Thursday 4th September Treatment Review It’s spring, yet as the alarm wakes us up at 6am to head down to the city it feels more like the middle of winter. I just want to pull the covers back up around me and keep dreaming about the brown suede heels with the mesh centre strap that I…
Tag: sarcoma cancer
14 August 2014…some days are hard
Keeping a positive attitude doesn’t prevent us from going through difficult times. This is something I have come to understand pretty clearly in the last couple of months. Positive thought doesn’t take away the crappy days, or the awful side effects I watch my husband go through, but it does help us to keep putting…
7 August 2014… hair today gone tomorrow
In the shower, on Thursday, when we were getting ready to go down for the next lot of cancer treatment, Bren’s hair started falling out. It was like, OK today’s the day, and every time he put his hands near his hair some of it fell out. Ironically, he had a pretty good head of…
29 July 2014…chemo wrap-up.
Bren has just wrapped up 7 days of toxicity from his first lot of chemo and it has been a bit of a rollercoaster ride. We have a few things to get our heads around — these are just a couple of our new normals: He has to use his own bathroom. Putting it delicately he…
23 July 2014 …first chemo: crash cart required
We are both anxious as we turn up at Day Therapy this morning. It’s 8 am and we are the first ones here. The reception area is bright and airy with a coffee and tea bar opposite the reception desk. The furniture is modern, in caramel and coffee colours and there are two widescreen TV’s…
22 July 2014…Chemo 1; meeting Team Brendan – City
It’s been a huge couple of days; Tuesday was all about meeting more of Team Brendan, and preparing for what would happen the following day — Bren’s first chemo treatment. We started off by meeting the acting Clinical Nurse Consultant, a really friendly and extremely busy young woman. in her early 30’s, she is tall with…
20 July 2014… a road trip to recovery
The wait is finally over, after a very long few weeks it is now all go. Brendan’s treatment starts this Tuesday. Last Wednesday, not being able to wait any longer without knowing what was going on, I sent an email off to the Sarcoma Multidisciplinary Team requesting a treatment plan, and that same day we…
11 July 2014…the waiting game
It’s almost a month since Brendan’s initial consultation with his doctor, at the Sydney cancer clinic. His biopsy was three weeks ago and he received the results over a week ago — confirming that he has a large sarcoma in his right femur and a smaller one in his left. We are hoping to know…
5 July 2014 ….biopsy results
The last thing you want your husband to do when getting his biopsy results from his doctor, is look at you and mouth the word fuck. We finally have the results and they are not what we were hoping for, but are what we expected after Dr P had talked to Bren after rounds. It…
13 June 2014 … Consultation
It was Friday the 13th of June 2014, when Brendan and I first found ourselves in Sydney, at the cancer hospital . I was glad It wasn’t a very hospital-y hospital. It made it easier to be there. We were both worried as we walked through the large sliding glass doors at the front of the…
