Today I had to go to the Nurse for treatment Friday night I woke up scratching a very itchy leg and all of a sudden it spurted what I thought was blood. Went to bathroom and it was water. A huge hole had appeared with loose skin, about 6″ by 4ins. I wrapped it up but the pain was electric. Went to the Nurse in our local GP and she said this is what happens with Chemo. It is fluid that works with Gravity so I must rest up legs. It was a huge blister that I had burst in my scratching. So please if the skin get itchy and scaly get it seen to. I was using the cream and my last chemo was Sept but she said it has damaged things so I will carry on with the problem and she has seen people with all the leg scaly and red. Almost like a burn or I have scalded the leg. Hope you find that helpful.I go back Friday and she will redress it. Im so glad it wasnt a leg Ulcer as that take ages to clean and get better.
So that was all exciting. Makes a change from me talking about the weather and floods. They are still there as everyone knows and watches on Tv.
I keep saying this but the generations after 1970 are breathing Asbestos that is already in place and and crumbling I wish they would test that it becomes more dangerous when crumbling and old, that is why younger people are going down so quick. It laid in my lungs from fresh made Asbestos for 48 years so it is known as an old mans disease but we are seeing young people where it has not laid in there bodies for very long before it shows itself. We have a lovely Lad in US Micheal who is really struggling at 28 years of age .
We have a lovely flower club on our Mesowarriors page on Facebook and we lovely cheering people up when they are facing problems.
Micheal got a Teddy Bear Ah Bless xxx
Now we have read this http://connecticut.news12.com/local-man-battling-rare-form-of-cancer-1.6945029
NORWALK – A local man battling a rare form of cancer is seeking treatment and the money to pay for it.
Christian Olsen, 33, has mesothelioma, which causes cancerous tumors.
Olsen says he had pain beneath the right side of his rib cage and was diagnosed with the potentially fatal disease in both his chest and abdomen.
The warriors fighting for the cure.
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Please back us with this petition as it is nearly through and people like me can have any trial.
The Medical Innovation Bill, to be introduced by Lord Saatchi, is intended to help patients by allowing their doctors to be less constrained by clinical orthodoxy.
Single issue fanatics, whose fervent beliefs have no scientific merit, will still be reined in. But doctors who can make a reasonable case for a non-standard approach will be able to do so. Clearly they have to have the support of the patient. Also they must convince a scrutinising panel
The Medical Innovation Bill intends to make it easier to define what is sensible and permissible innovation and, by contrast, what is reckless experimentation.
It would do this by setting out a clear protocol to follow before offering the patient an innovative or experimental procedure.
Under the bill, the lead clinician must consult with, and gain approval from, a multi-disciplinary team. Without approval, the innovation cannot be legally offered.
This approach is eminently sensible. Which of us would not want to brush aside ‘the way things have always been done’ if doing so might bring additional years of health and happiness to a loved one?
Doctors in the front line, right alongside their patients in the battle with disease and decay, want to do the best they can. So who is the enemy? Who has a vested interest in the status quo? Whose head would roll if something did not work out as hoped when something new is tried?
The answer at present is that we are witnessing a civil war. The doctor’s own career would be sacrificed if he or she steps out of line.
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) was intended to weed out mavericks. It has become the keeper of the purse for the NHS.
The General Medical Council has responsibility for putting doctors names onto the medical register, through monitoring medical education, as well as for striking off miscreants. Yet how much attention do they pay to considering whether doctors are properly trained for the job they actually do? For example, are GPs trained to counsel? Hardly at all. Yet that is half the work. Are specialists trained to take risks? No. But they have to.
Lawyers and Coroners judge the actions of doctors on what their colleagues would customarily do.
A profound inertia results from the limited vision of these guardians of public safety – with the consequence, as Lord Saatchi understands only too well, that doctors now fear more for themselves and their families than they do for their patients.
About the author
Dr Robert Lefever is regarded as the pioneer of addiction treatment methods and rehab centres in the UK. He established the very first rehabilitation centre that treated patients with eating disorders alongside those with drug and alcohol problems. He was also the first to treat compulsive gambling, and workaholism.
READ: Dr Lefever blogs for the Daily Mail
Lord Saatchi
Lord Saatchi’s Medical Innovation Bill (the Saatchi Bill) will help doctors innovate new treatments and cures for cancer and other diseases.
The Medical Innovation Bill will save lives by supporting doctors who want to innovate and find new ways of treating disease.
Doctors, patients and judges will have much greater clarity as to what is negligent and dangerous practice by clinicians and what is careful and sensible innovation.
It will free your doctor to consider new treatments and ideas. But, and more importantly, it will allow the patient to demand innovative treatment.
One of the most famous examples of innovation is when Geoffrey Keynes, a doctor at Barts, refused to do what surgeons across the UK and US were doing with breast cancer – the Halsted method – whereby women with breast cancer faced a double mastectomy, and the removal of all tissue from the shoulder, to the chest wall, to ribs – anything and everything that could be removed without killing the women.
Keynes, alone, removed only the tumour and undertook radiotherapy, in combination. He was ridiculed and humiliated on a world stage. Halsted followers called it a ‘lumpectomy’ as a term of derision. Of course, today, the lumpectomy is standard procedure.
That was innovation.
Once passed, a patient, armed with the legislation, will be able to say to his or her doctor: ‘Are you trying everything? Can you do anything differently?’ The doctor will no longer need to say he or she cannot risk trying anything new.
Rays blog http://mesoandme.wordpress.com/2014/02/09/sunday-74/
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