The Anonymous Widower

Coeliac Journey Through Covid-19 – A Few Bad Years

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A Few Bad Years

In 2007, my wife died of what her consultant at Papworth said was one of the worst cancers he’d ever seen. It was a squamous cell carcinoma of the heart.

Her’s was the only occurrence in the UK that year and someone told me, there were four in the United States.

Our youngest son; George, then died of pancreatic cancer in 2009.

When I had been diagnosed as a coeliac in 1997, my wife and I had told our sons to get themselves tested, as is now advised on the NHS web site.

But George was a sound engineer in the music business, who lived the unhealthy rock-and-roll lifestyle.

A year later, I had a serious stroke in Hong Kong.

I had had a warning a year or so before and Addenbrooke’s recommended I go on Warfarin, but my GP in Suffolk, talked me out of it.

Now twelve years later, my GP and myself manage my Warfarin, where I do the testing of my INR on my own meter from Roche.

But then I am a Graduate Control Engineer!

A couple of doctors have said I have made a remarkable recovery, and I’ll go along with that as the only thing I can’t do, that I could before the stroke is drive, as the stroke damaged my eyesight.

On the other hand, the latest therapy for stroke in the United States is B12 injections and I haven’t missed one of my three-monthly injections since 1997.

If anybody is doing serious research into B12 and stroke recovery, then I would be happy to be a lab-rat.

April 28, 2023 - Posted by AnonW | Health | Cancer, Cancer Research UK, Coeliac, Coeliac Journey Through Covid-19, COVID-19, COVID-19 And Coeliac Disease, INR, Liverpool University, Pancreatic Cancer, Stroke, Stroke Recovery, Warfarin