Glad you are coping, lets hope that this is a good omen for your future treatments, all the best and i hope the bacon butties remain on the menu! ;-). cheers marcus.
well done fellah, on the plus side the ridings f-king awful at the moment, Im so over rain and mud - so 16hrs sleep a day sounds like a better plan
Good luck matey. I look forward to hearing about you ripping up the trails again as soon as possible! Let us know how it goes and I'll have a glass to raise to you!
Excellent, please keep us updated by this thread.
Your attitude looks to be spot on, your family must be proud. 🙂
Thinking of you and yours ,wishing you every success in beating this
All the best for your treatment MM, really hope you do pull through it.
Chris - so glad you are eating something. More importantly you've got a scan booked in early.
We have fingers, toes and everything else crossed for your full recovery.
Looking forward to seeing you again.
Big hugs bunnyhop and nbt XX
Best of luck with the treatment. Stay strong!
Not sure I can add anything to the above, apart from my best wishes.
Don't think we've met, so I hope to see you on the trails some time. I'm not the most organised, so this probably won't be for 10-15 years or so.
See you then.
Iain
Any more news Chris on your latest hospital visits?
Gods, what a bummer! You're so young too. I send you my very best wishes. As said above, cancer is no longer the death sentence it once was. I send best wishes to your family too, in my (very limited) experience I think it's often worse for the family/partner as they have to watch a loved one suffer. I look forward to reading that the tumour(s) have gone and you are back on your bike. x
How I've missed this thread I don't know. Seriously, good luck with kicking its arse, from all at house vader.
Good luck with the results Chris.
Speak to the hospital nutritionist if you're worried about the food intake.
I'm impressed that you've managed to name yours in such a civil way. I tend to refer to mine as this ####er, c### or perhaps ######d. Never suffered from Tourettes until 'kin cancer strikes!
All of the best mate, we're with you.
ust a couple of positive anecdotes. I've a mate who's just undergone full on big style chemo sessions for hodgkins and he's got the all clear. A colleague has just had similar. Both unbelievably stoic and positive through it all (most of it anyway) despite pretty even prognoses at the outset. It can be beat. Treatment's improving all the time. Best of luck to you and your family 🙂
Am participating in a fund raising event for the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation weekend after next so feel free to spend some of that!
Positive story: My mum had lung cancer 4 years ago. Since treatment she now enjoys good health and is stable and getting on with things. She lives with the on-going situation with no apparent real problems.
Very best wishes to you and yours
B
Any news?
Bunnyhop- I hope the shoulder is much better now?
Best wishes and thoughts to you and your family and friends. It's a sh*t disease, you're young, fit and positive and can beat it. As I type I'm off looking after my wife following major surgery for the first step of her treatment for breast cancer. Stay strong fella!
Thanks Hora.Bunnyhop- I hope the shoulder is much better now?
Best wishes to everyone else in the same boat as Marsdenman, I hope you all remain strong and get your health back asap.
Sorry to hear what you're going through. All the best and hope the treatment is a success for you.
You okay Marsdenman?
Hope you are ok dude 🙂
Hi all. I just met with Chris for a coffee, and he has asked me to post a quick update for him. The treatment has hit him hard and he's very tired all the time, which is why he's not been posting on here. He is bearing up brilliantly considering everything, and we had a lovely long chat about all sorts. He asked me to say thanks for all the kind messages of support he has received from you lot, both on here and privately. I'm sure he'll be along to update you all with more details in person as soon as he gets the time and the energy to do so.
Like. 😀
Thanks mintimperial.
I've been in touch with Chris too and echo the above.
He's had to endure some uncomfortable treatment, which would have had most people on their knees, however with Chris he has a certain personality to laugh it off as though it were nothing 🙂
Glad to hear he's hanging in there and I hope that the treatment he's receiving is working.
Chin up!
🙂
Hi folks,
Hope you're all fine and well?
It's taken me a while to get my head in anyway straight enough to type this but, here goes, an update...
Firstly, thanks again to everyone for words of support etc. especially those who have contacted me directly - sorry I did not reply directly, my mind has mostly been anywhere but foreword...
Logically there is much more to this, but, having played this post over in my mind so many times, I figure simple is best...
