The “Make My Mummy Better” campaign has
been set up to fund treatment that I am receiving
in Germany for metastatic breast cancer
Registered Charity Address:
Friends Supporting Friends
Make My Mummy Better Campaign
Old Courthouse
High Street
Fairford
Gloucestershire
GL7 4AD
Registered Charity No. 1113977
Friday 23rd January 2009
I apologise for not updating my blog during the last three months. It has felt like I was constantly exhausted. The last thing I felt like doing was sitting at the computer.In summary, the last few months have been tough. I have had continuous, and at times very serious, diarrhea and numerous episodes of nausea and sickness. I felt like I had absolutely no energy. I was sleeping a lot during the day. Feeling very low because constantly tired.
I did however, manage to pick myself up and try to enjoy the festive season, whenever I could. Christmas is a special time for everyone, but especially children. I wanted Mya to enjoy Christmas, so we tried to make it as enjoyable as possible for her and us. Despite my tiredness, we did have a lovely Christmas.
On Christmas Eve I had my sixth cycle of this series of Chemo. My UK Oncologist told me that he had been in touch with Mr. Gui, Surgeon in London. They have penciled in the 24th January for my double mastectomy. I was so pleased to hear that it was all looking like it was going to go ahead.
I woke up on New Years day feeling very ill – flu like symptoms and even worse diarrhea. During the week it got unbearable and I went to the Dunedan to get some tests done. The following day I spent the whole day at the Dunedan having IV fluids as I was dehydrated. As usual the fluids helped and I felt better by the evening. But the next morning I was feeling very ill again. So spent most of the weekend resting and sleeping.
Got a call on Monday 12th January from My UK Oncologist saying that my tests from the previous week showed that I had the C-Diff (Clostridium difficile) bacterial virus. I would need to take a course of anti-biotics for 10 days. I was worried that this might cause my operation to be postponed, but after speaking to Mr. Gui’s secretary, I was assured that it would be ok to go ahead as long as I was feeling better.
Had to have a PET scan at the Churchill hospital in Oxford on Friday 16th January. This scan would be the deciding factor as to whether surgery would be possible or not. If the scan showed that the cancer had spread either to my bones or my organs then there was a strong chance that the double mastectomy would be cancelled. I had been feeling quite a lot of pain in my left hip over the last month so was feeling very scared about what the scan might show up.
Great News!!!! Got the scan results on Thursday afternoon (cutting it very fine!!!). My UK Oncologist said that the results were very good. He was very surprised at how good they were. It showed that the cancer was contained in the breast area. It hadn’t spread at all. The chemo and all the other drugs were doing a fantastic job. I was over the moon. It was all going ahead on Saturday. I had been working towards this goal for a year and it was actually going to happen.
Write a comment