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What is a Portacath Anyway?

What is a Portacath Anyway?

November 24, 2015

What is a Portacath? That’s the question Gordon asked me as soon as Dr Jim Coward (the oncologist) left the room to get something.  I vaguely remembered that there was discussion about my  mother having a Portacath when she was going through her Bowel Cancer journey in 2007. When Dr Coward walked back into the room,…

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“He has a Bleeding Ulcer”

August 9, 2015

8th – 9th August, 2015 When we got to the hospital, Gordon was transferred to Intensive Care because he had lost so much blood. They decided to do an endoscopy and put a tube into his stomach to see what was causing the bleeding. When the specialist came to us, he said

How Our Cancer Journey Began

How Our Cancer Journey Began

August 7, 2015

This is the day our lives changed and my cancer journey began. On August 7, 2015. The date I’ll never forget. We had been down the Gold Coast for a few days. We had just returned home from our honeymoon 2 weeks previously and it was lovely to see my 15 year old daughter again.…

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