Ironman

Had previously booked a spa break this weekend with friends for our 60th birthday's. We had a lovely time but my massage could not go ahead properly due to the cancer, she would only do a very soft, hair massage. When I got home Sunday lunchtime I slept solidly for over 5 hours. The anemia is making me so much more tired than I usually am. 

Tommy has brought me to the QEII hospital today for an intravenous Iron Infusion, hopefully after sitting here for an hour I will feel so fit and literally Pumped with Iron. 

Hey, Today I completed my first ever IRON, man

CT scan

Have had more bloods taken, a biopsy of the cancer, and have been given an appointment next week for a cat scan to see if the cancer had gone to the lymph nodes or liver or is contained within the colon. It is a 4cm mass, but, unlike my first cancer, it is not graded by size.

I am feeling very fatigued and getting more easily breathless with occasional heart palpitations. 

Dogs cannot operate an MRI machine… 

But CATScan!

Popeye

Had a call today from my support nurses saying that I will be booked in for an Iron Transfusion as I am anemic. It is a trait of the cancer, having the transfusion will help me through the next stages. 

Hat trick

So here we go again! 

Just been given my 3rd Cancer diagnosis. 

2012 Breast cancer.

2021 Womb cancer.

2026 Colon cancer.

Hasta la vista, baby

It looks like I have been shot by a robot 5 times. 

I’ve been well and truly stitched up!

When I told Tommy that I was off to the Theatre, he asked what I was going to see. Womb with a View of course! Or perhaps Panic Womb, the most apt would be Escape Womb!

Yesterday I received so many well wishes, but this message below in black I have to share with you…

If I had not been invited for my cervical screening, previously called the ‘smear test’ I would not have discovered this Endometrial Cancer. When I had my radiotherapy 9 years ago it put me into false menopause. Now the NHS will test anyone with post menopausal bleeding within 2 weeks. My cervical screening was 2 months ago to the day… now I am all done and dusted. 

They will do a biopsy on the bits removed, just to make sure that the cancer has not spread beyond the womb muscle walls, but this is usually a very slow developing, self contained cancer, so should be all gone now. 

Do you know what really makes me smile?

Facial muscles

Going to the Theatre

The NHS has been so wonderful. After a MRI scan showed Cancer of the womb  (Cancer of the uterus / Endoscopic Cancer) I was quickly booked in for a full robotic hysterectomy. On Thursday 9th September 2012, I went to Lister Hospital, Stevenage. I had done the COVID test. As mine was the biggest operation, I was booked in first. Walked down the the theatre where I met the anaesthetist, lay down in the vast white room under the large lights. Weird to think that my consultant who would be carrying out the operation would be nowhere near me but on a computer in the corner of the room!

 Woke up some time later and was wheeled to a ward of four ladies. I slept on an off for about 12 hours. Tommy did come to visit me, but I was very sleepy and a bit out of it. 

 The doctor came round the next day and said that it had all been a success and that I could go home, I could not believe how quickly I had been discharged. I have 5 wounds on my stomach, and just taking paracetamol, no morphine needed.

 For Nine years now I have now been on Tamoxifen which has kept any breast cancer at bay. One of the side effects of it is that it can cause cancer of the womb.. yep, I’ve got it. But would not advise anyone not to take tamoxifen as womb cancer is usually not as invasive and quick spreading as breast cancer.