pips

  • Dearest Paula

    I have just returned home from hospital having had my second SCT. I am feeling increasingly weak but

    I just wanted you to know that I am thinking of you and I hope your  treatment at the hospital will work so that you can move to having your SCT and after that life can begin again. Soon you will be able to dance and travel and…[Read more]

  • I am deeply sorry but at least Wendy went away peacefully..

    and as for you …I miss your post but  I don’t want you to relapse …

    I want you to live life to the full as you do..

    I sense your beautiful lively spirit all those years ago and I never forgot you …

    Strangely it felt as I knew you …

  • Dear Jet

    I am so sorry to hear about Wendy.

    I don’t know Wendy but I sense from you,  that she is special and that she means a lot to you.

    I was diagnosed, I think around the same time as you, seven years ago in 2010. I had a stem cell transplant auto, and I remember reading your journey wuth the allo transplant.

    I used to enjoy reading yo…[Read more]

  • pips replied to the topic Diagnosed in June 2017 in the forum Newcomers 6 years, 7 months ago

    Kazza

    It is good news that your mother ‘s current treatment appears to be working well, that is so good as it is not sadly always the case for everyone. So this is in itself something to be celebrated and be grateful for!

    As for the stem cell transplant, it is rough going for a few weeks but after that, once the strength is back, things start to…[Read more]

  • pips replied to the topic Diagnosed in June 2017 in the forum Newcomers 6 years, 7 months ago

    Kazza

    I know how you and your mother may be feeling.

    I was totally terrified when I was first diagnosed with Myeloma.

    I was diagnosed 7 years ago and had a stem cell transplant almost seven years ago now. When I was 49 years of age .

    In the last seven years after my stem cell transplant, I have lived well and almost normally forgetting about…[Read more]

  • pips replied to the topic Being job less in the forum General 6 years, 9 months ago

    Brilliant post..

    I am in the same situation now this week suddenly jobless.

    I have made the decision now to return to work and i am in the process of applying  for early medical retirement. It will be a difficult process no doubt led by HR ..

    Seven years ago it was sheer panic and a turning point in my life when I discovered that I was going…[Read more]

  • pips became a registered member 6 years, 10 months ago