Subject: RE: BS: chemotherapy From: olddude Date: 20 Dec 15 - 11:35 AM Hi Mike, I am so happy you are doing well after 20 years. All the best, happy holidays |
Subject: RE: BS: chemotherapy From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 20 Dec 15 - 08:26 AM Thanks. The staff at Lister, Stevenage have been very good too. |
Subject: RE: BS: chemotherapy From: GUEST,MikeL2 Date: 20 Dec 15 - 05:36 AM Hi Keith I have had Chemo - about 20 years ago. There is some good advice here especially by Musket. listen to the medical advice and think of the goal ahead. In my experience the oncologists were fantastic as were all the other medics that were involved. I found the treatment debilitating at first but my body ( or was it my brain?)soon began to adapt and I lived with it with the help of my wife and family. As you said Chemo treatment has improved since I had it and so has the total approach to the disease. I also had to have Radio Therapy and again this has improved over the years. I was treated at The Christie in Manchester ( Then called Christies). Hospital). I was given all the help,assistance and advice from the staff that helped me enormously. I was given a telephone number and told if I had any problems to call it. I did have one panic attack in the middle of the night and the then Head of Oncology came out to see me and assured me that the problem I was having was part of the treatment and quite normal. Best Wishes Mike |
Subject: RE: BS: chemotherapy From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 20 Dec 15 - 04:58 AM So sorry to hear that you will have a worrying and difficult Christmas Alan. Please send our love to Elizabeth, and many thanks for the e-card. keith. |
Subject: RE: BS: chemotherapy From: GUEST,Lanfranc sans cookie Date: 19 Dec 15 - 05:41 PM Keith We're going through some of the same at present. Elizabeth goes into hospital in Ipswich on Christmas Eve for a hysterectomy necessitated by a tumour. We're still coming to terms with it as it has only been a few weeks since the symptoms first arose. At our age I suppose that we should expect such problems, but the eternal teenager within still expects immortality. We wish both you and Mary all the very best. Alan |
Subject: RE: BS: chemotherapy From: maeve Date: 19 Dec 15 - 10:09 AM Here you go, Keith. Enjoy in good health! Click here to laugh! |
Subject: RE: BS: chemotherapy From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 19 Dec 15 - 06:18 AM Thanks again everyone. Musket, I agree with everything in your post and you are also right about me. Not often I can say that! Thanks Musket and all for taking the time to write. keith. |
Subject: RE: BS: chemotherapy From: ChanteyLass Date: 18 Dec 15 - 09:22 PM Keith, I have no personal experience with this-yet. I know many who have been down that road as you probably do, too. I'm sending love and positive thoughts and hope you will update us as often as you can. |
Subject: RE: BS: chemotherapy From: GUEST,Musket Date: 18 Dec 15 - 06:31 PM Reality puts dancing on the head of an angel (or whatever the analogy is) into perspective. In the real world, we have many things to consider and take stock about. I genuinely look forward to completely disagreeing with you in the strongest terms you or I can articulate on a keyboard on the many issues of life that frankly don't affect either of us at all. Your journey back to where you started is about the real world and in that, I am thinking about you. Not praying because I don't don't that. Not muttering platitudes because I don't do that. But can't wait till your energy is back to a level where we can both enjoy the cathartic joy of winding each other up. You enjoy it as much as I do. A close relative is perhaps a couple of months further into their treatment than you for the same problem. DVD box sets seem to keep her from being bored. Bubble gum entertainment is not so bad when you feel knackered till you get used to the treatment. I am sat in a hotel lobby right now because I don't enjoy the disco. I am at a Chrimbo dinner for a cancer charity Mrs Musket and do voluntary work for. The people around me right now have been where you are and are enjoying themselves. Yeah, listen to the experts as I said earlier but you and your good wife should also listen to yourselves and don't let the bastard grind you down. Mrs Musket cures and contains your wife's issue for a living and the success stories give her the impetus to enjoy her work. Ian. |
Subject: RE: BS: chemotherapy From: gnu Date: 18 Dec 15 - 03:35 PM My thoughts and prayers, Keith. Visit the Jane's Rainbow thread if you care to... we sail in this ship together. |
Subject: RE: BS: chemotherapy From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 18 Dec 15 - 03:08 PM I am deeply touched by everyone's kindness, and shared experiences. Thanks everyone. As yet I have no pain, or any symptoms except I can't eat so much. I think pancreatic cancer is often like that. I still would not know I had it but it blocked my bile duct turning me yellow! A clever man with an endoscope and a stent fixed that for me, but the cancer was already too far gone for surgery, unless the chemo shrinks it. My onc. reckons a one in four chance. keith. |
Subject: RE: BS: chemotherapy From: GUEST Date: 18 Dec 15 - 02:54 PM Eat well to keep your weight up and do some pot if you suffer from nausea and need to stimulate your appetite. |
Subject: RE: BS: chemotherapy From: LilyFestre Date: 18 Dec 15 - 02:46 PM Keith, I went through chemotherapy and would be happy to answer any questions you have as best I can. :) There are some tips and tricks to making some of it easier. Send me a PM and I'd be happy to share. OXOXOXO Michelle |
Subject: RE: BS: chemotherapy From: Bonzo3legs Date: 18 Dec 15 - 02:43 PM My wife is on permanent low dose chemotherapy medication for her bone marrow disease. Sorry to hear of your bad luck and wish you all the best. |
Subject: RE: BS: chemotherapy From: GUEST,Peter from seven stars link Date: 18 Dec 15 - 02:33 PM Wishing you well keith, and posted with a prayer. Blessings. Pete. |
Subject: RE: BS: chemotherapy From: akenaton Date: 18 Dec 15 - 12:04 PM Keith is one of the strongest and straightest people I know, if anyone can beat this , it will be Keith....very best wishes my friend. PM you later. |
Subject: RE: BS: chemotherapy From: EBarnacle Date: 18 Dec 15 - 11:56 AM Have faith in yourself and in your future. If Jimmy Carter can beat the Dark Side, the odds are always improving. |
Subject: RE: BS: chemotherapy From: olddude Date: 18 Dec 15 - 11:51 AM All the best, please keep us posted. My wife's path was not too bad at all. She was tired and slept a lot but it was ok. In my prayers and thoughts. Just listen to the docs and make sure you eat good healthy stuff to keep up your strength |
Subject: RE: BS: chemotherapy From: GUEST,wysiwyg minus cookie Date: 18 Dec 15 - 11:29 AM Keith, it's different for everyone and yet in many ways the same. You will both find your best support from people who've been through it, and this often starts with one's fellow chemo-appointment folks. Don't forget to take some music on earbuds with you, and to be kind to yourself. And laughter-- it may come in odd places and will always do you a world of good. Thanks for telling us about it. And telling and telling, in the days ahead. It's a marathon, not a sprint... take time to look about, on this journey. All the best, ~Susan |
Subject: RE: BS: chemotherapy From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 18 Dec 15 - 10:02 AM Thanks for the good will everyone. It means a lot to me. My talk was encouraging too, but I was warned it can effect some folk worse than others. There were a few people in the suite receiving treatment, and they seemed comfortable and relaxed. Some quite jolly! My wife Mary has just been diagnosed with breast cancer, but we do not know what her treatment will be yet. Thanks again. So grateful for the good wishes. I will tell you how I get on. keith. |
Subject: RE: BS: chemotherapy From: Stilly River Sage Date: 18 Dec 15 - 09:18 AM Laughter is the best companion to chemo, if not precisely the best medicine, and friends who have found watching old episodes of the funniest programs they can find to be helpful. I'm not sure what those might be on your side of the pond, but I'm sure a list will form if you ask. The flip side of that is to spend less time fighting on mudcat. Stick with the music threads, they'll always do you right! Wishing you a great outcome, Keith. |
Subject: RE: BS: chemotherapy From: gillymor Date: 18 Dec 15 - 08:58 AM Chin up, Keith, it looks like you've got a lot of folks rooting for you, myself included. |
Subject: RE: BS: chemotherapy From: Mr Red Date: 18 Dec 15 - 06:26 AM a local friend is going through it. He reported tiredness for a day or two after each episode. But he was in the Farmers' Market with his dogs & wife supping tea 4 days later so I would suggest - get in the DVDs and a good book. |
Subject: RE: BS: chemotherapy From: Will Fly Date: 18 Dec 15 - 05:35 AM And from me too, Keith. As Musket and others have said, focus on the positive, end results more than anything else. Good luck. Will |
Subject: RE: BS: chemotherapy From: Steve Shaw Date: 18 Dec 15 - 05:12 AM All the best from me, Keith. Keep yer pecker up! |
Subject: RE: BS: chemotherapy From: GUEST,hiLo Date: 18 Dec 15 - 05:09 AM Best of luck to You Keith . |
Subject: RE: BS: chemotherapy From: fat B****rd Date: 18 Dec 15 - 02:59 AM The very best of good luck to you, Keith. Charlie |
Subject: RE: BS: chemotherapy From: Kampervan Date: 18 Dec 15 - 02:50 AM Absolutely agree with everything that Musket has said. But also,Be Positive. The way that you approach this can make so much difference both to the process and the outcome. Go into it confidently, knowing that it's just something that you've got to do and then you can move on. And as Musket says, listen to the professionals. |
Subject: RE: BS: chemotherapy From: Dave the Gnome Date: 18 Dec 15 - 02:47 AM Good luck, Keith and sincere wishes for success of the treatment. Cheers Dave |
Subject: RE: BS: chemotherapy From: GUEST,Musket Date: 18 Dec 15 - 02:41 AM The real me to the real you. Good luck. Listen carefully and remember to take in the positive as well as the negative aspects of what they say. Chemotherapy is a group term and no two situations are the same, being a combination of your body and the help these drugs give it in suppressing or deleting the problem. Oncology has come on in leaps and bounds over the years and as someone involved at periphery of care, I see the increasing quality of life these interventions can give. It's the result not the process you need to focus on. But vastly more importantly, listen to the experts, not the irratic world of blokes on the Internet. That said, you'd be surprised how many on here have been there. |
Subject: RE: BS: chemotherapy From: Joe Offer Date: 18 Dec 15 - 02:25 AM Good luck, Keith. -Joe- |
Subject: BS: chemotherapy From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 18 Dec 15 - 01:12 AM I start on Monday having been turned down for surgery. Not looking good. Anyone out there had any personal experience of chemo? I have been told it is less debilitating than it used to be. Hope so. I am getting a briefing about it at the hospital today. Will report back later. Oct. 17, 2018 announcement from Keith Nov. 23, 2018 post from Lynne Heraud |
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