I woke up on World Neuroendocrine Cancer Day

I woke up on World Neuroendocrine Cancer Day

1 year after 2 x surgery Macmillan Cancer Support featured this post CKN featured this post 5 years after 3 surgeries 10 years after surgery 13 years after first surgery It was 10th November 2010 just after midnight. I gradually woke up after a marathon 9-hour surgery - the first of what was to be several visits to an operating theatre. The last thing I remembered before going 'under' was the voices of the surgical staff. When I woke up, I remember it being dark and I appeared to be constrained and pinned down by the dozen or so tubes…
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8th November 2010 – on the way to hospital for surgery, alert the crash team!

8th November 2010 – on the way to hospital for surgery, alert the crash team!

The Journey to the Hospital on 8th November didn’t go smoothly!I had to be admitted to hospital for my surgery on 8th Nov 2010, but the surgery was not taking place until 9th November.  The technical reason for that is explained further below. Not a good start, 13 years ago today, Chris was driving me to the hospital for my first surgery, the "my big surgery" as I call it. It was "debulking" i.e. get as much as possible. In the end, the liver was left for another day.I had been working since being diagnosed and was still sending work emails…
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