Eneucleation

Well on Wednesday she had a sample of the tumour removed for analysis as the quacks aren't convinced it's cancer. Since then her eye is completely bloodshot, you can see where the incision was in the eye and it hurts like a bitch. Her eyesight is now restricted and she has to wear a patch most of the time. The worst is that this has highlighted how hard it's going to be if they need to remove the eye. Her depth perception is completely gone, she often misses simple things like pouring a cup of water. She's putting on a brave face but I've known this woman long enough to know when something's getting her down and truth be told this is bloody difficult to watch. This is also the reason I've cancelled going to the meet this weekend (@Feek I got your message mate, all good, really sorry about this but I hope you understand).

That all being said, the staff at Moorfields are absolutely amazing, can't speak highly enough of them. We have email addresses and phone numbers for the doctors she's seeing and they reply very fast. There is no doubt in my mind that she's in some of the best hands in the world and they're doing all they can to make this as painless as possible.

On another note, her skin has been itching for a while now and she went for blood tests at 2pm yesterday (for obvious reasons) and by 10am this morning she had the results. Too many white blood cells apparently, but they reckon this is due to the surgery she had on Wednesday so she's going back on Monday to have them taken again now that the body has had a bit of time to heal.

I must admit that this is a huge learning curve for me, it's extremely tough and I never realised quite how much of an arsebiscuit thins kind of thing is. I just seriously hope that the tests come back negative, we really don't need that wankstain of a disease in our lives.
 
On another note, her skin has been itching for a while now

As a sufferer of terminal eczema my heart goes out to her. My skin is constantly burning and itching, it's like ants constantly crawling over you whilst holding lit matches - it drives you ******* insane. As ****** up as it sounds, I'd happily take losing an eye if it meant the itching stopped.
 
@Diddums Glad to hear it's probably not cancer even though she's still in a lot of pain and difficulty. My mum is going through the wars recently and I had to take her to Moorfields last week for a suspected tumor in her eye. Luckily it wasn't. But like you I found every single one of the staff to be exceptional. Even one of the cleaners stopped to take us somewhere when we were having trouble finding the right department. It's quite humbling. Good luck.
 
Surgery today. Got to Moorfields, she fasted over night, scrubbed up, put on those silly tight socks and waited. We must've been there for two hours or so before the surgeon comes in and asks to have a look at the eye before surgery. She disappears with this man for a few minutes and returns looking awfully satisfied. Then Dr Hay appears and takes us both away for a good time. Starts poking around in her, have a good look with his fancy eye inspection thingy, says "the tumour is shrinking". So he satisfied both of us at the same time, quite the gentleman I should add. She's made quite a few changes in her life over the last few months, she does 10k steps a day (which for her job is quite an achievement, make no mistake), eats healthier, quit smoking. Looks like it might have paid off. We don't have any concrete answers, the dr did straight up tell her that if she was a horse he would've shot her by now (worst thing you can say around a saffer, we have bathroom doors man!). He also said, for the first time since we started this whole ordeal that she might keep the eye. Naturally we're both extremely happy right now. Cancer is a tricky thing and there are enough variables and shades of grey to this whole episode to drive anyone nuts but for now we're just enjoying the good news.

Quite how we feel is hard to put in to words, but I think Terry Crews selling Old Spice on Super Mario to remixed Eurotrash music comes pretty close:



Today is a Good Day :cool:
 
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