#cw: leukaemia

[kirstythejetblackgoldfish]

I’ve been reading on X that Asma requested to get a divorce from Assad, do you think this is true? I hope this isn’t true and is just rumors or gossip.

It sounds like complete and utter bullshit to me

She's got acute leukaemia and the source is CNN Turk so...

[littleprincessfawn]

((CW: medical post about my leukemia, and treatment symptoms.))

Argh my leukemia rash... it subsided but never went fully away but was something I could deal with... But now it is back again, just as bad as it was in the early stages of taking the medicine.

I'm fairly sure this rash is caused by the TKI medication I'm taking, though leukemia itself can also cause a rash.

For me the rash is just on my forearms and my scalp. On my scalp it feels HOT. Have you ever bleached your hair? If you have, you will know that chemically hot burning feeling. That's what it feels like on my scalp.

And the thing I've observed is this, after a few days of that heat and irritation of my hair follicles on my head... My hair will start to fall out again.

I hate leukemia. I hate hate hate hate it. My hair is cute. I don't wanna lose it. But oh well. If taking this medicine made ALL my hair completely fall out, I would still take it.

I will never let leukemia win. I will always fight it with the best tools possible. I'm lucky I'm alive to have this whinge about my (admittedly trivial) itchy skin and hair loss.

Life > Hair.

[multiplestrongminds]

CW: Cancer (Leukaemia), treatment, Terminal, family. Please read at your own discretion.

Unfortunately, we've had some very bad news about my mother's health. Her leukaemia hasn't stopped, and blood transfusions aren't going to be enough to keep her going. Her case is now terminal, and we can't put an estimate on how long she has left. I keep thinking that she was going to defeat cancer for the third time, but that won't be the case. Chemotherapy hasn't destroyed it completely, surgery's literally impossible, and bone marrow transplant isn't an option, as my mother isn't strong enough to handle the treatment.

As you can imagine, this has come as a shock for us. I feel like the reality of it all has just started to sink in. We've had a lot of family members coming to visit us, and it is really nice to have people that I trust over, it can be very tiring, not to mention that our family situation is very, for lack of a better word, complex. I am pleased to have been able to see two of my sisters (although I really only get on with one of my sisters now), my brother and my aunts. I haven't seen my brother in years, and neither has my mother. Everyone was here to support my mother, and I am grateful that she has that support. Both my mother and I have been referred to other services for support.

I don't know how we'll deal with this. Everything is everywhere right now. I just hope that we can get the support we need. I try my best to take care of her, but I don't know how I'll be able to keep caring for her. She usually only needs help with her balance, and sometimes getting around, but I know that she will gradually need more support. I don't know how I can help her. I struggle to care for myself, and I don't know how I can ensure that my mother is doing well.

Hopefully, with time and help, things will become clearer, and we can both be comfortable in this situation. Right now, though, everything is tiring.

~Oliver-Joseph

[flock-of-cassowaries]

Also, if you take an antibiotic in the weeks preceding a blood test ordered by a different doctor, MENTION THAT and tell them the specific antibiotic, because some of antibiotics can make your blood cell counts look weird.

[cw cancer false alarm, and general medical 🤦]

This PSA is brought to you by the time my neurologist told me that in addition to having MS (like my mother), I probably also had blood cancer (like my father and grandmother).

But no— nope! It was just that I had taken a super-strong course of Trimethoprim (aka Sulfamethoxazole, Septra, Bactrim, Cotrim, sulfatrim, and many other trade names) to kill a very persistent UTI before my regularly-scheduled immune-suppressing MS treatment, and it made my blood cell counts look bizarre.

My neurologist, whom we shall call Dr. Conclusion-Jumper, knew about the antibiotics, but didn’t prescribe them himself; and he did not think to ask which specific antibiotic I’d received.

Instead, he simply looked at my blood counts, saw they were wacky AF, and diagnosed me with possibly-probably-leukaemia.

Anyway, that was a ✨fun✨ two weeks of thinking I was about to fucking die, before he got the follow-up results back and realized his mistake. And we laughed and laughed.

I’m not mad. Not at all. It’s fine.

Remember kids! NEVER save left-over antibiotics! You should never have leftover antibiotics, because you have to finish the whole course! Not doing so, or giving your antibiotics to someone else who hasn’t been prescribed them is how we got superbugs, that are resistant to antibiotics! 

ALWAYS finish your antibiotics, even if you don’t think you’re sick anymore! NEVER give your antibiotics to other people, there is no guaruntee they will have any effect, or the same effect, and without a full course, will not help them even if it is the right medicine for the job. 

BOTH cases result in resistant superbugs, which are dangerous to everyone, and hurt everyone. You might think you’re helping your poorer friends who cannot afford an antibiotic/to be seen by a doctor, but you’re not. You’re just hurting everyone. 

