The most important thing to remember also Dan is that you are not alone. This Forum is testament to that.
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Really rooting for you here Dan. All the best, Mark.
On another note, popping along to have a listen to Nova and NSC 222 tomorrow. Should be interesting.
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Hi Mark, thank you. Let us know how you get on. You have a very fine system. Enjoy the auditions. See if you can try the 222 300NPX 250 and the 300 system as well while you’re there.
Hi Dan… Chemo is rough. When I was going through it they would prep me ahead of time with steroids it helps a lot with nausea. Did you get a Port installed? It makes things a lot simpler.
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Hi Opus. Canular is being used rather than port. It’s every three weeks. As a builder it’s probably best not having a port. A tablet is taken on day of treatment an hour before it starts. Let’s see how we get on.
Hi Dan, I remembered that your chemo treatment was starting on Monday and had been thinking of you since then and during your period of absence from the forum. It sounds awful, but I admire your strength to face it head on and your positive attitude. That is quite inspirational. May that strength and positive attitude continue. I wish you all the best.
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Hi Dan, hope you can get the adverse effects of the chemo to a bearable level. Everyone on this forum is clearly, and without doubt, rooting for you.
Your courage and resilience is an inspiration! Stay strong over these next few weeks mate and remember the collective will of everyone on here is with you !
Numbers will be limited I’m afraid. IIRC Naim limit group visits to under 10 as more than that becomes unwieldy and can create problems within the confines of some of the factory’s tight spaces.
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@Richard.Dane, do please pass my email on to Dan, with my apologies for adding to his list!
Would also be very much up for a factory visit, though during the working week may be tricky for us wage slaves. That said, if any of the assembled party could stick around into the evening of the relevant day, I could drive down for a meal and pint in Salisbury which would be great too. Fish and chips at 11 Salt Lane, perhaps?
@Dan_M My wife had chemo in early 2022 - I’ve seen how unpleasant it is. She found that sleeping through it (an ability to sleep being practically her superpower) was the best thing to get through it, but everyone’s different. She found the effects of each round got progressively less unpleasant, so I do hope that happens for you too.
Mark
Hi @Dan_M
As I mentioned before, I have been through some rough times with my health, but somehow always seemed to manage to come out the other side.
In 2013, when I went through my ‘die if you don’t have it’ surgery that they gave me a 10% chance of surviving, I was convinced that it was the end.
Will’s done, everything signed over to my wife except the house and Sky (they are such a*holes).
Said goodbye to friends and family. I was too ill to get drunk one last time🤷🏻♂️
A really bleak picture and time of great distress.
Amazingly and against the odds, I woke up.
NEVER, EVER give up man!
It isn’t over until the lights go out.
I hope I get the chance to meet up with you after your Chemo, whether at Naim or just over a Coffee & a Donut.
You have the spirit and the will.
I look forward to that meeting.
Sending all the best wishes, Simon
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Mrs Mike’s cancer and chemo journey wasn’t fun I’m afraid, but she made it with a full recovery and is just on a monitoring routine now. Diagnosed at the start of the NZ Covid lockdown I was unable to attend any appointments, surgery and only the last chemo treatment. Most of those were out of town and I had to bring Miss Mike with us, and of course we couldn’t go anywhere. I sat with our daughter in our motel room at the first chemo treatment with her asking whether mum was going to die.
Most notably, she had the rare life threatening severe reaction to her first chemo treatment. We had been told to prepare for this if it happened, a rapid rise in temperature - which occurred. The procedure is to get an emergency drug treatment at a hospital within 20 - 30 minutes. So, calling the Oncologist, who calls the hospital in advance, and going straight to hospital and not waiting for an ambulance. It took us 20 minutes to get to the hospital, which was in lockdown mode with tents and security and they wouldn’t let her in because she had a temperature! After some drama she was let in, and Miss Mike and I were left outside in the cold. That was a low point.
But here we are now, the best part of three years to fully recover from the treatment. People who do these treatments and real heros. It’s hard. It’s cuts to the very meaning of existence and unconditional love. Go well Dan and all of those sharing their stories and giving support.
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like many here cancer has touched us too.
My wife had a biopsy for a little spot on her finger - 2 days later the consultant called and said it was an extremely aggressive cancer and 4 days after that he amputated the top half of her finger.
that was about 6 years ago so she has had the all clear from that one - she has a history of skin cancers and the NHS is no longer has a ‘seen on symptom’ process for skin issues so rather worrying.
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I’ve had three goes to remove melanoma on my face and some less risky stuff cut from my arm. After the first go on my face, I moved from the public health system to a private skin cancer specialist to avoid a skin graft and two more minot operations to get enough margins around the melanoma . I’m all clear from that now and have regular full body checks for monitoring through that private clinic, which is a much higher level of care. If she can find a good private specialist, then regular check ups is the way to stay ahead of things.
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Sorry to hear this.
The waiting for appointments and test results in my experience can be some of the toughest times and knowing whilst not always easy does at least leave you clearer about what the options and prognosis are. Hoping you get encouraging news from the appointment.
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All the very best , enjoy the music
Ian
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In order to keep the thread on topic, I think it’s time to suggest that if members wish to continue discussing things other than system Pics, please do start a new thread.
Dan, obviously members want to wish you well and also will wish to “hold your hand” on your difficult journey ahead, so it might be best to start a new dedicated thread in the Lounge. It will make it easier to follow too so it doesn’t get lost amongst the HiFi pics…
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I think I have posted this link here before to my blog about my experiences with a cancer diagnosis, going through treatment, living with cancer and now living beyond it.
It might be helpful for some of you or people you know.
This is the link to the most recent post WordPress.com
You can go back to the beginning, if you wish, by reading this naive and in hindsight overly optimistic post, where I had deliberately taken the consultant’s words out of context and made them fit the outcome I wanted. He actually said, up to 80% with an early diagnosis would survive and my treatment for advanced cancer was curative rather than palliative. I did this for a variety of reasons, partly for me but mostly to protect people who cared about me from the likely outcome that I was in the group not likely to make it. I know that I am extremely fortunate to still be here and due to my ignoring of a persistent sore throat I thought it was due to moving to an office with air-con I nearly wasn’t.
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This is my A/V system on which the UnitiQute plays an important part, I use it as a DAC and when I finally get my broadband sorted out to stream from internet radio
My big Pioneer is a Universal Player and does really well on sound quality from films , less so on CD
It could be ( and I have had some big bills ) that I will switch my CD 5si to the CDX2.2 ( it has digital out only ) in the audio system and install the UnitiQute , this will enable me to use the DAC in the UnitiQute
The UnitiQute to be replaced by an ifi Zen in the AV system.
Ian
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Looks like a Target Audio rack.
DG…
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