April is the cruellest month

  • Grrr! A rant on St George's Day

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    To all those people who have professed sympathy and understanding of my situation by saying, "Oh, remember, I do know what you are going through because I went through this with 2 friends, my aunty's rabbits, Great Uncle Sergei the Meerkat....." I would like to say the following.

    No, you don't know. You absolutely do not know. You may have some insight, but you have not been where I'm standing so don't…

  • Today is a new day

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Well here we are at the start of a new day and am trying to look for all the good things.

    Yesterday evening we came home from husband's first radiotherapy session to find a beautiful miniature rose plant on the doorstep with a card from the folks who live across the road to say they were thinking of us both.

    On Sunday, we finally got to have the Big Tea Party we'd planned for David's birthday in February but had…

  • April is the cruellest month

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Have tried to write this several times.

    April - one minute warm sunshine, glad to leave winter behind then driving cold sleet, grey clouds and yuk. 

    One minute we were celebrating the results of my husband's scan half-way through chemo, then Bam. Take that, you silly humans! Thought you'd escaped, didn't you. You don't get away from me so easily. Can't even begin to explain what's happened over the past couple of weeks…