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Hi, I had my mastectomy with immediate reconstruction on 1st December last. Everything was going ok but for the last few days it has been getting sore and red. I thought I was just imagining it at first or maybe it was the cold but it's been getting sorer. Thankfully I had an appointment with the surgeon set for today anyway so I didn't panic. The dr was very concerned and said it looks like a serious infection. He said it was very unusual at my stage and, if it was going to happen, it would usually happen in the first few weeks. He put me on the strongest possible antibiotic and if I develop a fever or feel sick I have to go straight to A&E. I have to go back next week and if it's still the same they will take me back into hospital. Now my brain is in overload... could it have something to do with the cancer coming back.... is my body rejecting the implant.... I got such a shock as I though everything was going so well I hadn't imagined anything that sounds as serious as this sounds. I contacted my breast care nurse when I got home and they said just not to panic. I asked about implant rejection etc. and they just said not to start going down that road at the moment but I can't help it. I'll be ok if it's not the cancer but if it is likely I will need another operation to have the implant removed I think I'll be leaving it out! Why was the dr so alarmed about going straight to A&E? Has this happened to anyone else. I'll be 10 weeks post op next Monday. Thanks. Aileen

Hi, I am new here and just wondering if anyone else is BrCa positive and looking for a support group? I am trying to make contact with anyone who would like someone else in the same boat to talk to. I think Action Breast Cancer is looking into starting a group but I'm sure that will take time and would like to talk to others in the interim. Regards, Flo.

Was recently diagnosed with this form of leukemia does anyone have any info on it?

All for you Take my strength, lean on me. Use it to be as strong, as your fight needs to be. Take my smile, that I force upon my face. Made helpless by the fact, I have no way to take your place. Take my sense of humor, take as much as you can. Laughing at what life throws at you, is really your best plan. Lastly, take my love for you, take extra, and put it in your heart on a shelf. For the days that lie ahead when you can't gather the courage to love yourself. I love you.

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Hello everyone. I thought that anyone about to embarke their chemo journey with the above drug should know the up to date info. This has happend to me and others. It is possible that Taxotere can leave you permantley bald. It doesnt happen to many, thankfully, but if it can happen to me and others then...... I have written about my story and will shortly add the letter i have recieved from Sanofi Aventis admitting that it can happen. If you would like more info please read my blog. I only started it yesterday so in the early stages. http://taxoterehairloss.blogspot.com/ I hope we are allowed relevent links onto our pages admin? Thank you for reading my thread.

hay there i am twenty seven years old and was diagnoised with colo-rectal cancer last september, it was compleatly out of the blue, there was no symptoms or discomfort and was lucky that it was picked up by colonoscopy. To say the least its been a crazy few months, chimo and radio and an opp in janurary. the only way i can discribe how i feel is that i feel confused, everything is new, i am doing good, living day to day, healing surely but SLOWLY, and realising that it can always be worse, its just .... well confusing just wondering if there was anyone else who is just bemused by the whole thing. wishing everyone here all the very very best, andi

My dad is dying of tongue cancer and it's horrible to watch. I've seen an independent, intelligent, kind, caring, happy and strong man crumble to someone to a frail and distant version of himself. Dad had a wonderful life and had an extremely was an extremely successful chef and entrepreneur. A man who's life revolved around food now has to rely on a tube for nourishment. A man who enjoyed going for country walks and rambles with his children and the dog can now walk little further than to the front door and it kills me. He is the kindest most genuine human being I have ever met and has the biggest heart in the world for both humans and animals. I have always admired him and grown up so close to him. He was my rock and now the closest person in the world to me is dying. I can't accept it and I don't know how to deal with it. I find I just can't open up to my friends or family properly. I can't open up to anyone. The worst part is that I seem to be removing myself from Dad. I try and get out of the house every evening or go up to my room and on the weekends I make sure I have plans to go out so as not to be at home. It's like I'm pushing myself away from him but I don't know why. This time is precious and I do know that I have little time with him but I think it's almost a coping mechanism or something. I love my Dad so so much and I know he wants me around more. I find myself snappy at times and at other times just convulsively crying in my room. I live at home with my Dad and my mum but I don't, nor have I ever gotten on so well with my mum. We fight all the time and I can barely stand to be in the same room with her for a period of time. What makes me hate her so much I think is that she treats Dad like a patient - she's a nurse! She coddles him and is often uses condescending gestures and words to him and he hates it, especially as such a formerly independent and proud man. But he feels he owes it to her for her care and is too weak for an argument over it. My half-sister, whom i love dearly is a doctor but my mother will not listen to anything she has to say. My mother, being a nurse thinks she knows best. However, she managed to miss a near-fatal infection dad had a few months ago that was only brought to the fore when my sister came home after I rang her to say Dad was terrible. I don't know if anyone will read this or indeed understand my situation but it would be nice to know that someone might be listening. I think I really need someone professional to talk to but I can't afford it myself and I don't want to ask my mother for the money. I'm afraid of how im pushing dad away and I just don't know how I will cope when i loose him. The thought of him dying makes me feel that my life is not worth living once he's gone. I can't cope.

Hi, I'm hoping to contact someone in the Tallaght area who has experience with throat cancer and coming to terms with using a peg. I would be very grateful if anyone can help. Thanks.

Hi, I lost my Mum on Jan 26 2009. She had ovarian cancer. It was diagnosed in July 2007. She had seen a gynaecologist twice during the previous year. I suppose what I want to say is if you know something isn't right, keep persisting. Ovarian cancer symptoms are so vague, it is very hard to diagnose. If I had known then what I know now, I would have insisted on tests being done sooner. Anyway, she's gone now; nothing we can do about that. I would like information on the symptoms etc. to be made more available to the general public. Any ideas?