zoelaw's blog

Have just logged on and found all the lovely messages of support from everyone, thank you so much. I will respond but am just a little too emotional right now. We met Joe's surgeon yesterday - i'm in shock, we are all in shock. He says that Joe must have a total gastrectomy because he believes that the cancer is a genetic fault within the stomach itself. I just didnt expect this and have absolutely no idea what this…

15 days ago my world changed. My sweet and gentle 19 year old son had an endoscopy, following 3 weeks of vomitting, and a 3cm stomach ulcer was found. The days that followed have been absolute agony, there was a 'mix-up' with communication and nobody told us that the biopsies showed a malignancy. How the mind runs wild without sufficient information - this has not been helped by the fact that I am a student nurse and…