Oh no goodness are you going to be alright? Xxx
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Yes thanks Queenie…10 years on and it’s all gone. Meds now take the place of the thyroid which was all removed, so its all good! 
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I don’t think that is a very good analogy .
The expensive clothes you can tear off and indeed would do to enter water .
We can help children in other countries but we can’t save the world at our own expense we are after all animals albeit higher ones and have basic instincts the first being self preservation.
I feel the same Pixie. After surviving cancer because I went immediately to the hospital having found a lump, I would encourage even a stranger to get it checked.
I had a very aggressive cancer and if I hadn’t got early help, I may not have still been here 11 years later.
Cancer cells grow much faster than ordinary cells, so time lost before obtaining treatment usually means a lower chance of survival.
In the news last night a lady with ovarian cancer was given an injection, that hasn’t even been given a name yet, in the hope that it will help her own body to destroy the cancer cells. She was in The Christie hospital near Manchester, which only treats cancer. I was treated there too!
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This is scary for those who haven’t been able to access treatment due to covid and lockdowns.
I’m glad you survived it Twink, its a helluva journey to go through.
As my consultant said " You were so positive about beating it I suspect that cancer was more scared of you than you were of the cancer" 
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Good for you!
I just went into meltdown. It didn’t help that I was misdiagnosed (not officially misdiagnosed, just the doctor didn’t seem to know how to read the report and therefore didn’t actually tell me I had anything wrong with me. It was the consultant who told me because I demanded a second opinion)
A close friend has been fighting it for 6 years, but they have now told her they can offer no further treatment. She has secondary cancers & I think she has had enough now but is grateful for the extra 6 years it gave her.
We have been friends for 60 years so I will miss our weekly phone calls when it happens. In the meantime, we will still chat every week & put the world to right, but she knows there will be a lot of tears when they end!
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Thanks. I told her I may be runover by a bus so she may not be the first to go, because she knows I will miss her!
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She’s still attend Christie’s? Only a couple of miles from me and if you’re ever round my neck of the woods it’d be nice to meet for a cuppa.
She has decided to stay at home, but if I have to go there meeting for a cuppa would be nice. 
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Twink, I’m sorry…60 years is longer than I’ve been alive so I can only imagine what you both must be going through.
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You beat me to it.
@PixieKnuckles … I suspect ‘ecstatic’ is not the word you were thinking of … it’s a horrible business from diagnosis to treatment.
My mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer … she’d always said, all her life, if she ever got anything like that she want us kids to tell her.
When she was feeling ‘off’ and not too well for a few months we took her off to see a specialist … diagnosis … terminal cancer, with 3 to 6 months to live.
She then said she wished we’d never told her she was dying or taken her to see a specialist.
Would I tell a stranger? Definitely not.
I’d have to think twice now about even telling someone dear to me.
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Sorry to hear that Morty. Was unaware.
She sounds amazing … so pragmatic.
Their strength and resilience, or fatalism, can humble you can’t it Twink.
These things happen Dex … the Reaper ain’t fussy who he picks for which disease.
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Well, now I read it again, “ecstatic” isn’t the best choice of wording…relieved perhaps?
I’m sorry about your mother, Morty…you try and do the best thing by your parents and I suspect she was shocked at the timeline when she said she wished she hadn’t found out, more than the fact you told her at all.
It certainly can, especially when she supported me through my cancer. She said she will be scared at times, but after almost 7 years of treatment I think she is ready to take control of the rest of her life.
We had a laugh last weekend when I reminded her of the day we skipped school together. We went to a fish & chip cafe & they asked her if we wanted gravy on our meal. She said yes but we both hate gravy on fish and chips!
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Having just recently been told I have only got a small chance of living a further 5 years I wish someone had been able to warn me two years ago when it was treatable and survivable. Never hesitate if you realise someone has it.
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