Mayo Clinic warns on
Cancer treatment and the heart
If you have had cancer, their advice is to keep a check on your heart. Continue reading
HAVING FUN AFTER CANCER! Verite Reily Collins writes about Cancer Side Effects
If you have had cancer, their advice is to keep a check on your heart. Continue reading
Party Gurus have obviously listened to NHS staff, Patients etc Continue reading
And Living Nature, the New Zealand skincare range , providing natural and organic skincare, especially easily-absorbed oils, has some beauties.
After years of telling us to eat ‘spreads’, the food police now say it’s OK to eat Butter – and in fact full-fat milk is probably better for us than skimmed! Continue reading
A friend has just posted a pic of her itchy, bubbly skin on a social website; I hope she has better care from Dermatologists than I had.
Three days after starting Tamoxifen, I woke up bleeding all over from bloody blisters. Had gone to bed with OK skin, but this overnight eruption frightened the living daylights out of me.
Rushed to hospital, where the Head Dermatologist told me”it’s your age”. Tried to question his diagnosis, but he swept out, saying he didn’t have time to answer questions.
Luckily, the Head Chaplain suggested I go to La Roche Posay, (LRP), the French centre for these types of problems. Phoning to find out if they could help, they brushed aside my awful French, and in charming English said they would be delighted to see me, asked searching questions and fixed me up, appointments and all to investigate my problem. Continue reading
Trying to find information, you could go to NHS CHOICES website –
Their suggestion is ‘Contraception’.
Try again – and up comes ‘Suicide’.
Definitely a ‘malfunction’ of the NHS’s £60 Billion IT system, but it could upset patients. It’s not funny, and is NOT good enough for a publicly-funded Internet service, dealing with a problem that affects 25% of cancer survivors. Continue reading
King’s Fund think tank says the coalition government’s changes wasted three years, failed patients, caused financial distress and left a strategic vacuum.
But Labour# efforts before last election hadn’t gained praise either.
because if I did this today
I’d scare the living daylights out of anyone watching.
A Lumpectomy seemed a painless option – until several years later I am left with a lop-sided bust that could be mistaken for a map of moon craters. Plus scars from remedial work, including a very sexy ‘cleavage’ scar – result of 7-hour heart op from drug side effects. So anyone having this op. should discuss options very carefully.
Ask what might happen in the future. Continue reading