[cheerfullycatholic]

Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord

[punksarahreese]

Terminal | 16:22

Medtober day 2 (event by @page-doctor-bekker 🧡)

Time of Death!AU; Ava struggles to make the right decision

Word count: 1104

CW: ghosts be dead, there is a dead baby, cancer talk

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Ava knew better, she really did, but that didn’t stop her from going to the ED. She promised herself it was just because she was bored, with no surgeries to watch in her OR for hours she felt her energy crackling like the campfires she would have with her friends back home. She needed stimulation and what better place to find something interesting than the emergency room.

The halls of Gaffney had finally begun to feel like a second home for Ava, no longer overwhelmed with the way her reality was slightly warped. She glided down the corridor comfortably now, slipping between nurses and watching as Doctor Charles shivered when she passed by him just a bit too closely. It was easy to forget how much she could still interact with the human world, especially with how much power she could feel just under her skin.

The ED was filled with life as always, yet it was also clouded by the weight of the other side. Ava had seen more spirits in this department than any other part of the hospital, somehow they all managed to come back to the emergency room even if they passed elsewhere. The wave of pain and fear that washed over her never failed to surprise Ava, though she had learned to ignore it for the sake of her stability.

There was one spirit she had trouble ignoring, though. One that always appeared like a little flash of blinding light. A pure soul, Jason had explained the light to her, someone who hadn’t done anything wrong in their life. It was near impossible to find a true pure soul, since most people had a couple sins under their belt by late childhood. This one was different, though, and Ava couldn’t seem to keep her attention on anything else as of late.

As chance would have it, she saw a flash of that light once again. She perched herself on a spare gurney, eyes tracking the man that the light always followed. Doctor Crockett Marcel, all southern drawl and confident eyes, seemed to be a pretty popular doctor since he showed up. Ava didn’t have a reason to hate him yet, though she didn’t really have a reason to like him either. She was more worried about his attachment, if she was being honest.

Eavesdropping wasn’t polite, she knew her mother would have chastised her for it even as a woman in her thirties. Still, it’s hard not to overhear everything when you’re a ghost stuck in a hospital whose walls hear everything. She had simply been floating around, trying to find something to do, and a familiar voice had caught her attention. It was Natalie Manning speaking to the new trauma surgeon, discussing something in hushed voices. Ava heard it all, though, and the story hadn’t left her mind since.

Harper had just turned one when the cancer took her, leukaemia ravaging her small body before intervention could help. Losing her had hurt Crockett far more than he let on, though Ava could feel it in the way his voice became guarded while speaking of his daughter. He wanted to protect her even in death, afraid that his memories could become tainted if in the wrong hands. Ava felt that way about her memories of Connor too, she knew it far too well.

After learning about Crockett’s daughter, Ava had trouble ignoring her. Jason said it was for the best, they shouldn’t interfere with a spirit attachment because it could harm the soul or leave them trapped. Especially for someone so young, telling Harper what was going on or why her dad didn’t pay her any mind would only damage her.

Still, she was only a baby and it hurt Ava to watch her like this. She was toddling after Crockett, watching him with big eyes as he instructed nurses to get labs and waved Will over to help with the transfer of a patient. She looked on the verge of tears, clutching onto a faded stuffed animal that seemed to resemble a rabbit. Wherever the trauma doctor went, so did his daughter, a little hand reaching out to grab the edge of his scrubs but always missing just by a thread.

It was heartbreaking, wishing she could just pick Harper up and hold her for a minute. Ava wasn’t necessarily a maternal person but she knew about sick kids, she knew they craved stability and just one good day. They never wanted to hurt and they always wanted comfort, especially from their family. She knew how hard this must be on the baby, stuck in an endless loop of trying to reach her father but missing him each time. Even as a ghost it would be so damaging to her psyche. Terminal cancer may be the worst part of being human, but the spirit world offered a never ending cycle of what if’s and pain.

“Ava, don’t do it.”

“She’s a baby, Jason.”

“She’s not your baby,” he said pointedly, materializing on the gurney to flank her right side. Ava rolled her eyes, annoyed at the way her friend always had a dramatic entrance in store.

“I know that,” Ava huffed before adding, “Don’t be an ass.”

“I didn’t do anything. You shouldn’t either, you know. Interacting with her will only make it worse.”

“She’s dead,” the blonde couldn’t tear her eyes away from where Harper stood against the wall and stared at a trauma patient her dad was working on. She looked terrified and it took all of Ava’s willpower to not let her energy go at the sight.

“So are you.”

“Yeah but I’m not a literal baby who died of terminal cancer,” she retorted, “We caused this for ourselves. She did not, she didn’t even have a chance to live.”

“And that sucks but there’s nothing we could do.”

“We could talk to her? Give her a real interaction so she doesn’t feel alone at least. The poor kid looks prettified, Jason.”

“It’s a bad idea,” he followed her gaze across the ED, “I know you care but you know-”

“Yeah yeah, the shadow people won’t like it and the hospital will react poorly if I get too upset or attached. I know, you’ve told me billions of times.”

“And yet you never listen.”

“Because she needs someone… she’s all alone and so am I; why can’t I just make sure she knows someone sees her?”

