This post has taken me so long to pluck up the courage to write. I don’t actually know whether this post or my first post has taken the most courage. It took a lot of courage to start writing anything about our family cancer journey. But what happened next is not something that I amContinue reading “The final days”
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Chemotherapy
We were all nervous about the start of the Chemotherapy. Was it going to work? Was it going to make Dad really poorly? I can’t even begin to think how dad was really feeling about it. He tried not to show his emotions but I know deep down he was worried. The day of hisContinue reading “Chemotherapy”
Dad’s return to hospital…
So after just over a week back at home, dad started getting breathless again. He was admitted to hospital for a second time. I made it clear to the admitting registrar that dad had not been informed properly about his probable diagnosis so she sat down with us and explained it all. Dad was inContinue reading “Dad’s return to hospital…”
The diagnosis
So after being told by the GP that he was 99.9% certain that nothing sinister was occurring in dad’s lung, I was a lot happier but still worried. My concerns grew as dad’s ‘pneumonia’ still did not resolve with another set of antibiotics. He went to see another GP in his practice who then arrangedContinue reading “The diagnosis”
A bit about my dad
Everyone thinks that they will not get cancer, but cancer does not care who it affects. Its never too late to make changes to reduce your risk of getting cancer. Here I discuss what we could have done differently to try to prevent my dad getting cancer.
Cancer journey - a relatives perspective 