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Hi all I'm off on holiday tonight for a week, spoke to mum last night and she seems fine but not really looking forward to starting chemotherapy. This isn't happening straight away now though as she has an infection under her arm where her lymph nodes were removed and they can't start chemo until that's cleared up. So she's on some strong antibiotics and may not start the first cycle of chemo until after I'm back. I…

Well, Mum was diagnosed with brest cancer just before Christmas, though, other than my Dad she didn't tell anyone until the New Year. We were all together over Christmas, 11 of us in the immediate family with the happy announcement that another is on the way in July which will be Mum & Dad's fourth grandchild. Presumably not wanting to spoil the Christmas mood, Mum kept her news to herself until we all got home which…