Karen Hemmings

  • Thanks Eve
    The tablets don't agree with me neither 🙁 will have to get some bananas when the shops open. Coffee and beer gave potassium in them too! Can feel a drink or 2 coming on tonight. 🙂
    Have a great time in New Zealand hope everything goes well.
    All the best
    Andy xx

  • Hi Andy

    Just a quick one,potassium,if you eat at least 2 banana,s a day or anything that has lots of potassium in,it will save you taking those horrible tablets,Slim said they played havoc with his stomach,when in ITU he had in through line,hope this helps.
    Good luck with everything.Love Eve

  • Hi everyone.
    Had my usual blood test yesterday hoping for an improvement in my results. My HB dropped from 10,1 to 9.7 my potassium fell – meaning I had to pick up 3 days of potassium tablets :-/ but my platelets went up from 126 to 179 and after been Neutropenic since the begin of October my neutrophils went from 0.6 up to 1.9! 😀 and to…[Read more]

  • tom replied to the topic Christmas in hospital ? in the forum Treatment 12 years, 12 months ago

    Good on you Peggy and I for one hope you get it sooner so you are out for xmas though am sure its going to be wasted I missed xmas and new year in 2009 🙁 but it was well worth it 😎

    Keep strong and hope you have no hold ups 🙂

    Love Tom "Onwards and Upwards" xxx

  • tom replied to the topic REVVING UP FOR SCT! in the forum Treatment 12 years, 12 months ago

    Hi Karen

    Its a shame I never done a "Blog" or kept notes? as am sure it would help reading what I can recall going through during my 18 month/two years you would be running into the hospital to get it started 😎

    We all go through it in differant ways and you just might beat my 16 days 🙂

    Good Luck

    Love Tom "Onwards and Upwards"…

  • Hi Vicki and Colin

    Am pleased the Hugs were good for you both, its not a lot but its good enough to cross the distance we have between us all 😀

    I hope all went well today with whoever you ended up seeing and are soon on the way back home Arms sorted or at least an answer to Why.

    Love and Hugs to you Both
    Tom "Onwards and Upwards"…

  • tom replied to the topic Charity night in the forum General 12 years, 12 months ago

    Well Done Andy and Gang, and a well done on the drink front am with Ali i think you would make a Rock Star drink and drugs and then sleep for hours Ha ha.
    Stay well My Friend and drink plenty 😎

    Tom "Onwards and Upwards"

  • jmsmyth replied to the topic Charity night in the forum General 12 years, 12 months ago

    Hi Andy
    So glad you enjoyed yourself. That's a great amount of money. Well done to all concerned. It is good to hear that you are having a good week – long may it continue 😀

    Take care
    Love Jean xx

  • Hi Vicki & Colin.
    I'm feeling good at the moment which is at odds to what I should be feeling given my situation but hey ho I'm not going to complain – well not too loudly. Get my latest pp results tomorrow at the vampire shop. They'll take the usual armful of blood as well hopefully my neutrophils will have improved a bit. Monday I'm of to see…[Read more]

  • Hi Peggy.
    I was diagnosed in October 2010. I haven't had a sct yet and don't look like having a one till early next year. Everyone's journey with mm is different. Some make it to sct with only 3 cycles of chemo. some (rare) like me don't respond to the drugs at all. The majority fall somewhere in the middle.
    My sct is going to have to be a…[Read more]

  • andyg started the topic Charity night. in the forum General 12 years, 12 months ago

    Hiya everyone.
    Well I've got back from the MyelomaUK charity night and the provisional total we raised was £1600.00 which I'm very impressed with. I had a great night drank more than I have in a long time, a massive 3.5 pints of real ale on top of my scheduled dose of steroids and I'm buzzing lol. Don't know what my blood tests in the morning…[Read more]

  • andyg replied to the topic Coming to terms in the forum Newcomers 12 years, 12 months ago

    Hi Karen
    A belated welcome to the forum I hope you find it a help. Sorry you've had to join us but truth be told none of us would choose to be here. I'm 54 diagnosed a year gone October after 18 months of back pain!!
    Unfortunately for me I'm proving rather difficult to treat (a rare case) and have had lots of different treatments with little or…[Read more]

  • Hi Sarah and Mum

    Well I also support your Mum in the decision not to have a SCT I had one but its not for everyone, I wish your Mum a good responce to the treatment she is given and with little sde effects.

    Give your Mum my best and tell her i wish her well in the road to recovery, its not over just because she is not having a SCT, stay…[Read more]

  • tom replied to the topic Coming to terms in the forum Newcomers 12 years, 12 months ago

    Hi Karen

    Sorry to hear you are a bit down 🙁 and am sure it will get better as time nips along I have neen in your position and after a few years and many a black day I am now "Spot On" stick with it Girl its going to be worth it 😎

    I dont have your request on Face Book ? you will know its me my photo is of me in red dickie bow 😎 one…[Read more]

  • Vicki and Colin

    Has Colin still got hnis Line in?? as sometimes that is the cause of infection and High Temp, Hope its all sorted and you both are back at home am sure its bloody hard work for you both so am sending you BOTH some of my Cyber Hugs (((((Hugs)))) (((Hugs)))) and trust me these work 😀

    Love and Hugs with the Hugs

    Tom…[Read more]

  • eve replied to the topic Calling Eve in the forum Off topic 12 years, 12 months ago

    Hi Everybody

    Yes still here,have been busy packing and going out to lunch ,will be leaving 2 friends behind who lost there husbands to cancer this year.:-(

    Nearly finished now,staying at daughter,s in Sevenoaks,and getting a taxi to Heathrow,£70:-0 ,that,s mates rates feel it,s better for Slim.wheelchair assistance on stand by.
    Taking the…[Read more]

  • Hey Tina
    Its not a moan Girl its an observation that you cant do what you did before and or want to do now, you have undergone "Major Surgery" I know we have no large scars no gaping wound and no stitches to show off but it is Major op we have had.

    Being weepy doesnt make you week it will make you better tears are a good release for us.
    As…[Read more]

  • tom replied to the topic Stem Cell Treatment in the forum Treatment 12 years, 12 months ago

    Hi Sarah and Mum

    As for needing someone at home after my SCT ? I asked my young bride (Elaine) and she says that she went to work but left me a flask of coffee and a pack up (just like work lol) after feeding me breakfast and said i stayed in bed till she got home for the first week and she also said that the first time i went out was Xmas Eve…[Read more]

  • Hi Tina

    Yes it does get you down,I felt things would never improve always worrying about Slim,and I am just the carer,you have been through so much,it is expected,but there is only one way to go,and thats Tom,s way.
    The expectation that things will improve on a day to day bases does not happen,often felt Slim was taking one step forward and…[Read more]

  • tom replied to the topic Coming to terms in the forum Newcomers 12 years, 12 months ago

    Hi Karen

    Yep it looks like its going the correct way 😀 and as for the Chemo brain hey am a mere male I have had that for years (or so am told lol)
    Am sure the MRI will be fine i have had a cough for years i think and it varies in degree of roughness he he.

    I am doing great thanks, but I have always tried to beat it andnot bother too…[Read more]

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