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Hello and welcome to Ume and the Big C. I'm Deborah James, otherwise known on social media

as Val Babe. And this week I'm joined by Lauren, otherwise known as Girl Vestus Cancer on

social media. Hi Lauren. Good morning my gorgeous girl. I'm very excited to speak to you.

I know it's the first time in a while isn't it? First time in a while I'm just blooming

glad your blood year on the podcast. For those of you that haven't listened to the first

recording just to set the scene, I just gone through a medical emergency and I think I

was a little bit shocked to be what even is still here. These recordings are about a week

later when I've just been transferred from Chasing Westminster Hospital back to the Royal

Mazda and after a few really good days I was really having quite a bad day. Hello good

morning it is day 8 from the Big Brother Hospital. I'm not feeling very great today I have

to be honest. I think this is about kind of hitting me with the realisation that I'm

really not ready to go home so I'm here for the long haul or hopefully not too long.

Today I've got a day of procedures ahead of me so I have I believe it's called a Kalantagam

which is basically to check that the operation they did the other day is working. I've got

some scans and then possibly an actual another operation on to general anesthetic. I'm kind

of nil by mouth from about half an hour, it's currently 6.30 in the morning. I'm surviving

on not much sleep and I think it's now catching up with me. I managed to get some sleep last

night about three hours or four hours which is fine but you start to lose your mind a

little bit. I didn't get out of bed yesterday. I'm day 3 attached to kind of a variety of

different drains, one draining a siteys and the other draining my bowl's up which is

really smelly. I hate it and I just am feeling I don't know I'm having a bad start to the

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