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A few months ago Sisu said that he was born and brought up in Stoke-on-Trent. I challenged him to translate a bit of the local vernacular into English, but reply came there none. If it is verifiable that he was born and brought up in Stoke-on-Trent then let us have some facts - otherwise I shall continue not to trust his word. I need to know which part of Stoke-on-Trent and details of some local feature which cannot be gleaned from Google Maps or Wikipedia.
I received this morning the result of my second CT guided lung biopsy which was carried out on the 11th August and, as expected, it confirmed that I do have cancer in the top lobe of my right lung.
It was confirmed that the growth is in too dangerous a place for it to be removed surgically. It is recommended that I should have 20 days of radiotherapy in order to reduce the size of the growth. What happens after that I do not yet know. Presumably after the course of radiotherapy is finished I shall have a CT scan to see what the growth then looks like. I guess that I shall be able to bring you up to date towards the end of October.
As always please do not clutter up this board by replying to this post.
Sisu147 - on 19th July you said that you had attended a conference and on 7th August you said that you refused to answer any questions about which conference that was.
Yesterday you said that you were born in Stoke-on-Trent so I asked you a question at 17.48 which you have not yet answered.
Just to prove that we can accept what you say please finish this question "Cos kik a bo agen a wo ..........................? Even if you were quite young when you left Stoke-on-Trent I am sure that your parents or other relatives or friends would have introduced you to the Potteries dialect.
Today I went to the Royal Stoke to hear the result of the approximately ten biopsies that were done on the 20th July, and unfortunately once again they were inconclusive so I need to attend another CT guided lung biopsy on the 11th August - a week tomorrow. The medics will not treat cancer until they are satisfied that it exists and they know exactly what it is. The biopsy procedure involves my lying face downwards on the CT bed with my arms cradled around my head; I am given a local anaesthetic; and the surgeon then creates a small hole near the top of my back, inserts a needle, and cuts out a very thin slice of the growth. He says "breathe in, breathe out, hold your breath, breathe normally", and it is my responsibility to try to ensure that the quick breath in and quick breath out are carried out in exactly the same way each time. I guess that the small slice is extracted during the five second or so "hold your breath" periods, and I estimate that this happened about ten times, so ten biopsies were taken but none proved to have extracted cancerous cells. It is rather like trying to find a needle in a haystack, but this time the surgeon's needle didn't find the "needle" he was looking for.
If the second series of biopsies doesn't find any cancerous cells the medics say that they will probably recommend 20 days of radiotherapy in order to reduce the size of the growth. Under no circumstances will they try to extract the growth by surgery because it is too close to some main blood vessels. They still maintain that the growth looks suspiciously like cancer. Apparently Atypical adenomatous hyperplasia was noted, but I haven't yet got round to seeing what that means.
It looks as though nothing can be done about my cough - the air flow around the windpipe is being affected by the growth, and the cough is a natural result.
This has been an unusual week. I was about to go to my doctor's surgery on Monday morning for my first ever Annual Review when I suddenly felt light-headed, so I asked my wife to drive me there just in case I felt light-headed whilst driving. At the surgery my forehead was clammy and it was found that my blood pressure was too low and my pulse was twice its normal level. I was told to go to the Royal Stoke Accident and Emergency Department immediately, and they found that my blood pressure when I was sitting down, lying down, and standing up varied considerably, so I was admitted to the hospital and for 16 hours a solution was dripped into me and that regularised my blood pressure and pulse. On Tuesday morning they told me that I was a little dehydrated and must drink a lot of water throughout the rest of the day, and yesterday morning they said that my kidneys were working well and my dehydration had gone. I was discharged at 5.30pm.
I will report back in about three weeks' time. Please don't clutter up this board by replying to this post.
The endoscopy procedure on 26th June involved only some biopsies of one of the two growing lymph nodes. I was expecting it to involve biopsies of the other growing lymph node and the tumour. I was advised that if the lymph node was cancerous it would rule out the removal of the tumour by surgery because the risk of damage to my windpipe was too great, so this was the least invasive way of proving malignancy.
I have been to the Royal Stoke for the result today. The biopsies did not confirm the existence of cancer so I must go to the hospital on Thursday 20th July for a CT scan biopsy on the tumour. While I am undergoing a CT scan one or more medical staff wearing anti-radiation clothing will give me a local anaesthetic, insert a needle between my ribs and the top of my right lung, and take a number of samples of the tumour. The tumour is still described as highly suspicious of malignancy, and if it is malignant the biopsies will enable the medical staff to pinpoint the required treatment by immunotherapy or chemotherapy. I would be amazed if it proved to be benign because I have not been well for six months and I am still persistently coughing.
I will report back at the end of July when I receive the result of the CT scan biopsies. In the meantime please do not reply to this post.