Just before Easter we made the decision that there will be no more 'life extending' treatment for my cancer.
Since the original diagnosis we have always been well aware that the treatment available would likely have limited success. The scans etc that came after the 1st batch of chemo confirmed that the drugs were not working. Indeed, the cancer appeared to be spreading. At this point our oncologist advised that, locally, they could think of no further option they could offer but they set about speaking to other specialist centres. Word came back of another option for chemo but, again, it was stressed that positive results were not to be expected, still, you have to give these things a go.
Following the first dose of this second treatment my immunity levels hit rock bottom and I ended up in hospital. Fortunately, what was initially thoughts to be a new, large, aggressive, tumour turned out to be a bad infection, the legacy of which turns out to be a blood clot on my, until now 'good' right lung. Better the clot than the tumour...
So, as the chemo was leaving me feeling rubbish and wide open to further infection etc it was time to revisit a conversation Sharon and I had had before. Quite simply 'quality or quantity'. Quality was kind of a known position - appetite better, not as tired, generally feeling so much better in myself. Quantity - bottom line is, no one knows how long I'm likely stick around, chemo or not.
Decision made, we spoke with our oncologist. He agreed with us.
So, there you have it.
Big decision made but, I've not been this happy for a good while. I get scared I every day. I'm happy every day...
Life is as good as it can get.
The support of a truly amazing wife, family and friends humbles me every day.
As for the NHS, Macmillan, Kirkwood hospice etc etc I do not know where to start....
Chris
Shit. Not much else I can say about that one, pretty much sums it up.
(Edit: best wishes obviously to you and your wife, but that just sounds a bit weak when hearing of your decision.)
Not much to say, but you've made a decision, and who can say that isn't right?
Thinking of you and your family.
Again, I find myself feeling very humbled by your courage. I admire and respect your decision, as your wife and family do too.
Wishing you love and continuing happiness.
None of us can say how we would deal with such a situation til we were faced with it, you've made a decision that's right for you and your family - which is all that truly matters.
Trying to find something inspirational to say that isn't trite, the truth is i can't. Its all been said before & by far more erudite people than myself.
Hope the sun shines on you and your family for as long as it can.
It is a hard, and very brave, decision to take. I wouldn't like to be in your shoes, but having watched my Mum loose the fight with all the medical treatment being thrown at things earlier this year I think it is very probably the right decision taken for entirely the right reasons.
Quality of life is paramount, and with limited chance of any kind of success from a pretty debilitating process you are as well enjoying what time you have left to the absolute best of your abilities... and leave everyone with good memories when the time comes.
So sorry for you that I really don't have the words - but my thoughts are and shall remain with you and your family.
We've had reason to think through a similar choice here too and for what it's worth I think you've probably made a good decision and I wish you the best of health for longest possible time.
Chris, i feel so so sorry for you mate. such a brave choice to have to make.
keep positive mate, and all the luck in the world to you and you family.
Hi, I'm both sorry to hear you have had to make this decision but also very much admire your decision and choosing to be open about it. I hope you are able to make the most of each day with the people you love.
Take care,
J
the bravest of us take hold of our own destiny. I hope this doesn't sound trite and it is meant with great respect. all the best for you and your family from the vaders
All the very best to you. A very hard decision.
Good luck to you.
That's a brave decision you've had to make, MM - I can see why making it has taken a weight off already.
Is there anything "we" (I can only really speak for myself, of course, and I live a while away from you, but still...) might be able to do to help ? Anything you need, or wish you could do but don't have the assistance to make it possible ?
All the best to you and those who love you. Make some (more) great memories !
I don't think I could ever imagine the strength it must've taken to come to that decision. I have the ultimate respect for you and wish you and your's the very best.
There really isn't much that can be said but well done for taking charge of the bits you can. I hope you are able to continue making the most of things as long and longer than you could possibly imagine.
I think you've just slipped into my New Bravest Family slot, Chris, created specially for you.
Thoughts and prayers are with ya big fella- xx
all the best, thoughts with you.
Aye, all the best from us as well. Hope you have many wonderful family experiences from now on.
*hugs*.
We'll see you soon, hopefully.