Tarceva 150mg Day (3)

Spoke too soon yesterday. I received a call at 3.30am from dad who was complaining about a very painful stomach and aching knee. I cave him some warm water with a coupe of co-codamol pils. He settled down and fell asleep after an hour or so. 
The rest of the day he felt ok. There [...]

Returning home

I brought my father home from the hospital today and thank god he is feeling a lot better. The problem  with hospitalization is that for some reason the patient feels worse as time goes on. I just hope he starts to eat regularly at home. I’ll wait a day and slowly begin the nutritional program. [...]

Looking very tired

After yesterdays positive day, dad looked absolutely shattered and weak today. Apparently the nurses had kept him up since 9am and did not allow him to sleep. He had to sit and walk. This was of course to stop any DVT occurring.
The head nurse told me that he needs a lot of encouragement to [...]

The king and his own private room

My fathers surgery was successfully completed today at 3pm. He subsequently received 2 units of blood as his HG levels were 10.1 before the operation.
We managed to see him at 7pm and he was in good spirits. In fact he was in really good spirits. In his happy state he kept singing and saying that [...]

The Tuesday before the Wednesday Surgery

So get this, on Monday evening my mum receives a phone call from some doctor with regards to dads knee surgery. The person tells my mum that dad can not go ahead with the operation as there is an infection detected in the blood test results taken the week before…..
I’m not going to rant on [...]

X-ray & CT scan CD obtained followed by a 3 hour pre-assessment wait

I managed to obtain all four of dad’s x-ray and ct scans today from the NHS hospital. All on CD for a grand total of £50. I’m a little disappointed at the amount being charged, I mean £5 would have been more appropriate. But hey, we are between a wall and a hard place at [...]

The second second orthopaedic opinion

Just as you get indecisive when you spend too long shopping in an outlet village, the world of second second opinions is no different.
Today I accompanied my father to a see a Bupa (Private Healthcare) Orthopedic surgeon for yet another opinion on my fathers pending knee operation. When I say pending, the actual date was [...]

Referrals to the London Oncology Clinic and another Orthopaedic specialist

I have finally received both referral letters from my fathers GP.
One is to arrange a second, second opinion from another Orthopaedic surgeon, this time from Bupa.
The other referral is more importantly for the London Oncology Clinic. Hopefully they will see us soon.
After reading some of the advise from Dr. West and also some responses from [...]

Cancer Forums

I have posted a little request for more information on www.cancerforums.net. I have been very grateful for the replies received.
Please check out the post http://cancerforums.net/about7167.html

The Results – Part 1

After an anxious wait of 10 days, the PET scan results were finally revealed to us yesterday.
Now you would think, the results would have been revealed to us from someone we knew, such as the lung specialists or the respiratory nurse, or even an Oncologist (if we had one). Nope, not this time, as usually [...]