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  • tom replied to the topic PLATELETS in the forum Treatment 14 years ago

    Hi Eve and Slim

    Hope all goes well Today and your in and Out like a Banshee? but to be honest I dont know how fast a banshee is Lol.

    And Eve you must not forget to rest also, treat Slim like a Kid sleep when they do Lol8-)

    Love to you Both

    Tom "Onwards and Upwards" xxx

  • eve replied to the topic PLATELETS in the forum Treatment 14 years ago

    Hi Dai

    Now you know what his hospital is like:-P :'-( >:-(
    1 hr to get there and park!!!we are like a piece of the furniture in the waiting room lol,
    I watch all these new people starting treatment,and they just do not have a clue how much time they will spend in waiting rooms.
    Its not the nurses fault they are just so over whelmed,some of…[Read more]

  • eve replied to the topic My Dad in the forum Newcomers 14 years ago

    Hi Jen

    Did you ask if your Dad had any tumour,s or lesions!!! this could be the pain,but chemo drugs should stop it,you do not say what pain relief your dad is on!!!or how much weight he has lost.
    Slim could not pick up a carry bag with a few items in,
    Jen it all takes time,they know if things are working by the blood results,and kappa light…[Read more]

  • eve replied to the topic PLATELETS in the forum Treatment 14 years ago

    Hi
    Well Friday bloods,Monday bloods Tuesday Platelets early hours took Slim to hospital temp39.Kept in Let out Wednesday evening.Good News Neuts 3.5 Platelets 57. Day off today,back Friday for bloods.:-P
    Seems he was constipated !!!,thought i was keeping a good eye on that one!!!,I think part of problem is spending so much time at hospital,there…[Read more]

  • BADGER replied to the topic Second SCT in the forum Treatment 14 years ago

    Hello Mari

    good luck to you and stephen I am sure it will ago ok so glad stephen is very positive I am sure it helps
    Love Jo x

  • eve replied to the topic Second SCT in the forum Treatment 14 years ago

    Hi Mari

    Go on the holiday,and enjoy it,out of the Myeloma Bubble,between different things Slim and I never managed a holiday,and i truthfully feel a holiday would have been good and relaxed us before it all started.hindsight is a wonderful thing.If we new the future decisions would be easier.8-)

    Second SCT you thought you would not be able…[Read more]

  • Hi!

    If you email Scotty on s.hawkes@added-value.com she will send you an invite to the under-50s group.

    Bella

  • tom replied to the topic Thrush?? in the forum Side-effects 14 years ago

    Lol I could have told you all That "Lucky Elaine" xx lol

  • jmsmyth replied to the topic Thrush?? in the forum Side-effects 14 years ago

    Lucky Elaine 🙂
    Jean

  • tom replied to the topic SCT Colin in the forum Treatment 14 years ago

    Hi Penny

    All the best with your SCT on Monday I have logged onto your Blog ((((I think )) good luck in the road to remission 😀 and ghope its as smooth as mine 😎

    Love and Loads of (((((HUGS))))

    Tom "Onwards and Upwards" xxxx

  • tom replied to the topic Thrush?? in the forum Side-effects 14 years ago

    Lol Jean Honest when I had the "Stand on your bloody Toes" feeling I stood on my toes its not a plesant feeling but if I drunk more water it soon cleared

    Ps I dont do Footy Lol xx

    Love one Thrush Free (so far) Tom "Onwards and Upwards" xxx

  • Hi allison

    You also have had a very rough time and hope that things can only get better. Welcome to our "family" (I'm sure you don't want to be here but they are a great bunch of people). If my hubby gets through CDT he will be having SCT.

    My very best wishes to you
    Jean x

  • tom replied to the topic Wheatgrass in the forum General 14 years ago

    Hi Janet

    Hows you doing see your in remission still 😀 and that good news, not heard from you for a month or two and am pleased you are OK 😎 Not heard anything about Wheatgrass but if its good take it I have started taking "Green Tea" and that is awfull Lol ye I drink it as it says its good for me ???? do I enjoy it???? not likely Lol will…[Read more]

  • jmsmyth replied to the topic Thrush?? in the forum Side-effects 14 years ago

    Tom you do make me laugh. 😛 thanks. It must be bad as he's in bed and not watching football!

    Ta love Jean x

  • tom replied to the topic Thrush?? in the forum Side-effects 14 years ago

    Hi Jean and Frank

    Well thrush?? I dont know?, all I remember is when I was on CDT and sometime when having a wee I used to stand on my tip toe's and say oh oh oh bugger oh bugger (it dint stop the pain?? lol) but My Lead Nurse told me drink more (I took that to mean Red Wine/Vodka?) but it worked 😎 more water and less pain 😉

    Good…[Read more]

  • jmsmyth replied to the topic Thrush?? in the forum Side-effects 14 years ago

    Thanks Dai and David. Franks has been good getting through his water (or at least he tells me) he has also been able to have G & T's

    Thanks again
    Jean x

  • jmsmyth replied to the topic Thrush?? in the forum Side-effects 14 years ago

    Dear Eva, Eve and Jo

    Thanks for your answers. Seeing consultant tomorrow so will put them to her. Frank has just told me that he wants no one to know about the thrush. Is this a man thingg!!

    Eve sorry to hear that Slim is in hospital. Hope he gets out soon, there's no place like your own home. You are so right Eve this is a real steep…[Read more]

  • BADGER replied to the topic Thrush?? in the forum Side-effects 14 years ago

    Hello Jean

    Have they checked Franks sugars large amounts of DEX can temporary rise the levels to high sugars are one of the side effects of thrush I had to have triple my dose of insulin while taking dex to combat it
    Love Jo x

  • eve replied to the topic Thrush?? in the forum Side-effects 14 years ago

    Hi Jean

    Slims had thrush,I think they put it down to not enough fluid,and with there system taking a beating it,s just one of those things.Slim has tablets at the moment in his SCT pack.
    Just got up out of bed,Slims in hospital again,took him in last night,temp up,mainly took him in to check his bloods,They said everything was fine,but kept…[Read more]

  • jmsmyth started the topic Thrush??. in the forum Side-effects 14 years ago

    Hi

    Frank is coming to the end of his first cycle of CDT. We seem to go from one problem to another. He was feeling unwell this morning and phoned his Myeloma nurse. She is going to contact his consultant but she thinks it's thrush. If it is thrush will it interfere with his treatment? I am so worried about all these side effects and I realise…[Read more]

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