Please read Numptypi's post on 23rd February.
The endoscopy procedure has now been arranged for 8.45am on Monday 26th June. It will then take up to a week to analyse the result, and I will report back to you at that stage. I forecast that I definitely have lung cancer; that it is too risky to try to remove it; and that, subject to advice from the medical team, I will choose to undergo an immunotherapy clinical trial. We shall see how accurate that forecast is!
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A little progress to report - I had an ECG test this morning and my heart is okay. Within the next fortnight I shall undergo an endoscopy. A camera will be lowered into my windpipe and a fine needle will be used to extract a small part of the tumour and a small part of two lymph nodes which have grown somewhat since my previous CT scan in 2019. The biopsies will then be examined in order to confirm that I definitely have lung cancer.
The multi-disciplinary team will then, within the following fortnight, look at everything that has been done so far and will let me know whether an operation is feasible or whether they will need to treat me with chemotherapy, radiotherapy or immunotherapy.
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I have received in today's post an appointment at the Royal Stoke Respiratory Medicine Dept for this Thursday (8th June) at 9.45am. I hope that they will tell me how they propose to treat the cancer in my upper right lung. I will let you know later that morning.
One or two people asked me to keep them informed, and that is what I am doing. As I requested a few days ago please do not respond to this post.
Good morning everyone.
Thank you very much to all who have sent good wishes since my last post. They include three people whom I have met on more than one occasion, The doors, Mushroomkid and Fred16.
Fred, please accept my apology for non-attendance at The Stag on the 14th June.
Looking ahead I said that I would let you know when there is anything to report.
Please do not respond to those messages as that would just clutter up this board. I know that I have your support, so I will take it as read that you wish me all the best.
Thank you very much to all of you who have sent your best wishes for the future - those whom I have met at get-togethers, Jerryspaniel, Lebugue-addick, Bamps, Doublehun, Strudel, NewBeginnings and Panama, and all those whom I have still to meet.
I will let you know when the experts have decided what will happen next.
Incidentally for those of you who are not squeamish you might like to tune in to 999 Critical Condition on Channel 5 at 9 o'clock. This is an award winning series filmed in the Trauma Unit at the Royal Stoke Hospital. I am in good hands.
Hi Bamps.
Thank you very much for your suggestion of a lunchtime get-together (once I have recovered from an operation or am not too ill during chemotherapy/radiotherapy).
If people are mainly coming by car an ideal spot would be Trentham Estate (ST4 8JG) which is a mile or so from Junction 15 of the M6. We could eat and drink in Terrazzo Del Giardino, an Italian restaurant with a bar. If people are mainly coming by train I would take them to the British Pottery Manufacturers Federation Club which is practically opposite Stoke railway station, but the dress code is smart casual and this must be adhered to at all times (for example no trainers or football shirts).
Hi again Blantyre boy. I have just looked back at your posting history and find that you did not forecast a future GGP price, but at 12.42 that day you said "Reckon the next one that whinges should donate 10,000 shares to archways next birthday party". Since then nobody seems to have owned up to whinging!
Hi Blantyre.
Thanks for your positivity. I had noticed that my first post on this subject was at 11.56 on 31st May 2020 under the thread RE: Blantyre, so you must have been one of the posters forecasting a future share price for GGP.
On this day in 2020 some posters were forecasting the future share price of GGP shares. I posted "I do not have a share price target, but I will be 82 in August and my target is to live another five years so that I can see how the project works out".
On 31st May 2020 the share price was 10p; a year later it was 22p, a year later it was 11p, and now it is only 8p. Two years still to go and prospects look very interesting for 31st May 2025.
I appear to be susceptible to getting cancer. I had prostate cancer (cured by radiotherapy in May/June 2010), and liver and lung cancer in 2016 (cured by the removal of half of my liver in the June and half of my left lung in the August). A CT scan on 9th May 2021 showed that I was completely free of cancer, but another one 20 days ago revealed that a tumour had grown in my right lung from nothing two years ago to quite a size now, and it is touching my windpipe and an artery. I had breathing tests on Friday and a PET scan on Saturday, and I am now waiting for the experts at the Royal Stoke University Hospital to decide whether or not they can remove the upper lobe of my right lung without taking too much of a risk.
It was good news that none of my earlier cancers was connected to the other cancers, and that I was cancer-free in 2021, but bad news that I have now got it in a different (and awkward) place. I am short of breath, coughing a lot, and lacking in energy, so I have amended my target to being able to send a fourth anniversary post on 31st May next year.
Johnpwh - we found a year or so ago that exemption from Inheritance Tax is only available if (a) the shares are only quoted on the AIM market and (b) the company is producing some revenue. Greatland will be quoted on the Australian Stock Exchange for some time before it is producing and selling gold and copper, so there is no chance of exemption from Inheritance Tax being available.