Ok guys, you will if you visit here regularly be aware of the TP situation. For those of you not familiar TP stands for 'The Patient' and is my father, the history can be found here.
Well, a few weeks ago TP had his one year follow up oncology appointment and all appeared to be going remarkably well.
Unfortunately, as per the law of sod, yesterday, quite suddenly, we learned after a long day at hospital that is far from the case.
I won't bore you with details and TP is anyway a very private individual and wouldn't want his medical history 'out there' but suffice to say, things are not good and treatment is very unlikely to be possible.
That's it then, you know what's going on in the background but I won't be saying much about it here, for a while at least it's 'chin up and shoulders back' but you will understand if I am a little more peculiar on occasion than usual!
F*ck!
Showing posts with label Oncology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oncology. Show all posts
Thursday, 30 July 2009
Sunday, 14 June 2009
One year on - Kicking cancer
Those of you who visit here loyally and regularly will recall perhaps this post a while back documenting the ongoing recovery of 'TP' from a rarely survivable form of cancer.
Well, it's been a year since he underwent very major surgery to begin the process of attempting to eradicate those particularly nasty little cells from where they had decided to set up home!
It's been a yea
r of very significant ups and downs, of hospital visits so numerable that one almost requires a P.A. to keep a track of them all to ensure attendance at the appropriate time, of so many meds we have to have charts to keep track, of disruption and sleepless nights...and of course my being royally dumped in the middle of it all just to add to everyone's stresses and upset (nice timing!) but thus far it has all paid off pretty impressively. There's still a way to go, TP has to undergo one more small surgery next week and the original surgery has quite some impact on lifestyle but much has been achieved in the year since it all began.
What prompted this post? Well, we attended The Churchill Hospital in Oxford (don't mention the parking issues!)on Friday for the first of the 'one year' checks and TP passed with flying colours, there are more to come of course, the most scary of which is the one year scan in a month or two, but so far so good.
We all know of course that those in the know in professional oncology circles never make promises, never talk of cure and hate to offer prognoses but it's looking good to date and the odds have already been beaten by a mile.
*For the history follow this link.
*For the image see here.
Well, it's been a year since he underwent very major surgery to begin the process of attempting to eradicate those particularly nasty little cells from where they had decided to set up home!
It's been a yea
r of very significant ups and downs, of hospital visits so numerable that one almost requires a P.A. to keep a track of them all to ensure attendance at the appropriate time, of so many meds we have to have charts to keep track, of disruption and sleepless nights...and of course my being royally dumped in the middle of it all just to add to everyone's stresses and upset (nice timing!) but thus far it has all paid off pretty impressively. There's still a way to go, TP has to undergo one more small surgery next week and the original surgery has quite some impact on lifestyle but much has been achieved in the year since it all began.What prompted this post? Well, we attended The Churchill Hospital in Oxford (don't mention the parking issues!)on Friday for the first of the 'one year' checks and TP passed with flying colours, there are more to come of course, the most scary of which is the one year scan in a month or two, but so far so good.
We all know of course that those in the know in professional oncology circles never make promises, never talk of cure and hate to offer prognoses but it's looking good to date and the odds have already been beaten by a mile.
*For the history follow this link.
*For the image see here.
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