system. She is one of the good news stories. This incident has impacted our lives significantly.
I am now a volunteer driver, taking patients to their treatments. Recently, I drove a lady to her appointment in my Z4 with the top down and that made her day, probably her month. She told me she regretted it was not a 'date' rather than a radiation treatment or she would have dressed for the occasion. Little things mean a great deal to people going through cancer treatment. And as you said, we knew very little about cancer before it hit our lives.
It is extremely important that guys get their prostate checked and ladies get a mammogram each and every year...no exceptions. If you catch cancer quick enough it can be cured.
lacroupade
Veteran
Commiserations. 
After a lifetime struggling with an extreme debilitating form of arthritis that has incapacitated her, my sister had been diagnosed with terminal cancer; started as breast cancer but had already spread to lymph nodes and bones and although on chemo currently, life expectancy not very great.
There but for the grace of god and all that. As Stromtech says, get yourself checked regularly and live every day like it might be your last.
After a lifetime struggling with an extreme debilitating form of arthritis that has incapacitated her, my sister had been diagnosed with terminal cancer; started as breast cancer but had already spread to lymph nodes and bones and although on chemo currently, life expectancy not very great.
There but for the grace of god and all that. As Stromtech says, get yourself checked regularly and live every day like it might be your last.
south yorkshire
Sorry to hear of your loss. Horrible disease, wish there was a cure!
My wife's going in for an op on August 1st,we're hoping to catch the cancer early enough to be a permanent fix. She's 39.We're hoping for the best but underneath we're both quietly terrified. It affects so many people in so many ways,and far too common.A big hug from me and Mrs Bigshurv to anyone who has been affected by this awful disease.
Lightning isn't supposed to strike twice, but it feels at times that our family is a lightning rod when it comes to Cancer.
I've been fighting it since 2009. Six months after I got married I developed a lot of back pain (my colleagues delighted in telling me why a newly wed would have such pain!). The GP completely ignored my constant appearance at his surgery. At 28 he'd decided I was too young for it to be serious. Eventually when I got to a CT Scan they found a rare Adrenal Cancer that had metastatised in numerous bones, including some vertebrae. I'll be fighting it until the day I depart this world, which led to an attitude to enjoy life far more than previously- 1st stop was buying a sports car!
Unfortunately in 2011, my wife found a lump in her mouth. On investigation it turned out the vile disease had got her too, thank God only a small tumour that was easy to remove from her mouth. We couldn't believe it had happened to her too.
Last month was the big shock though. My Mum had breast cancer 8 years ago and had been clear of it since. About a year ago it reappeared and 18th June it took her away from us. The pain from that is going to linger for a long time.
People say they don't know how I can handle the regular treatments, scans and rollercoaster of good & bad news. As anyone who has experienced it will say, somehow you just manage to - you have no choice but to.
When you receive the help - medical, physical or emotional - that you get from the Doctors, nurses, staff and Macmillan type specialists it really humbles you about how much we give back to the world and to communities around us.
I've been fighting it since 2009. Six months after I got married I developed a lot of back pain (my colleagues delighted in telling me why a newly wed would have such pain!). The GP completely ignored my constant appearance at his surgery. At 28 he'd decided I was too young for it to be serious. Eventually when I got to a CT Scan they found a rare Adrenal Cancer that had metastatised in numerous bones, including some vertebrae. I'll be fighting it until the day I depart this world, which led to an attitude to enjoy life far more than previously- 1st stop was buying a sports car!
Unfortunately in 2011, my wife found a lump in her mouth. On investigation it turned out the vile disease had got her too, thank God only a small tumour that was easy to remove from her mouth. We couldn't believe it had happened to her too.
Last month was the big shock though. My Mum had breast cancer 8 years ago and had been clear of it since. About a year ago it reappeared and 18th June it took her away from us. The pain from that is going to linger for a long time.
People say they don't know how I can handle the regular treatments, scans and rollercoaster of good & bad news. As anyone who has experienced it will say, somehow you just manage to - you have no choice but to.
When you receive the help - medical, physical or emotional - that you get from the Doctors, nurses, staff and Macmillan type specialists it really humbles you about how much we give back to the world and to communities around us.
, heart goes out to you guys. You’re the same age as me could not imagine the same happening jezzz you never know do you So many sad stories. My heartfelt best wishes to you all.
Nova2k7, really feel for you mate :friends:
Just after I started my third year of university my mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at the age of 42. A year later in September 1994 she passed away, after having the the worst and best year of her life. She spent all of it either in treatment or doing many of the things she and my father had always said they would do. It was very, very hard, especially as I was away most of the time at Uni - only an hour up the road in St. Andrews, but still... It has unfortunately continued to be hard - she wasn't at my graduation, she didn't pack me off to London for my first job, she wasn't at my wedding, she never met her first grandchild or saw my first home. There are times when things haven't been going well at home when I have really, really missed her, and other times when things are good that she is just a fleeting thought, or a smell, a song, or a phrase that I hear myself saying to my son, amongst many other things. I feel a bit guilty I don't think of her more, but here's the thing - life goes on, and she's not really gone because she is a part of who I am, how I behave and as a result everything I do. She lives on in me, my brother and my father, and to a fair degree she'll live on in my son as well.
Unfortunately as we get older death becomes more real and apparent - since my mother died we have lost her mother and brother, as well as my Father's sister, to the same disease, and earlier this year my grandfather passed away from natural causes. I only hope I can do their memory proud in the life I choose to lead, and my joy in the family I spend that life with. A bit deep perhaps, but something to hold onto when the going gets a little rough.
Chin up - she'd only bollock you for sitting on your ass and moping around
Just after I started my third year of university my mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at the age of 42. A year later in September 1994 she passed away, after having the the worst and best year of her life. She spent all of it either in treatment or doing many of the things she and my father had always said they would do. It was very, very hard, especially as I was away most of the time at Uni - only an hour up the road in St. Andrews, but still... It has unfortunately continued to be hard - she wasn't at my graduation, she didn't pack me off to London for my first job, she wasn't at my wedding, she never met her first grandchild or saw my first home. There are times when things haven't been going well at home when I have really, really missed her, and other times when things are good that she is just a fleeting thought, or a smell, a song, or a phrase that I hear myself saying to my son, amongst many other things. I feel a bit guilty I don't think of her more, but here's the thing - life goes on, and she's not really gone because she is a part of who I am, how I behave and as a result everything I do. She lives on in me, my brother and my father, and to a fair degree she'll live on in my son as well.
Unfortunately as we get older death becomes more real and apparent - since my mother died we have lost her mother and brother, as well as my Father's sister, to the same disease, and earlier this year my grandfather passed away from natural causes. I only hope I can do their memory proud in the life I choose to lead, and my joy in the family I spend that life with. A bit deep perhaps, but something to hold onto when the going gets a little rough.
Chin up - she'd only bollock you for sitting on your ass and moping around