Category Archives: health & happiness

hernia update

29 Thursday Oct 2009

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scalpel

You may remember that I had to go to the hospital last week because the hernia I’d been told about after my last CT scan had become infected and was hurting A LOT. After a week of antibiotics and anti-inflammatories it felt better but actually looked worse. The part that had been red and sore looked like a water blister and so, rather than poke it with a pin myself (it was sooo tempting) I decided it would be best to head back to the hospital…
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hernia!

20 Tuesday Oct 2009

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hernia

After going a whole week with the scar area above my belly button being very sore and red, I decided it was time to get it checked out. Especially as a sizable lump had appeared over the weekend. So yesterday Flor picked me up around 6pm and took me to the hospital.  At first we went up to the “digestivo” ward to try and find one of my surgeons, but none of them were on duty at that time. What memories that brought back, seeing all the rooms again and the people in their beds (shudder!).  After that we went over to Emergency and got on the list, then went to Nuclear Medicine to see if any of The Team were there. Imagine my relief when I saw that both Pilar and Isabel were still at work…

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on sleeping in…

18 Sunday Oct 2009

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garfield sleeping
I’m finally getting the hang of it!
At least one day a week…

My sleeping has been so f*cked up lately that I’m worried about my ability to heal and get better because of it. No matter what, I end up lying awake in the wee hours and, even if I lie down for awhile in the afternoon, I often don’t fall asleep for my siesta. BUT … lately I have been learning the art of the morning lie in, which I think helps me a lot. During the week I have to get up early (about 6.45) to get to my yoga & pilates classes, and on Saturdays there are always morning errands and shopping to do. But Sundays are perfect lie in days, especially now that I have got over the feeling that I am “wasting the morning” by staying in bed. Besides, then I have less Sunday to have to get through…

Of course, I might get to sleep more easily without the pillow hog.
What do you think?

a year later…

12 Monday Oct 2009

Posted by in cancer, change, chemo, diet & nutrition, fitness, friends, health & happiness, hope, hospitals

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past-present-future

It was just over a year ago that I was told my cancer had become inoperable, that they could give me chemo to slow down the inevitable, and that without treatment I had maybe a year to live. I later found out that this idiot oncologist hadn’t even read my biopsy results, she had just assumed (as the surgeons had done) that the “buckshot” mess found on my peritoneum during my second operation was cancer –  it turned out to be old scar tissue. Anyhow, this is one of the many reasons she is now my ex-oncologist.

Since then I have had another recurrence, have gone through chemo again (April-July) and am now living on a “wait & watch” basis, with scans being done every three months…

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