Most life changing event for you this year?

Being diagnosed with bone cancer and having my knee and a large part of my femur removed and replaced with a titanium prosthetic. Just waiting to see if I need chemotherapy.
 
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bigdunc said:
Being diagnosed with bone cancer and having my knee and a large part of my femur removed and replaced with a titanium prosthetic. Just waiting to see if I need chemotherapy.
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Best wishes to you in your fight. :)
 
Mine started off pretty grim..

I have a slight ego, invincible in my mind. Day after my last surgery (Last month) I bled out in the shower and was taken to GSST (Sutton to Waterloo for those who want to know) - Probably spent 40-50 minutes total bleeding (A lot) - It clotted in the ambulance. Literally spent 25 minutes in a bath of my own blood.

Since that day I've not only realised my own mortality, but that the slightest thing can make recovery much more complex.

Can say my ego went down a bit, though I survived?! (IMMORTALITY!)

I'd call that pretty life changing.
 
O.D. said:
Mine started off pretty grim..

I have a slight ego, invincible in my mind. Day after my last surgery (Last month) I bled out in the shower and was taken to GSST (Sutton to Waterloo for those who want to know) - Probably spent 40-50 minutes total bleeding (A lot) - It clotted in the ambulance. Literally spent 25 minutes in a bath of my own blood.

Since that day I've not only realised my own mortality, but that the slightest thing can make recovery much more complex.

Can say my ego went down a bit, though I survived?! (IMMORTALITY!)

I'd call that pretty life changing.
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I got a job for the first time in 5 years. I have had 5 years of being ill and now to be finally employed feels great. Now time for work
 
jsmoke said:
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So I've got Crohn's disease. Perianal to be precise. Have had 5 surgeries since I turned 22 (1 a year on average, 27 now) - Had my most recent one last month, routine for what I normally have done.

Instructions were:

- Go to the bathroom and expect internal packaging to fall out (Check)
- Go to GP to get external packaging changed (Failed)
-- Note, I was told I could shower around the packaging as long as I was careful, have had enough of these to know how to basically clean myself carefully around fresh surgical wounds.

I jumped into the shower and the external packaging fell out (Probably the pressure from going to the bathroom moved it out of place) - So I started to bleed. Thought nothing of it at first as a bit of blood post-surgery is normal and expected. Then it kept bleeding, heavier.

Dialed 111 after about 5 minutes as I assumed it would stop (Nope.) and talked them through what was going on, was on the phone for about 15 minutes (Still bleeding, blood clotting in the bath, basically the whole 'bath floor' was now blood.) - Next thing they're sending an ambulance.

Ambulance gets to the flat, 3 paramedics are met by the girlfriend. They come up to the bathroom and find me in a bath of blood. They make me stand up and I basically collapse, but stay conscious, never been that dizzy n my life. Manage to make it to the ambulance. (Bathroom walls are all covered in blood stains, blood on the floor where it leaked through towels and other stuff they used)

Get to GSST and I've stopped bleeding. Pale as hell, light headed, but functioning. They let me leave a few hours later.

Proceeded to sleep for 2 days.

Mortality. Fun times.
 
Not happened yet, but i will be marrying my partner and best friend in December on the bottom of the world but by then, this thread will probably be forgotten about so i thougt i'd mention it now.
 
O.D. said:
So I've got Crohn's disease. Perianal to be precise. Have had 5 surgeries since I turned 22 (1 a year on average, 27 now) - Had my most recent one last month, routine for what I normally have done.

Instructions were:

- Go to the bathroom and expect internal packaging to fall out (Check)
- Go to GP to get external packaging changed (Failed)
-- Note, I was told I could shower around the packaging as long as I was careful, have had enough of these to know how to basically clean myself carefully around fresh surgical wounds.

I jumped into the shower and the external packaging fell out (Probably the pressure from going to the bathroom moved it out of place) - So I started to bleed. Thought nothing of it at first as a bit of blood post-surgery is normal and expected. Then it kept bleeding, heavier.

Dialed 111 after about 5 minutes as I assumed it would stop (Nope.) and talked them through what was going on, was on the phone for about 15 minutes (Still bleeding, blood clotting in the bath, basically the whole 'bath floor' was now blood.) - Next thing they're sending an ambulance.

Ambulance gets to the flat, 3 paramedics are met by the girlfriend. They come up to the bathroom and find me in a bath of blood. They make me stand up and I basically collapse, but stay conscious, never been that dizzy n my life. Manage to make it to the ambulance. (Bathroom walls are all covered in blood stains, blood on the floor where it leaked through towels and other stuff they used)

Get to GSST and I've stopped bleeding. Pale as hell, light headed, but functioning. They let me leave a few hours later.

Proceeded to sleep for 2 days.

Mortality. Fun times.
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So sorry for your hardship. I thought you were in a prison or street fight!

Hope there's hope at the end of the tunnel.
 
2015 is going to be an unforgettable years for me and the wife.
after 3x failed rounds of IVF last year we managed to conceive naturally (against all possible odds), spent the majority of 2015 worrying something would go wrong.
babe expected any day now :cool:

Hopefully all goes well, but the year will end with more stress and worry, as the wife needs to have her bowel cancer surgery. she delayed having this until we had a child.

Oh, and we also sold our house, will likely move into a static caravan whilst we build our new house...

:p
 
1. Mum passed away to liver cancer May 5th. Only lasted 7 months after diagnosis :(
2. Finally managed to get myself a small payrise, 11.3% and feel like I'm almost being paid for the responsibility I have now
3. Transferred ALL of my hard earned savings to my solicitors this weekend gone in preparation to exchange and complete on a new house in the next few weeks
 
Gixer said:
1. Mum passed away to liver cancer May 5th. Only lasted 7 months after diagnosis :(
2. Finally managed to get myself a small payrise, 11.3% and feel like I'm almost being paid for the responsibility I have now
3. Transferred ALL of my hard earned savings to my solicitors this weekend gone in preparation to exchange and complete on a new house in the next few weeks
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Sorry for your loss :(.

Congrats on the new house though.
 
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