Here are a series of video blogs outlining the major steps in my bone marrow transplant.
Adrian Sudbury was a reporter for both the Huddersfield Express and Chronicle Series and the Huddersfield Examiner. In November 2006 the 25-year-old was promoted to digital journalist, effectively editing the new-look Examiner website.
Just two days into his new role he became seriously ill and called in sick. A week later he drove himself to A&E and was eventually diagnosed with leukaemia.
It was then identified that he actually had two distinct types of the disease running at the same time. According to the medical literature he was the only person in the world to have this condition. As such, it was not possible to offer Adrian a prognosis.
Here he shared his experiences of the disease and his treatment up until his passing.
Firstly, congratulations on making it into the times - I'm not sure it's quite the way you wanted to go about it....
I hope everything goes well tomorrow and I look forward to seeing more of your videos you handsome devil!
Love ya loads!
Tom
PS I'm glad to see they got in a shot of you massive hands!!!
Hey, Adrian, read about you in the UKPG.
How come you've kept your eyebrows? 4 months into chemo and I'm bald everywhere!! Maybe it's because I've managed to keep working in between blasts (different sort of cancer from yours) and the newsdesk has made me tear out whatever remained.
Best of luck, sunshine. Cancer is horrid but I sometimes think it's worse for those we love.
xx
Adrian,
Best of luck with the treatment.
I've had cancer myself so I know what you're going through and I think it's great that you've gone public. It will hopefully bring a bit of understanding around this horrible disease that so many people fear.
Be brave and take one day at the time :)
:hugs:
Christa
Mate - I'm still full of admiration for you.
Keep smiling.
Ben
Adrian, you are coping amazingly with your illness. Best of luck for the future xxx
Kirstin
Adrian, you are coping amazingly with your illness. Best of luck for the future xxx
Kirstin
Watching with interest to see how you go, I am
going to undertake the same treatment in the
near future I have myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS for short). Good luck - hope you don't scare me to death!
Adrian,
I have just found your website through Hold the Front Page and felt compelled to contact you.
My mum was diagnosed with Acute Myloid Leukaemia at the beginning of June 2006 at the age of 52.
She spent just two weeks at home between then and the end of November when she was finally discharged.
In some respects she was lucky because she was able to take part in a trial which meant she only needed two lots of chemotherapy.
The trouble was the drugs were so strong she beat the hospital's record or the amount of days it took for her immune system to recover.
She took nearly two months after the second lot of chemo to get her levels back to something like normal.
The drugs were so strong they obliterated any sign of the cancer after the first of what was due to be four courses. She only had the two because of the length of time it took her body to recover.
While in hospital she had c-diff, pnemonia, mouth infections, scepticema and numerous other infections.
But the good news is that after all that she has survied.
She is now back at work part time and has been on holiday abroad.
She still gets very tired, her immune sytem will never be what it was and she has been told she still only has a 50 per cent chance of surviving.
But we are very optimistic. Even at her most ill the wonderful doctors and nurses were impressed with her attitude.
I think there are two messages I have after our experience.
Make sure you go to your doctor as soon as you feel unwell. A quick diagnosis seems to make all the difference.
And most importantly stay positive. It's a patronising thing to say, I know. But in all the time my mum was in hospital we saw the difference between people who had given up all hope and those who were determined to fight what they had.
Good luck with your fight, I wish you all the best.
Marie
Adrian,
I have just found your website through Hold the Front Page and felt compelled to contact you.
My mum was diagnosed with Acute Myloid Leukaemia at the beginning of June 2006 at the age of 52.
She spent just two weeks at home between then and the end of November when she was finally discharged.
In some respects she was lucky because she was able to take part in a trial which meant she only needed two lots of chemotherapy.
The trouble was the drugs were so strong she beat the hospital's record or the amount of days it took for her immune system to recover.
She took nearly two months after the second lot of chemo to get her levels back to something like normal.
The drugs were so strong they obliterated any sign of the cancer after the first of what was due to be four courses. She only had the two because of the length of time it took her body to recover.
While in hospital she had c-diff, pnemonia, mouth infections, scepticema and numerous other infections.
But the good news is that after all that she has survied.
She is now back at work part time and has been on holiday abroad.
She still gets very tired, her immune sytem will never be what it was and she has been told she still only has a 50 per cent chance of surviving.
But we are very optimistic. Even at her most ill the wonderful doctors and nurses were impressed with her attitude.
I think there are two messages I have after our experience.
Make sure you go to your doctor as soon as you feel unwell. A quick diagnosis seems to make all the difference.
And most importantly stay positive. It's a patronising thing to say, I know. But in all the time my mum was in hospital we saw the difference between people who had given up all hope and those who were determined to fight what they had.
Good luck with your fight, I wish you all the best.
Marie
Hi A Drain !
just watched all the videos. Your an amazing person, very brave not many people would stay positve but thats just you isn't it ?
If you can work 8.00 am till 8.00 am on a "cocktail bar" ( a cocktail bar that didn't sell cocktails) then you can do anything. You have proved that.
When ever you want mate me and Lou are connected to MSN all day so here's our MSN user bits "n" bobs .
rob1184@hotmail.co.uk
yes you've guessed it we've got married.
Hope to hear from you soon .
Rob & Lou
Adrian, i was reading the times this morning when i spotted an article about your award.It was the name Sudbury that attracted me to the piece, i ,too, am a Sudbury. It was only as i read on that i realised that you are Keith's (my cousin) son. I had no idea that you had been so poorly and had such a fight on your hands. I send you and your mum and dad my love and support( even though you support Forest!!).
Congratulations on your award, typical of a Sudbury to still be the best despite great adversity!
May your god and medical science keep you well.
With love Anne May (nee Sudbury) XX
hi adrian i think ur an amazing person keep thinking positive all the best xxx
to other readers......
i am a nurse on a haematology and BMT unit in the south east. I have only recently found this blog and it has been an amazing read. i work with patients going through the same things every day and reading adrians account has been so insightful. I'm really pleased that he was well supported by the health care professionals around him and hope that our patients feel the same way.
Having read the blog i feel i have a better understanding of the horrible disease and situaions that patients are faced with and how and why they cope with it as they do.
I will definately be passing on details about the blog to my collegues!!!!
So.....thankyou to adrian for helping me to understand (a little better)
rachel