annief's blog

No - not the sort with ox and ass. Ali is stable six months after diagnosis of inoperable pancreatic cancer. She is enjoying very good quality of life - still doing her Arabic Dance and doing lunch with friends. The first month on steroids she was high as a kite but now has dose sorted so she is not high but not feeling sick either.

We haven't a clue how long we have left and clearly don't forget it but have managed…

O my God it is so bloody intense. I am worried about her - she is looking a bit green around the gills today and has has a couple of nasty bouts of nausea. She is worried about me - sometimes I actually look more ill than she does - tired and pinched. I had a really hard weekend at work and just feel desperately upset most of the time. We have just come to the end of a fortnight of visits from relatives from whom we don…

Yesterday I went with my Civil Partner so that she could talk with the Oncologist about possible ways forward. There was an underlying assumption that she would want chemotherapy and even that she would want to join a trial. She was very distressed by this rather aggressive attitude and finally decided to postpone a decision for another six weeks. She has been told that she has less than a year and six months of that…

Hello out there, My Civil partner was diagnosed a few weeks ago with an inoperable adinocarcinoma and the biopsy has confirmed it. She is 54 and was working until diagnosis. We now know that we have possibly a year together until she dies. We have entered a new and strange kingdom called Cancerworld which is full of MST and movicol and trips in all directions. We are waiting for the Oncologist to leap into action and…