[kinnbig]

cw medical shit

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA i was meant to have a super important medical telephone appointment an hour ago. to tell me whether or not i have fucking leukaemia. but they just never called me!!!

i have been waiting for weeks for this appointment. going quietly insane. going in for so many tests that no one would tell me the results for. not knowing if i have cancer or not. spent the whole day today before this appointment thinking about it. obviously. and they just didn't ring me. and now it's past 5pm so the reception is closed and i can't get hold of anyone and i won't be able to until tomorrow. and even then................ when will they actually be able to see me?! i bet it won't be tomorrow if they reschedule.

i'm so. AAA. so anxious but also just numb. also i don't want to be percieved. no one look at me. i don't know what to do with myself i'm going insane. anyway. tbd i guess.

i'm going to start biting and maiming and clawing at the walls but not even in a good way

[dr-ladybird]

(CW: me completely losing my shit re American politics)

Shouldn’t post about American politics on Tumblr - it’s just an echo chamber anyway. But fuck it, I’m angry.

You know what I am going to point out, that I’m pretty sure most Americans on Tumblr don’t know?

In Australia we have free health care, we have free education, we have a high minimum wage, we have straightforwardly available unemployment benefits, and we’ve got a strong, stable economy that made it through the Global Financial Crisis without going into outright recession. It works. It’s completely possible. There are problems, but the problems are things like “disability pensions being hard to access” and “18-month waiting lists for a free hip replacement” and “unavailability of healthcare if you live in a community of 200 people in the middle of the desert four hours from anywhere else”, not “kids being refused chemotherapy for leukaemia if their parents are unemployed.”

We’ve got our issues (see: government uselessness re bushfires), sure. Lot of stuff we need to work on. Which is why I keep an eye on local politics and do my best to participate in it. I voted against the current idiots! Didn’t work, but I tried! Next time I try, hopefully it’ll work!

We get four weeks paid leave per year. Government enforced.

Do you want that? Then start voting, and if there’s no good option then you vote for the least bad option to avoid getting the worst option. Do you want a life outside work? Don’t rely on your boss caring about you! Join a union, so that when you’re unlucky enough to get a boss who wants to mercilessly exploit you, you’ve got some ability to fight back! Unions can cause problems themselves, but complete lack of unions is a lot worse!

The world isn’t going to improve unless people actively improve it. Saying “I have a choice between a not-very-good politician and a spectacularly awful politician, so I refuse to vote because there’s no good option?” And letting the FUCKING HORRIFIC politician win because, ooh, none of the options were bright and shiny and pure? If you do that, you’re complicit in ruining your country.

[kirstythejetblackgoldfish]

[littleprincessfawn]

I wanna cry in happiness but I can't because my emotions are all messed up about the whole leukemia thing. I've had good news!

My latest BCR-ABL test is showing my counts of those cells in my blood to be just 4.5%!! That's REALLY good.

My timeline of my blood cells that were leukemiaed:

19th of Feb '24 = 21%

1st of Mar '24 = 47.8% (yes that's 11 days later, yikes)

7th of Mar '24 = 1st dose of Dasatinib medication taken!

9th of Apr '24 = 4.5%

I am officially kicking leukemias BUTT! ... Well I mean obviously the medicine is. But I'm helping a bit, I'm sure!

Also I have not missed a SINGLE dose, not even on my worst days - as a sad disorganized ADHD lady that's no small feat!

*wraps arms around my knees and hugs myself happily*

*whispers* I'm gonna make leukemia my bitch

[ao3feed-gallavich]

I Would Sing You To Sleep

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/XElKiQC

by HeavenInAHeartbeat

Something's up with Ian, and it's serious.

CW//lots of hospital visits, sickness theme, leukaemia

Words: 1462, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Shameless (US)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M, Multi

Characters: Mickey Milkovich, Frank Gallagher, Fiona Gallagher, Monica Gallagher, Terry Milkovich, Iggy Milkovich, Joey Milkovich, Colin Milkovich, Mandy Milkovich, Lip Gallagher, Carl Gallagher, Ian Gallagher, Debbie Gallagher, Liam Gallagher (Shameless US), Samantha "Sammi" Gallagher, Sheila Jackson, Karen Jackson

Relationships: Ian Gallagher/Mickey Milkovich, Fiona Gallagher/Jimmy Lishman

Additional Tags: Cancer, Mentions of Cancer, Leukemia, Angst, sickness theme, Fluff and Angst, Sickfic, Sick Character, Hospitals

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/XElKiQC

[emptymeg]

illness cw///

my mum told me a few days ago that one of the kids i used to babysit was diagnosed with leukaemia and i’ve only just wrapped my head around it

[kirstythejetblackgoldfish]

Syrian First Lady Asma al-Assad has been diagnosed with acute leukaemia

Today, a video was posted where Asma thanked people for their heartfelt messages and how it has helped her family. She then spoke about how she is going into isolation for treatment, which means being away from her loved ones. She also said that she will fight this battle with full faith in God and with people's love and prayers

Asma was sitting behind a family photo, which was taken in Aleppo in July 2022

[kirstythejetblackgoldfish]

[kirstythejetblackgoldfish]