Cancer and baby equals chaos

  • Number 5!

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Well that's chemo number 5 out of the way!  It was a long wait today, we arrived at 9:30 as usual and were sent straight to the day ward for Rich to settle himself on a bed (after his fainting episode he is no longer allowed to sit in the comfy chairs).  Tracy, his assigned nurse, came and put the heat pack on his hand straight away and after a few minutes Dr Mike came and put his cannula in.

    Then we waited, and waited…

  • Twas the night before chemo....

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    I hate the night before chemo, I feel nervous, sick, scared, anxious and a million and one other negative things.  I worry about how he will react, how many times he will be sick, how long will it take for him to start feeling better.....thank goodness im not the one having the chemo otherwise id be a gibbering mess on the floor!

    We are still waiting to hear from Cardiff about the lumbar puncture and spinal chemo and i…

  • Friends!!

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Friends!!

    There is one thing in life that you can always rely on and guarantee and that's friendship.

    I am very lucky to have an impressive number of friends, these friends are always there day and night, they keep my feet on the ground, they listen to my every moan, they cry with me and laugh with me.  They are never too busy to offer advice or "give me a slap with a wet fish".  They never cease to…

  • Life after the big C?

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Today I took down the xmas decorations, cleaned the lounge from top to bottom and relished in the normality now that xmas is out of the way, this led me to thinking how we will feel when (fingers crossed) Rich is cancer free.

    Will life just go back to normal again or will there always be that "fear" that it will come back? Do you panic with every sniffle/ache/slight pain? Can you ever fully relax? I am sure there are…

  • Fate?

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Fate?

    Do you believe in fate or is life just a bunch of coincidences? I have been thinking about this a lot today because there are so many things in my life that can be put down to fate that I wonder if it is possible? Let me explain...
    Rich was born in Essex, me in Wales. By chance (fate?) his family had always holidayed in this area and decided to move here. Had that not happened then we would have never…