News on Wife (reason for being away for a day)

Calranthe said:
Okay okay now you would think life would give me a break, just a tiny one, I mean stuff happens and we deal.
Today I went for an colonoscopy (stick the camera up the butt) because my Red cell count is low, well wait for it...
It looks like I have bowel cancer, samples have been taken place has been marked with dye so that surgeons can have at it.
They did an emergency CT scan of my body just in case it has spread, hopefully we caught it early.

But seriously ??
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Really?

REALLY?!

Life can be so hard some times and this is prime example... What rotten luck.

Lets hope its been caught early bud. fight it! Despite what life is throwing at you grab it by the horns and fight it. Your wife did and you can too!
 
I guess I am getting use to dealing with bad news and mortality, it may not be cancerous, it may not have spread, it may have been caught early there is a good chance that everything I just said is right and true, unfortunately it is just a waiting game now, waiting for the CT results which unlike on TV shows can take 2 weeks, I do not know how long it takes to get results back from the samples but they have my phone number.

Yes I will fight this.

Funeral details are in.
We are having a small service at carmountside cemetery, leek road, none religious, I will be doing the service after all, I know her best, if anyone is to speak about her it should be me, 10th December at 12, from there anyone who wants to come back to our house for a quite chat and food, that will happen.

We are not going with flowers because Paola never agreed with that, they die to quickly, anyone who wants to do something instead send a donation in Paola's name to https://www.animallifeline.org.uk/wp/ a local charity we have had all our dogs from.

I am just going to get on with doing what needs to be done.

Thank you all.
 
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I'm sorry to hear of your health problems, hopefully it's nothing. I'm still waiting to hear if I'm having a kidney removed before I go on the transplant list, like you say these things take ages to sort.

Good luck for the funeral, a lot of people request no flowers for the same reason, I think a donation to the animal shelter is a nice touch. I will donate next week when I have some funds.

*I think the shelter address needs a .UK at the end because without it goes to a shelter in New Jersey and with it's a shelter in Staffordshire.
 
rebel rebel said:
I'm sorry to hear of your health problems, hopefully it's nothing. I'm still waiting to hear if I'm having a kidney removed before I go on the transplant list, like you say these things take ages to sort.

Good luck for the funeral, a lot of people request no flowers for the same reason, I think a donation to the animal shelter is a nice touch. I will donate next week when I have some funds.

*I think the shelter address needs a .UK at the end because without it goes to a shelter in New Jersey and with it's a shelter in Staffordshire.
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Thank you and yep I edited it :)
 
its bowel cancer, I am going into hospital on the 20th will be in for 7 days, they are also concerned about a nodule in my lung it may be nothing but with bowel cancer they have to keep an eye on it.
 
Jeez mate, was thinking today we've not heard anything from you recently, hang in there buddy I feel I speak for a huge majority of the forum members here in wishing you all the best and a speedy recovery.
 
Thank you, I am now sorting out buying PJ's and all that kind of thing that I only ever got for Paola, she spent a lot of time in hospital, me well apart from a hernia I've never spent time in hospital.
 
Jeez Calranthe, been following your post since you posted the OcUK appreciation one, just never known what to say.

I can't imagine what you are going through right now and the only thing I can say is to take a leaf out of Paola's book and fight every single step of the way.

Keeping my fingers crossed you get some good news soon.
 
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