18-07-2018, 03:37 PM
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Re: I've had my chest x-ray
No, I'm not putting in a complaint; her predecessor was excellent with me over a number of years, diagnosed my bi-polar, helped greatly with my panic attacks etc. I suppose with the psychiatry I'm just trying to cover all bases in my health care. Mentally I've been fine - frustrated at times, scared at others, but nothing beyond the normal parameters of a cancer patient. But things could get worse mentally for me and I'm trying to stay on top and be proactive now. I'm going to have a word with someone at the hospital tomorrow.
And Macmillan have been excellent with me, both in replying to an email and having quite a specialised phone call with one of their haemotology nurses the other night.
I've just re-read the entire thread and it was interesting to find out what happened and when. That, plus my reactions and the goodwill of other posters on here. Tomorrow's should be my last procedure. I just have another MRI and CT scan to get through and I see the Consultant on the 9th of August. I feel OK apart from the fatigue and the back pain, but I've felt a lot worse in my life. During my first cancer the chemo was a breeze, virtually no side effects; this time it's been much tougher. Also, last time I didn't have any infections just Delirium which was bad enough. I'm so glad I didn't develop Delirium this time round.
I appeared to be in remission from the Hodgkins Lymphoma, going by my 3-monthly checkups. This time around they didn't think it was cancer as the top of the spinal column would be a very strange place for a Lymphoma to appear.
Unfortunately, it turned out to be another cancer - non Hodgkins Lymphoma of which there are about 100 sub-variants. I've been lucky, though, it really is the best hospital in Britain for such cancers.