My Bladder Cancer Journey

A series of thoughts and ramblings on being diagnosed with and the subsequent treatment of Bladder Cancer. I am NOT a doctor, these notes are my own experiences and thoughts - always seek medical attention from a professional. NEW to this site - Please Start Here http://my-bladder-cancer-journey.blogspot.co.uk/p/start-here.html

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Setting goals and targets

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That is my next task. I have some high level things I want to get done and I have a number of "to do" lists lying around and not ...

Thursday Evening

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And still there is an urgency about needing to go to the toilet and whilst it isn't pain I'm feeling, it is certainly a tingling . ...
Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Settling back down again

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I find this whole thing far more traumatic than I ever used to before. It does mightily p*ss me off the way people behave these days. Far ...

That's better

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A lot better. At last I've actually managed to get on and do some things this morning and get letters and files sorted and to begin to ...

By the time

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I got to sleep it must have been 3 or later. I'm up this morning and feeling a lot better than yesterday and ready to tackle the ever g...

Wide awake

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At 1 in the morning and it is probably down to the extra long lie in I had on Tuesday. I'm still quite sore - it almost feels as if it w...
Tuesday, January 29, 2008

One down two to go hopefully not like that

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Ouch, the catheter hurt or rather stung this time and it was a little eye watering to say the least - it leaves you slightly bent over and w...
Monday, January 28, 2008

Preparations are over

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now I am ready to get going to the Hospital. The good news about that is that it is very close by and so it doesn't mean that I am hangi...

Next steps

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I've got my appointment letter and my stress balls ready to go and my tablets are by my bed along with my MP3 player and notepad and pen...

Here we go

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I have to have eaten and had my last drink by midday so that I can "last" 2 hours with the BCG inside me. So lunch will be around...

Time to move on

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I really did fancy lying in this morning but got up anyway and decided that somehow and someway I need to move on. Now that sounds a strang...
Sunday, January 27, 2008

it's all a matter of routine and being prepared

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Tomorrow will be a build up of a series of routines that I commenced when I first started having the treatments and the things I learnt abou...

Build up begins

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No matter how many times you go through the treatments and how routine they become there is still the matter that you know they are coming a...
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Saturday, January 26, 2008

Living with something dangerous

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Not the wife! Worse than that :-) No really, I'm still not sure that it ever sunk in how downright dangerous this all was or how close i...

That's much better

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A good night's sleep and I'm back to my usual self. I need to make sure that I'm not doing that again in a hurry. I suppose ...
Friday, January 25, 2008

A Lot better now

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Thank goodness for that - I felt so tired. I had another hour and went to the meeting which, fueled by Adrenaline, meant that I got through ...

Not as young as I used to be

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All very well to be up in town and to go out to a number of nice and not so nice places but, oh dear - getting back in the early hours wasn...
Thursday, January 24, 2008

Enough of the deep and meaningful

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I'm going to head out a little early to London so I can have a long walk and see some of the sights and take it easy rather than rushing...
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A reunion of sorts

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Last October we met up and decided that we ought not to be rushing to get home late at night the next time we meet. We all used to work for...
Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Kubler Ross revisited

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Elizabeth Kubler Ross and the model for death and bereavement counselling, personal change and trauma. I've made notes about this before...
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