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Yes, Bels, it's a while since we heard from you! I hope everything is going as well as can be managed...



Azara

Hello, sorry I haven't been back sooner, but I haven't been feeling too good and things haven't been going as well as I would have liked. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I'm going to be starting another round of chemotherapy, this time with capecitabine (which I had last time) and oxaliplatin, which contains an atom of platinum which is supposed to poison the tumour, but has some rather strange side-effects. So we'll have to see what happens over the next two to three months.

Our thoughts are with you Bels - it's good to hear from you. Hope the platinum atom doesn't give you too hard a time.
s to you and the family - and, as usual, a hefty kick up the jaxsie to Mr Tumour and his minions.

Best wish's for the treatment, hope it all goes well, and you avoid the nasty side effects

I am sorry to find that all isn't going quite to plan, but I shall keep my fingers crossed that my favourite metal turns things around.

with the treatment bels...thinking of you..
to you,,mrs bels,,&baby bels.


Em
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hi again Bels,

All best wishes with the new treatment.

much love,
az

Hi Bels. Sorry to hear about the setback. Life really is an arse. My two friends are being as stoic as you, but it isn't easy. Gwendoline now suffers from serious short term memory loss, she joshes that if they have to cut any more away she won't even be able to remember her name...but it is tricky. She popped into see me this evening and didn't tell the family where she was. I should have realised but didn't and they almost had an APB out on her., scary.
Patrick had a major reality check today as well. he met a friend who he hadn't seen for a long time and who had lost rather a lot of weight.
'You've lost weight' he says.

'Yes I've got lung cancer only a few weeks to go old chap' replies friend.
We had a nice dinner and decided that finite is better than remission which should actualy be called pergatory.

Good to see you are still posting and they haven't managed to remove the sense of humour gene yet!
Take care
boots

Thinking of you, Bels!
Best of luck with your next round of treatments

Thinking of you Bels, hoping things are going better.

Yes, it's been awhile since we've heard from you, Bels. Hope you are holding up well. Doing well. Sending all my best wishes.

and a

az

Finally managed to beat single sign on at w*rk!

Thought I'd come here first and wish you well with your treatment, Bels.

to you and your family.

F

Hi Bels. I took the liberty of subscribing to this thread a few months ago and have been following your progress. I thought it was about time I said 'hello' and sent my best wishes to you and yours.

Thinking of you.

Hi Bels, we have never spoken before but I came across this convo and subscribed to keep up-to-date on your progress. Keep up the good work and thank you for letting us in, it seems less of a scary mystery to me now. Still scary though!

Hi Bels

As you can see, we're still all thinking of you and hoping that you're coping with whatever's going on.
Love T

Hello again everybody. Sorry I've been offline for so long. Things have been quite tough, but just recently have started improving just a little, a couple of weeks after I started with this platinum treatment, and I can tell you that even a small improvement is an improvement. I saw the doc yesterday and he confirms that my enlarged liver has reduced quite a bit, so things are going in the right direction and I'm carrying on with this weird platinum stuff.

Thanks ever so much for your continued concern - I really appreciate it even when I don't post.

Bels

Hey dude, I had the whole cancer/ chemo thing a few years ago and so understand what your going through and I send you my best wishes and remember to keep the positive thoughts going and beat that tumours ass with extreme predujice!!

Hey Bels that's great news . keep those spirits up
take care
boots