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General Discussion => Birthdays and Events => Topic started by: CLKD on September 28, 2014, 03:04:35 PM
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has decided not to have any more chemotherapy treatment as her cancer has spread :'(
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I saw the headline but have not read much about it.
Very sad news.
Honeyb
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this is sad, I really like her :(
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i have just read about this too. So sad for her. Also it was only found when she went to the doctor for a routine check up so i assume she didn't have any symptoms of the bowel cancer at the time.
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So sad. Hope she gets her wish for Christmas. :(
My brother gets precancerous polyps removed annually from his colon. He had no idea either.
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I like her.
It's such a shame. :'(
Can understand her not wanting more chemotherapy.
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She looks very thin nowadays. Such a cruel disease.
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Just read her story. What a terrible thing to happen. Poor poor soul.
Honeyb
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Poor lady. Such a shame.
Remember her as the mum in the Oxo ads.
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I will be reading her story in the Telegraph later.
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Lynda spoke on BBC early today …… she seems to be in a 'good' place now having accepted that she will stop chemo ……..
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She looks so terribly ill.....poor poor soul, I think she is very brave.
Honeyb
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She is terribly ill - she wants to 'see' C.mas :-\ ……. but I think she's done the 'right' thing in giving her family the chance to say 'goodbye' - sometimes treatment is worse than the disease …….
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I know CLKD, but why be so public about the whole thing. Maybe quietly and with some privacy.
Honeyb
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She's done the quiet in privacy bit and because colon cancer is not talked about in the way that breast cancer is, felt that by giving publicity to it more people would come forward with symptoms. We don't 'do' bottoms in the UK do we :-\ and in the States :o ………..
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Well yes we do up here.
We have our bowel test kits and a very prominent TV add with a man sitting on the toilet talking about bowel cancer.
I still don't understand the want for publicity at this the most private time. Different strokes for different folks I guess.
Honeyb
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I think we 'do' bottoms in the part of England where I live too. Adults are sent screening kits at a certain age and I often hear radio and see TV 'adverts' about reporting symptoms and changes in bowel habits to one's GP.
Lynda Bellingham seems to be everywhere at the moment - spreading the word about bowel cancer and talking about her new book.
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Screening kits for those aged 60+ ;)
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I got my first screening kit two weeks after my 50th birthday.
Honeyb
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I can think of nicer 50th birthday presents ;)
Joking apart, I'm glad that the NHS offers screening, albeit at different ages in different parts of UK. I don't know what the take-up rate is for the faecal occult blood test - it's pretty simple and non-invasive but I suppose some people won't engage in the process anyway.
People at high risk of bowel cancer can have screening from a younger age in certain circumstances.
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I've just sent off my latest one. Been getting since 50. Unfortunately my brother slipped through the net & didn't get his first until 65. He's had treatment for precancerous cells.
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We get them at 60 here. I did mine but my husband didn't even though he lost his mum to bowel cancer when she was 43. I've given up trying to persuade him.
The only thing which worries me slightly over the testing programme is that it will only show a positive result if you have a tumour which is bleeding at the time of the test. This may lead to people not reporting signs of bowel cancer to their doctor if they have had a negative result. I do appreciate that it's better than not testing at all though.
Taz x
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Just saw her on This Morning. She was looking remarkable, considering.
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Have had my bowel cancer tests done, it is a bit off putting actually doing the samples though. .
I do think that Linda Bellingham carefully planned speaking out about her bowel cancer to coincide with her book release, because when she was first diagnosed she stated that she wanted to keep it private and not talk about it.
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I didn't talk about my cancer until well after treatment and prognosis. Couldn't deal with the feelings of others, particularly family!
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There's just been an interview with her on Woman's Hour.
She's amazing.
Life is so cruel.
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It doesn't seem as if she has actually says she will stop her cancer treatment http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2784995/I-HAVEN-T-decided-die-says-Lynda-Bellingham-urges-talk-unsexy-diseases-like-bowel-cancer.html but that she has taken on board the fact she can make that decision after Christmas.
Taz x
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That was my understanding of it too Taz.
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I didn't listen to all of the interview carefully.
Think LB had said early on she wanted her sons to remember her as being well.
One thing I do remember is Jenni Murray saying at the end "I'll miss you Bellingham"
They both just chuckled.
It seemed so sad.
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I'm sure she will make a huge impact by going public at such a time. I remember reading or hearing about the huge increase in uptake on cervical smears following Jade's untimely death a few years ago. Wishing her well.
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She decided on 12 August to stop treatment. She wants to get through C.mas.
