Clearing my head

  • Near the end

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Haven't posted for a few months but I need to today. My stepmum has maybe a week or two before the cancer finally wins. It sounds terrible but I hope it is soon, she's struggling so much and so is my poor dad. 

    After a stay in hospital due to her lung filling up with fluid she finally got back home on Good Friday - where she wants to be when the time comes. Two of her sisters are staying at the house and are a…

  • You couldn't make it upM

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    What a weekend - it's been kind of been one of the worst emotionally that I can remember. Sunday was mum's anniversary - 12 years. Never a good time of year but this year it's been a totally stressful time.

    My stepmum had been in the same hospital since the beginning of the week, because of sickness etc so was having hadher  pain relief and anti-sickness drug levels sorted out as well as various other tests…

  • First Blog

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    I've no idea if anyone will read this and to be honest it doesn't really matter - I just need to get some of what is going through my head 'down on paper' well on the laptop!

    On Sunday it will be 12 years since we lost mum to breast cancer. This year it's all the more poignant because my stepmum (dad remarried a couple of years after we lost mum) has just been given the news we've been dreading that she…