Monday 23 February 2015

Onc. appt. and a Cancer Cluster

Hi all, a quick up date on the results of the latest CT scan and its good I'm still in the stable mabel so can't grumble at that, they will continue to keep an eye on me and scan me etc. No real moans about the appt. either which makes a change the registrar that delivered the news was very nice and very happy to give me some good news. So all is ok at the moment.

Now on the subject of Cancer Cluster I feel I need to share that I've recently found out that 3 of my  ex work colleagues have also been diagnosed with breast cancer 2 of us with secondary breast cancer. This news has floored me!! Could it be down to where you work which in some way has caused cancer? I keep asking myself is it just a coincidence and just cannot accept that this is so. We all worked in an small open plan office at the back of a very old tudor building for around 6 years, I worked as a designer on an old style Mac and the others were proof readers who sat behind me. One of whom is currently fighting for her life as the bastard has spread onto her brain. We're all around the same age. I worked there from my mid to late 30's and then moved down to Devon where I continued to work for the same company. So, what to do about this ummm...... so I've been advised by a fellow breast cancer patient to contact the Alliance for Cancer Prevention Authority here's there link http://allianceforcancerprevention.org.uk/#!/about/ and tell them the story. I'm also contacting former employee's to find out if there is anyone else who has had a breast cancer dx who worked in the same office. Once I've collated the information I will work out what to do about this. I can't leave this alone its just too much of a coincidence and if when we get to the bottom of this it does work out that I was working in a ticking cancer bomb heads will fucking roll. I owe it to myself and all the other women who have worked there and have or are unfortunate to develop breast cancer and all the women that haven't worked there but are going to, someone has to do something and that someone is clearly me.

Here's a link to a famous breast cancer cluster in Australia where 20 women were dx all working for the ABC media corporation in the same building. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBqYNysfBlo
and another about a group of men nearly 40!! based in an American arm camp all dx with breast cancer
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/05/camp-lejeune-marines-breast-cancer-florence-williams

Wednesday 18 February 2015

Prolapsed WTF!

Ok this is a difficult post to write and I can't quite believe its happening to me BUT I've now got a prolapsed uterus again another secondary cause from a) being in menopause early b) continued cancer treatments ie: hormonal as lack of oestrogen can also cause it c) coughing so bad over xmas and new year that I've strained myself and think this is what finally caused it. I'd been feeling that things weren't right uh humm....... in the nether regions for a while and realised after some research on the net what it actually was. I'd found that something was sticking out where it never did before a sort of dare I say it lump....... as you can imagine finding any type of lump anywhere on my body tends to freak me out! I did mention this to my GP who decided to ignore this particular problem and chose to deal with the other things on my list as long as your arm. I've got a Onc. appt. this Friday morning for results of latest CT scan so will be mentioning this to them if they don't deal with it then I suppose I'll have to ask either GP or Onc. to refer me to Gyno dept. WTF this fucking disease just keeps on giving doesn't it? So been doing my pelvic floor exercises as many times a day as is humanely possible in a the vain hope that I can avoid any further surgery, I'm shitting myself over this one urghhhhhhh......

Will keep you all posted on this and the results of my latest CT scan.

Wednesday 11 February 2015

New drug for Secondary Breast Cancer patients

Just came across this article it seems someone somewhere hasn't forgotten about us secondary breast cancer patients a new drug has been developed whoop whoop read about it via this link

Katie Hopkins and her views on Breast Cancer Survivors...

Personal scathing attacks is not something I would ever of dreamed of doing on this blog or any other blog for that matter but the vile piece of shit that is Katie Hopkins deserves all she's going to get from this post.

Just watched Loose Women the guest was recent CBB runner-up Katie Hopkins the acid tongued viper Apprentice reject whose sole purpose in life is to rub everyone up the wrong way. How have we allowed this shallow bitch the platform in which to air her views. It's is beyond me....

Coleen Nolan pushed Hopkins on the point that when her sister Linda Nolan was in the CBB house she was constantly picked on by the vile Hopkins troll with tweets on how "Linda had a fat arm", or about her "breast hanging down to her knees" when pushed further about these comments in relation to the fact that Linda Nolan has a fat arm because she has Lymphedema and sagging breast all due to Breast Cancer and its treatments Hopkins would try to shout people down and suggest that she had too put up with horrible comments about her persona on a daily basis she still wouldn't answer why she had to pick up on the damming effects left behind by Breast Cancer she visibly squirmed when asked directly by Janet Street-Porter " do you think that telling a breast cancer patient she has droopy breast is a constructive criticism" she couldn't think quickly enough how she could get out of answering that question. I believe this has shown her for what she truly is  she has no compassion or sympathies for those less fortunate than herself, no one was asking her to like Linda Nolan but to accept graciously that in this instance those terrible comments about Linda's arm and breast were wrong and that she should of apologised for making such uninformed and cruel statements. Hopkins didn't of course apologise she continued to exclaim how she has no regrets I think the ramifications of exposing herself on this programme will be far reaching and I hope she gets her just rewards for her callous remarks.

I found it strange that Hopkins was placed in the middle of the panel flanked either side by women who have been touched directly by breast cancer. Coleen Nolan has sisters either die or suffered by breast cancer and Gloria Hunniford's daughter Caron Keating died of the disease as a young women, even faced with this breast cancer sandwich she still continued to defend her corner rather than apologise.  Hopkins thinks she is immune from disease or the effects of a life threatening illness like getting fat or having Lymphedema she is however just another fragile human being beware Katie Hopkins for this disease can strike the fittest, skinniest people on the planet you have been warned.