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Thanks for your continuing thoughts and good wishes. Mrs Bels is fine, and so are the Babybels.

My recent oncologist consultation has made me more cheerful. I've now posted an update about this.

A1050986 - Scroll down to, or search for, 22 May.

I've just read your entry and like your attitude. My dad had throat cancer about 2 years ago, thankfully he didn't have any secondary tumours, but he did have an attitude. It was just like yours and your oncologists, he wasn't sick he just had a tumour. This helped him immensely. While the rest of the family was getting sick with colds and flus, he was getting treatment. When we went to visit him he took us for long walks and exhausted us. He was amazing and it was all in his attitude.

So remember to maintain your fighting spirit and know that we are all here for you to increase your strength.

Hugs and chocolate,
Ythika

I can't do anything apart from post a random gif of a hug. I'm thinking of your

Oh and I know this sounds hidously selfish, but I can't help feeling that reading your story will help me explain things in the future to patients. SOrry that sounds really self centred doesn't it?

Z,
I hope Bels doesn't mind me saying this but I think if you can help someone from his experience it is a good thing not a selfish thing.

Ythika

I agree with Ythika. I can see no harm coming out of this entry, only good. I am writing it for mostly selfish reasons, you know, but that doesn't stop it being of some benefit to someone in some way, shape or form. Paradoxically, sometimes looking after yourself can be a good way of helping others as well. In this case, for example, I know that staying as positive and cheerful as possible will be a good way of helping my close family through what must be a very distressing situation for them. This is also selfish, because a dispirited family would not be what I need when I'm needing support. And so it goes, back and forth.

Z, the question of how medics relate to patients in this situation is very interesting to me. I've been watching them closely as they've been telling me what they had to tell me. Obviously I've been speaking to some very senior, experienced guys, and I notice how they've developed a style for dealing with these things. They grow a carapace - I guess it's one of the things that comes with experience.

A lot depends on the individual patient. How intelligent they are, how with-it they are, how much they want to be told, how much they prefer to be left unsaid. Some patients are curious about all the details, but some just don't want to know. Some can cope with a lot of technical terms, while to others it's just gobbledygook.

Your writings have certainly made me less worried about my own colonoscopy next week Bels, the results shouldn't (we hope) be as drastic though.

and to all the Bels

Let's hope you're just fine, daSilva. Here's to your very good health

Good IdeaI hope and think, it will help in more ways & people than one

Bels, I've got Crohn's Disease & Grandad's got ulcerative colitis (two loos in this house ).

Don't you find the worst thing about colonoscopies is wanting to tell the doctor where to shove it only to find he already has?

I'm here for you

The worst thing about colonoscopies is discovering in the middle of the procedure that one is _severely_ allergic to one of the drugs that have been administered.

Of course, I have no memory of the whole event, other than after the second dose, of something else that time, of being in pain and having to really, really try to tell the doctor that I was conscious and stuff.

Just glad the darned thing paid off, we found out what was wrong with me

loobrush for Bels

cheers ismarah

hiyyyaaa bels..&peeps

i hope u dont mind me postin ere,ony i stumbled upon this thread by bein in lurk mode..
the thread subject is something id like 2understand more about..coz my dad died of it 2yrs ago...n very sudden...he was taken in2 hospital on the thursday nite..we found out he had cancer on the friday afternoon..he died on the monday...so it all happened very suddenly...but if u dont mind me readin ur notes,it might help me 2b able 2deal with it better,& 2understand the symptoms more,n try recollect wen my dad started with the symptoms...

but uv got 2think positive,,people do survive this kinda cancer,,be strong,keep smiling
i hope ive not offened u in anyway..

thinkin bout u..huge 2 u bel...

EM--XXXXX

You know, it's really great getting all this support from all you lovely people.



I done a further update to A1050986 - find 2 June.

bels i hope u dont mind if
>>>>>>>>u n give u a huge evry once in a while......


EM------...

Bels, you have an amazing sense of humour. Make sure it stays intact.


Ythika

I think it is a wonderful idea.
You never know who you will be helping and vice versa.

Hang on in there bels...and dont forget to keep usp todate as your condition improves!

Stephen

>> so are the Babybels
Cute!

Small, round, and cheesy.

Hi Bels! I'm glad to see you have 'incurable optimisit' in your title. I've had those words at the start of my home page since I joined h2g2.

My mother died of bowel cancer. In ten years I will be the same age as she was when she started to suffer. So I think of it quite a lot and my heart goes out to you. But between my optimism and yours, there shouldn't be a problem. The treatment will cure it.

All the best. I'll keep an eye on this thread.

Bels, I've just came across this thread. I'd also like to commend you on a fabulous entry, it's wonderfully written

Queegle