In early May 2010 I had a combination of CT & MRI Scans and a chest X-Ray which I thought was fairly routine; well for me anyway ! These had all been arranged to be carried out on the same day to avoid lots of travel. Any thoughts I then had of all this lot being 'routine' were dashed when on the 7th May 2010, within 24hrs, my GP was knocking at the door and invited my husband to follow him up, because he had some news. The startling thing was, that my husband had only just come off the phone to him a few minutes earlier on a different topic and having established that we were both at home, came straight round.
The news was hard to listen to, but although they only had a preliminary report the medical professionals were pretty confident that they were dealing with a cancerous tumour. There was really not much more information available at this point and although the GP was quite happy to answer any questions ..... what on earth do you ask ? Worst thing was, that it was a Fri afternoon and we knew that there would be nothing more until at least Mon !
So it was now a case of waiting to be called to see an Oncologist and have biopsies taken to prove the imagery findings.
Levels of pain continued to increase over the weekend and had to get NHS 24 out several times, but by Wed 12th May the GP was back and had me admitted. Now I think that an appointment for an oncology appointment had arrived for maybe the following week, but that was all little superfluous now !
I had an x-ray on admission, the following day a further pain-block and the first biopsies were taken on Fri 14th May. This led us into another weekend of waiting. News back from the lab on the Monday was that the results of the first biopsies were inconclusive, so a further set would have to be taken. This happened fairly quickly (on the Tue) but there was now a risk that we would have to wait through the weekend again. There was no need however, because news came back on Friday 21st May ........ I had cancer !!!
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