April 2020 - Ronny Allan - Living with Neuroendocrine Cancer

25Apr 2020 by Ronny Allan No Comments

Ronny Allan: Living with Neuroendocrine Cancer during COVID-19 restrictions 2 – the bench walk

This is the second part of a new series entitled Ronny Allan: Living with Neuroendocrine Cancer during COVID-19 restrictions. During my self imposed isolation of 14 days after developing "a new and continuous cough", I documented almost daily during this period but only on my public Facebook page entitled "my 14 day self isolation diary" - I compiled it here - click here to read. In the first update of this series, I explained that I kept my diary going, but again, only on my public Facebook page, so I was prompted to document these on my blog site to cater for those not on Facebook who only see what I produce in blog format. But it's my intention to also post these on my other public Facebook sites. Because…

23Apr 2020 by Ronny Allan 2 Comments

Ronny Allan: Living with Neuroendocrine Cancer during COVID-19 restrictions 1 – out of isolation

Living with Neuroendocrine Cancer

It's been over a week since I came out of my self imposed isolation of 14 days after developing "a new and continuous cough". Although I'm much better now, nothing has really changed in that I'm sticking to my own property pretty much all of the time. In case you missed my 14 day self isolation diary - I compiled it here - click here to read. Since coming out of isolation, we've been for a couple of government mandated walks from our house (max 1 hour) - it's fairly easy to find empty streets and lanes around here, so we're quite lucky. I did notice people keeping a wide berth of each other - very sensible. In UK, we're worried about our Prime Minister, no nation likes their leader…

10Apr 2020 by Ronny Allan 2 Comments

Neuroendocrine Cancer Surgery 3: my distant lymph nodes

Treatment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter Share on pinterest Pinterest Share on whatsapp WhatsApp Share on email Email "An unusual disposition of tumours" A fairly common disposition of Neuroendocrine Neoplasms is a primary with associated local/regional secondary's (e.g. lymph nodes), and often with liver metastases for late diagnoses. Apart from the primary tumour invading nearby tissue/organs, the most common spread is the lymph nodes, these can take you from a localised Stage 1 to loco-regional Stages 2 and 3. Often the term distant spread infers metastatic disease (stage 4) to the liver but I had some lymph nodes 'misbehaving' much further away than that. After my first nuclear scan (In-111 Octreoscan) during my diagnostic workup in Jul-Aug 2010, two areas lit up - left axillary nodes (armpit) and…

01Apr 2020 by Ronny Allan 1 Comment

We Remember – A message of hope in the time of the Coronavirus!

Inspiration

I really like this video because it covers the positives of the coronavirus crisis, despite the daily gloom. At the time of writing, it's clear things will get worse before they improve. However, this crisis will end sometime, hopefully soon; and we'll look back on this period with multiple emotions. Of course we will be sad about those who died and for the lives that were changed. But we will also look back fondly at how we dealt with these changes, the new ways of thinking, new outlooks, new friends, new relationships and new communities. Personally, I can't wait for this crisis to be a distant memory but we should all remember the positive things happening now and that will hopefully be maintained going forward. There will be new communities…