BC.... The " sexy " cancer
I feel the need to post after reading a letter to the editor of the Sunday telegraph today that has really upset me.
A very mixed up reader wrote " its up to funding bodies and the government to make ...
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We should all write down our what not to say to cancer patients and encourage the book there are many of us who would have some classics. The dickhead who wrote that comment should be named and shamed in the book for sure. I haven't felt sexy for nearly 12 months! people are just so insensitive sometimes. Ill have to stop and think about all the shitty things that have been said to me but here's one to start the book off.
Was starting my first dose of taxol all hooked up and ready to go and in walks the breast care nurse no hello no how are you just Oh youre starting on the taxol, well you know you're going to get debilitating bone pain with that and wont be able to get out of bed and then she just walks off! my husband nearly got up and punched her in the face I was in tears and luckily got reassured by my chemo nurse that this does happen sometimes but not to everyone. There are others Ill just have to get my chemo brain to remember them!! And no I didn't get the Ignore bone pain, yes I had some aches and pains but nothing like she said I would get Margie.
Was starting my first dose of taxol all hooked up and ready to go and in walks the breast care nurse no hello no how are you just Oh youre starting on the taxol, well you know you're going to get debilitating bone pain with that and wont be able to get out of bed and then she just walks off! my husband nearly got up and punched her in the face I was in tears and luckily got reassured by my chemo nurse that this does happen sometimes but not to everyone. There are others Ill just have to get my chemo brain to remember them!! And no I didn't get the Ignore bone pain, yes I had some aches and pains but nothing like she said I would get Margie.