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She made the decision to stop after Christmas if she wants to I think - well that's how I interpreted this part
" 'When you're in terrible pain, you make decisions.'
She told hosts Phillip Schofield and Amanda Holden: 'I want my husband and children to see me off happy, contented.
'So I put the chemotherapy in a box.
'In this box, I could stop the chemotherapy after Christmas - I'm determined to hang on until Christmas.
'If my quality of life fades after that, I want to be able to open the box, make a choice and stop the chemotherapy"
Taz x
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That's how I read it too.
Honeyb
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Think media have misconstrued what she actually said/meant. My understanding when I watched her on TM was that she wants to get through Christmas, if the disease will let her. Then she can stop chemo. My SIL was similar with her cancer, she got through Christmas but passed just into the New Year. That was nearly 20 years ago now.
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Died yesterday in her husbands arms. :'(
RIP Linda
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So sad :'( :'( :'( :'(
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I am so sad for this, that she did not get her christmas with her family. She was a brave and inspirational lady.
I do not normally feel the loss of a celebrity deeply but I am this lady, I admired her greatly for many years, she was an ambassador for women.
Lets honour her campaign to get people to send in their poo tests for checking.
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was she, I didn't know that katsclaws.
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I agree BJ, it's such a shame she did not get her wish. I did think she looked terribly ill when she appeared on TV a few weeks ago so I'm not terribly surprised.
It's so very sad......lovely lady who only had ten years with her Mr Spain.
Honeyb
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So so sad.
Especially her not getting get the last Christmas the wanted so much.
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I wonder if they'll still screen her last Loose Women appearance where she said goodbye to everyone? I hope they do.
Taz x
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They said on This Morning it will be screened on Loose Women on Wednesday Taz.
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Thank you. Not that watch Loose Women but friends at work were talking about it today before we heard that she had died.
Having seen two friends die from secondary liver cancer over the past couple of years I am pleased that she is at peace as it is so upsetting to watch someone die from such a painful cancer. I feel sorry for her husband in that he so wanted to let her die at home but sometimes hospital/hospice care is necessary in the final hours.
Taz x
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Apparently she was in so much pain, that she needed hospital/hospice care. My brother's first wife survived about 6 weeks after her chemo. She did manage one final Christmas though with her family.
Lynda is now at peace.
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We have a marvellous Hospice at Home service here which enables even patients experiencing really high pain levels at end of life to be treated at home. I think the hospice movement is wonderful and support it whenever I can.
Taz x
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In the mid 1990's my MIL had bone cancer and lymphona.
She had many stints in the local hospice.
That was a very happy place.
Sounds strange, but it was.
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Shes remembered in Ozz not for the OXO adds we didnt get them
But for ALL CEATURES and other TV Dramas played here on Ozz equiv of BBC here its ABC
I watched it as a young women in Wallasey where I lived before I migrated it was HUGE here when I got here
I have SKY we call it FOXTELL and watch UK news its on 24/7 I sometimes find the irony
I see news Before you do sometimes It was only on the UK@OZZ news a week or 2 ago she was sick
I wish shed been able to last till Christmas I hope all the interviews in the last week or so didnt hasten it
It probably did but to go that I dought poor women would have lasted another 9 weeks its so sad
I feel sad for her Husband and family its easy to say shes not in pain cos we r still here
God bless her xxxx
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RIP. Now pain free.
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Just watched last interview on loose women so sad what an incredible woman she is, loved by so many, may you rest now Linda
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DH turned it off >:( :kick:
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I am going to watch it on catch up later, there was a bit of it on the lunchtime news. I admire that woman so very much.
CLKD, do you not have any say over what you watch?
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Not in Mother's house ::)
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Ah, I did not know you were visiting, that explains it :)
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I would have watched but everything is an 'issue' to her >:( ….. it would be "Oh dear, such a lovely lady why did she have to die" … over and over and - so Himself switched the off button ……...
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Sorry to resurrect this old thread, but has anyone else read her book? Oh my goodness I sobbed - especially reading it after she had passed - so incredibly sad, what a brave lady
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Not yet. On my list to buy ………. probably from a charity shop
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I am half way through. It is just as though she is talking with the way she writes. Not looking forward to sobbing though
Mine is going to charity when finished CLKD. Shame we are not allowed to exchange address or I would like to send it to you
On a side note, the charity I pass to have made £119 from my sales...brilliant! :) (http://:))
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I got it on my kindle for 99p on one of those daily deals - I do love my kindle - and I was one of those people who thought I'd hate not having a "real" book lol
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Thanks for the tip off - it's no longer a 'daily deal' but still under £3 and I've just bought it :thankyou: