Cancer programme

[toyboy54]

Anybody watching this on BBC2?
Brings it home the advances being made all the time...if properly funded...the guinea pig has some size cajones. Would i volunteer in his position??Damn right I would! Am at the docs tomorrow for a B12 jag and am going to ask if I can start donating blood(and platelets)again as I have been clear for the timescale needed.
Delighted to find out that I can can also leave my body for organ donation(or either to science for the students to have some fun)Another option may be to the scappie to melt me down for the netal all over me-and give the money toSWMBO -for putting up with me /all the *** I put her thro medwise---couple of pence?
Jimbo

 

[srixon 1]

Anybody watching this on BBC2?
Brings it home the advances being made all the time...if properly funded...the guinea pig has some size cajones. Would i volunteer in his position??Damn right I would! Am at the docs tomorrow for a B12 jag and am going to ask if I can start donating blood(and platelets)again as I have been clear for the timescale needed.
Delighted to find out that I can can also leave my body for organ donation(or either to science for the students to have some fun)Another option may be to the scappie to melt me down for the netal all over me-and give the money toSWMBO -for putting up with me /all the *** I put her thro medwise---couple of pence?
Jimbo

I've seen it before, but it made me realise how lucky I have been with my version.

 

[toyboy54]

I've seen it before, but it made me realise how lucky I have been with my version.

Believe or not but I actually quite enjoyed the treatment process and all the follow up radiotherapy(still got my head/shoulders cage bolting me to the inside of the machine hanging up in the shed)SWMBO says that I am the most perverse person she's met--thank god she does'nt know about the bottles of wine the mate brought in.....purely to help me sleep of course!But,yes you are so right when you say it reminds you how lucky we are--but then again I really think attitude plays a huge part in the fight and the follow-up treatments!
Still we'll see what this year throws up.Certainly won't be doing any holidays abroad in case I have another series of strokes/seizures.As mentioned on earlier thread cost for insurance jumped substantially after my follow up to Januarys episode in July/August in Croatia(God bless our own NHS compared to there)!
Jimbo

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

I’m told that patients undergoing treatments for a cancer often prefer how things were during treatment to how they are immediately afterwards as during treatment they feel comforted that they are being managed closely by professionals through a treatment framework. Following treatment they can often feel very exposed and in fact quite lonely and vulnerable - actually missing the feeling of security that came from being in the treatment framework with the regular contact with the treatment team that that involved.

And that is why it is important for relatives and friends to provide support following treatment - as important as support during treatment can be it is for many more important afterwards and in remission - especially as there can be a perception that a cancer patient in remission is somehow ‘cured’ and OK. In fact that patient needs our support almost more than ever...as their fear can often be great...

 

[Robster59]

Some of my customers are the Cancer Research facilities and I always find the work they do quite staggering. And with new technology it is only going to increase apace. Funding allowing.
I was very fortunate in that my skin cancer was very treatable (an operation that made me look like I'd gone 10 rounds with Mike Tyson and then a four week skin treatment that made me look like a leper) but at the end of it, I've lost a few friends through it and had to watch my Dad go through the final days of agony with it so I have nothing but the utmost respect for all those involved.

 

[toyboy54]

SILH..Luckily I had a great support network kthankfully.There were characters at the club who I'd never played with before coming up to me to ask how was I doing and taking the Michael about the bald head and the feeding tube up my nose and round the ear-good banter all round.
Robster..Great news about the skin cancer(my ex-wife was a Dermatologist and could tell some horror stories.Had us all covered in sun cream both here and abroad.
Sensible girl.....don't know why she married me...must have been my sense of humour-certainly wasn't for my money!?
Sorry about your Dad.Had the same with my Mom but thankfully a McMillan nurse showed me how to take a drip out/fill it with air and replace back in the arm--I've never regretted that as it wasn't my Mom lying there was just a shell.
Some 'Friends' better off without them!Good you've recovered,remember the suncream(yes even in the U.K.)
Jimbo

 

[toyboy54]

OOps, meant to say that was informed that I won't be able to give as I'm being injected with vitB12 regularly and its now part of my bloodstream/but can still do the organ donation.
Anyone want a metallic head/pinned shoulder/pinned ankle?
Really peed off about the blood and platelets as I don't have the commonest group 'O'
Jimbo

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

SILH..Luckily I had a great support network kthankfully.There were characters at the club who I'd never played with before coming up to me to ask how was I doing and taking the Michael about the bald head and the feeding tube up my nose and round the ear-good banter all round.
Robster..Great news about the skin cancer(my ex-wife was a Dermatologist and could tell some horror stories.Had us all covered in sun cream both here and abroad.
Sensible girl.....don't know why she married me...must have been my sense of humour-certainly wasn't for my money!?
Sorry about your Dad.Had the same with my Mom but thankfully a McMillan nurse showed me how to take a drip out/fill it with air and replace back in the arm--I've never regretted that as it wasn't my Mom lying there was just a shell.
Some 'Friends' better off without them!Good you've recovered,remember the suncream(yes even in the U.K.)
Jimbo

Great stuff. Unfortunately there tends to be a tendency among friends and relatives of a cancer sufferer 'successfully' in remission, to think that their friend's troubles are pretty much over...when it is often the case that in the mind of the sufferer they are not over - they are simply different troubles and worries that have to be lived with. And that requires ongoing support and understanding. Sounds like you've got that support which is all good.