Tuscany here we come!

My wife and I are travelling to Tuscany for a week, to wander around the hill towns. We decided to take out travel insurance and after several long phone calls answering the same questions over and over again, we found SAGA were able to provide us with insurance cover at the lowest price.

In my case the questions piled up,…[Read more]

Generally things are getting better, my bloods are back to normal and I am on a holding regime of Revlamid. There are just a few remaining clots in my lungs but nowt to worry about.
At the start of December I was back in hospital with pneumonia. When my temperature spiked and my blood pressure went down by a third, I thought this was my…[Read more]

My history in brief is diagnosed with MM twelve months ago, swiftly followed by pulmonary embolism the cancer on bowel was discovered six months ago. My first two cycles of treatment were CVD plus daily injections of Fragmin to thin my blood and monthly drip of zemeta. Next two cycles have been Revlamid and Dex. Plus, of course, pills…[Read more]

I was diagnosed with MM in November and treatment was organised by the Consultant at the MacMillan Centre to start within a couple of weeks. It became a bit more complex because I promptly had a pulmonary embolism but start they did.

Like Richard, I am surprised that you have still not started chemo. Have you had any treatment? I think…[Read more]

That’s what I blame for my myeloma, pulmonary embolism and bowel cancer.

It was good, though, wasn’t it. Those were tha days……

Don aka The Cancer Pensioner

We are all different yet all in the same boat. My MM was diagnosed in November but I had a pulmonary embolism before treatment started. When I learned that 74% of my blood cells were cancerous, I thought the end was nigh. As I am almost eighty, SCT was not really an option.
Progress on VCD was slow and I was switched to…[Read more]

Just to add my sixpenny worth to the comments.

Getting the news that you have MM is a heart stopping moment and your world seems to implode. Do try to draw some comfort that there are many of us here that have been through the same early stages. Somehow we all cope and things are rarely as bad as they seem.

Keep telling us on your…[Read more]

Assuming that the operation has totally removed tha cancer in my bowel, we can focus on getting the myeloma into remission. That’s my next target.

If you think about it, we set targets throughout our lives and achieving them can give a great sense of satisfaction.

How about these.

At four years, getting through the night without…[Read more]

The news is that The Bad Penny has turned up, replete with irritating jokes.

I can’t bore you with details of the operation for I was in the Land of Nod and remember nothing. The aftercare was tremendous, from consultant down to cleaner. For this operation the hospital…[Read more]

Here is the story so far of the travailles of a man in his eightieth year.

A couple of years ago, I had a recurrence of Giant Cell Arteritis.

This was not good news.

The medication starts with taking a large daily dose of Prednisolone, and this is gradually reduced so that towards the end of last year, I was taking 5mg…[Read more]