On Sep 4, 11:21 pm, "Samantha Booth"
wrote:
Sorry i havent been on in a while but tbh I have had a bit of a time with it
lately.

While sanding the staircase 3 weeks ago I had a massive pain in my lungs and
collapsed. I was rushed to A&E where they found PE's (Pulmonary Emboli)
blood clots on my lungs which are very dangerous. They said I had multiple
on both lungs and had got them for a unknown reason. They did more tests and
found after a VQ and CT scan I have cancer of my Lymphatic System, Hodgkins
Lymphoma. I am at stage 3 out of 4 at present and may be diagnosed stage
four next week when my bone marrow tests are concluded. Its about as bad as
it gets with HL. And to top it all off I have a tumor on my heart 7"x5". (
YES ! inches) Not even my Bosch multitool is man enough to remove that one.

Joking aside I just wanted to let you know where I am up to and for the lack
of posts. I have nearly finished the house with just the fencing outside to
do and the hallway and kitchen to decorate which have obviously had to go on
the back boiler for the time being. I may not be here to finish it all but
wanted to thank you for all your help and advice ove the past 6 months or
so. Without your help and wisdom I would have got this far and am not living
in a comfortable house nearly completely finished, used the right tools and
materials and it looks fantastic and thats down tothe superb advice I have
received on here and your tireless answering of my endless question.

God bless you all, hopefuly if all goes well I start my Chemo next week and
will be back finishing the house sometime next year where I will be no doubt
bending your ear again, I hope anyway. If you feel this is a cry for
sympathy you dont know me, I genuinly wanted to thank you all as you have
been such a help to me. You often find in this life you get more help off
strangers on the net than family round the corner. So its not a plea for
sympathy, I would rather nobody posted a reply to this and start a thread, I
just wanted to say Thank You all and I hope to be able to speak with you all
very soon

Love to you all Sam

Hi Sam,

Sorry to hear your news. I had similar bad news in January 2007, after
a lot of chemo, surgery and currently Radio Therapy I am still
fighting, but making progress and hoping to win soon!

There are a lot of fantastic treatments out there, so keep on fighting
- there are different levels of treatment and you may have to go
through a few different ones to get rid of it, but it can be beaten.

Chemo is a bitch, but you have to be strong. There are many drugs to
combat the side effects - don't suffer in silence, tell the nurses and
doctors and they will have something to help - especially if you have
nausea, the anti emetic drugs are great - get them IV and the problem
ļ

All the best
Marc