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- Wed May 15, 2019 6:59 pm
- Forum: Family, friends and carers
- Topic: This cruel disease
- Replies: 105
- Views: 91497
Re: This cruel disease
Hi Theresa We lost Kerry on 4th May. She was out shopping with her Mum, came home exhausted and fed up and told me she'd had enough of the struggle. She died nine days later. It was a mercifully quick deterioration and she was only in the hospice for just over 36 hours. The bulk of her last few days...
- Thu Mar 28, 2019 6:11 pm
- Forum: Family, friends and carers
- Topic: This cruel disease
- Replies: 105
- Views: 91497
Re: This cruel disease
Thank you to everybody for the kind words and wishes. I read them all and pass them on. It's 4 weeks since any treatment, and what a transformation. It's incredible and not what we expected. Kerry got her appetite for food and just as importantly, her appetite for being active back within the first ...
- Tue Mar 19, 2019 9:31 pm
- Forum: Family, friends and carers
- Topic: This cruel disease
- Replies: 105
- Views: 91497
Re: This cruel disease
So, here I am, writing one of messages that I knew I would have to write sooner or later. The Folfirinox is not making any difference. I had already worked that out and so had Kerry. She has lost so much weight since January. Whereas with the Gemcitabine she was able to carry on as normal, she has b...
- Mon Mar 11, 2019 7:40 pm
- Forum: Family, friends and carers
- Topic: This cruel disease
- Replies: 105
- Views: 91497
Re: This cruel disease
Dandygal76 wrote: > Hi Keith - I have accidentally caught up on your thread when researching a > complaint I have re my fathers treatment privately > (Removed - moderator). I just wanted to say that our GP got dad's Ca-19 markers for > us. We were close to our GP but it is available outside of the h...
- Mon Mar 11, 2019 7:35 pm
- Forum: Family, friends and carers
- Topic: This cruel disease
- Replies: 105
- Views: 91497
Re: This cruel disease
Hi All Kerry is doing OK overall I think. The side effects are not as harsh as the first two rounds, although she now experiences neuropathy for the first couple of days after a dose and has to avoid the cold like the plague. We have bought numerous things to keep her wrapped up warm and safe. She d...
- Tue Feb 26, 2019 10:07 pm
- Forum: Family, friends and carers
- Topic: This cruel disease
- Replies: 105
- Views: 91497
Re: This cruel disease
Nurse Jeni and the Nurses Thank you so much for the kindness you have shown to me and all of the other patients and their families and friends. I love this friendly little forum so much. I pass on every little bit of encouragement and every good wish from everybody here. We've had round 3 and finger...
- Sun Feb 17, 2019 8:11 pm
- Forum: Family, friends and carers
- Topic: This cruel disease
- Replies: 105
- Views: 91497
Re: This cruel disease
Before I mention my Daughter, Kerry, let me just say that I am still in shock about Erika. I had assumed (as I'm sure others had) that the Nanoknife treatment would give her an appreciable amount of time to carry on fighting. Although, I did see her post about Ascites, and that did set alarm bells r...
- Thu Feb 14, 2019 8:12 pm
- Forum: Advanced pancreatic cancer
- Topic: RIP Erika xxx
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6530
Re: RIP Erika xxx
This is awful news I have been looking out for her posts and I was wondering where she had got to. I took strength from her messages of good luck and passed every single one of them on without fail. I never had the privilege of meeting her, but I saw her as a wonderful inspiration and a positive and...
- Thu Feb 14, 2019 6:52 pm
- Forum: Family, friends and carers
- Topic: Options for my mum
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4881
Re: Options for my mum
Hi Ozoda I can't tell you what to do as this type of decision is so very personal and different to each and every individual and their families. My Daughter was 34 when she was diagnosed as stage IV in March 2018. She had metastases to her liver and lymph nodes. She was put on Gemcitabine and Abraxa...
- Thu Feb 07, 2019 10:16 pm
- Forum: Family, friends and carers
- Topic: This cruel disease
- Replies: 105
- Views: 91497
Re: This cruel disease
Hi Theresa Good news about your scan results! You seem to be taking a similar road to Kerry in terms of responding to treatment. She also had an essentially immediate positive response that was far better than the "no significant growth" that we were told to hope for. By the time she had completed 9...
- Sat Feb 02, 2019 8:51 pm
- Forum: Patient Experience Forum
- Topic: Nano knife for Stage IV PC.
- Replies: 41
- Views: 35052
Re: Nano knife for Stage IV PC.
Erika, I thank you so much for your support and determination, despite your own battles with this awful disease. I really hope that you're recovering from your operation and that the ascites isn't making life too difficult. My Father lived with ascites for almost 4 years. He used to joke about havin...
- Sat Feb 02, 2019 7:53 pm
- Forum: Advanced pancreatic cancer
- Topic: Newly diagnosed ... first post
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5594
Re: Newly diagnosed ... first post
Hi Finchy Don't give up. Some may think that's easy for me to say (nobody on this forum to be clear) as I don't have Pancreatic Cancer. But my Daughter does, and everything that she suffers, we suffer with her in the only way that we can. She is stage IV with metastases to her liver. She went from a...
- Thu Jan 24, 2019 9:35 pm
- Forum: Patient Experience Forum
- Topic: Nano knife for Stage IV PC.
- Replies: 41
- Views: 35052
Re: Nano knife for Stage IV PC.
Hi Erika It's good to hear from you. I was wondering how you were getting on. Our Oncologist told us that the Nano knife treatment was entirely inappropriate for a cancer like Kerry's. I have asked around and it seems to be the staging that drives that opinion in this country. Apparently the fact th...
- Wed Jan 23, 2019 8:38 pm
- Forum: Advanced pancreatic cancer
- Topic: Disapointed
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5539
Re: Disapointed
Chin up Theresa Kerry has had at least two scan results given over the phone to her, so it can be done. Perhaps it's a local policy for the hospital that you attend. If it is, it's an incredibly insensitive and unkind thing to do to make you wait yet another two weeks. It's not as if you're waiting ...
- Tue Jan 22, 2019 9:05 pm
- Forum: Advanced pancreatic cancer
- Topic: positive thoughts
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4174
Re: positive thoughts
Good luck tomorrow Theresa. Our Oncologist has always told Kerry that if she is feeling well and essentially leading a normal life then that is a good sign regarding the activity levels of the cancer. That has proven to be the case every time for us thus far. Eating well and gaining weight are both ...