The Cancer Thread

The_Most_Infamous · July 15, 2021, 10:48pm

Fairplay, mate.

Tank · July 15, 2021, 11:29pm

What will you do in the interim, with no bag and no normal service? Just hold it in?

habanerocat · July 15, 2021, 11:40pm

I was thinking the same thing myself. I presume he’s on a liquid diet until the surgery heals.

TheBird · July 15, 2021, 11:50pm

I’d imagine it’s fairly sudden. Like drawing a pull through through a rifle. Anyway, Mike will fill us in.

iron_mike · July 16, 2021, 5:41am

No. Nothing like that. I’ll be on a very low fiber diet for a couple of weeks. Letting the bowl get back to its routine slowly. I wint be let out of here anyway until I’ve had a few so called "normal movements "

LionelRitchie · July 16, 2021, 5:49am

You have to call in a circle.of.professionals to monitor you while you curl one out like an ice cream van?

Juhniallio · July 16, 2021, 6:54am

@LionelRitchie is on fire this morning!

habanerocat · July 16, 2021, 7:11am

High fibre, surely?

iron_mike · July 16, 2021, 7:12am

No. Low fiber. You dont want to overload something that has been dormant for the bones of three years.

flattythehurdler · July 16, 2021, 7:16am

You’ll be back filling the togs in croke park again in jig time mate
Unlimited Fartbreak.

farmerinthecity · July 23, 2021, 7:29pm

This isn’t really the appropriate thread as there hasn’t been a diagnosis but I’ve mentioned my Mam’s situation on this thread before.

She’ll be in hospital five weeks on Monday. She was sick complaining of breathlessness which was coming from fluid on her lung. The initial view was some sort of infection.

Five weeks on and all sorts of scans and antibiotics later we still don’t know what is wrong. Thankfully scans have all come back clear but the doctors don’t know what’s wrong which in my experience points to not good places.

Today we got news that yet again the antibiotics weren’t responding to the ‘infection’ and they were changing them again. My Mam is understandably not feeling great and I feel so sorry for her being stuck in hospital.

We have a meeting with the consultant next Wednesday which I hope will shed light on the story but what can you do? In the words of Opus - Life is Life.

iron_mike · July 23, 2021, 7:32pm

Best of luck with it. All you can do is wait

Thomas_Brady · July 23, 2021, 7:32pm

Best of luck with it pal.

myboyblue · July 23, 2021, 7:33pm

It’s a tough station you’ve described there farmer. I’ve been in your place and thankfully had the good outcome but as you say life is life and all you do is kick the can down the road

farmerinthecity · July 23, 2021, 7:33pm

That’s good to hear mate - thanks.

anon67715551 · July 23, 2021, 7:34pm

Keep positive oul’ stock. There’s nothing diagnosed yet per sè so wait and see. Granted it’s taking a while to tame an infection but she’s in good hands you’d hope.

farmerinthecity · July 23, 2021, 7:35pm

That’s the thing. We need to make a call on that at some point.

Elvis_Brandenberg_Kr · July 23, 2021, 7:36pm

Go n-eirí an bóthar libh, a chara.

anon67715551 · July 23, 2021, 7:37pm

Oh if you’re having any doubts on that score I’d move her to St.James’s.

She’s a patient of Dolan’s I’m assuming.

TheUlteriorMotive · July 23, 2021, 7:41pm

Best of luck with it pal

Whatever happens, as a lad whose mother died last week said to me it was a privilege mind her after all she did for me

It’s hard but i think you have to reach for the grace in these situations and that’s where you ultimately do justice to the man your mum reared.