deejay's blog

We got the worst news today. Our lovely, kind, newly-married son (9months) has a tumour too. My cancer is hereditary. And he has a tumour measuring 11 cms in his abdomen next to the left kidney. I am beyond grief - I feel sort of dead. When you know you have cancer yourself, and it's an incurable type it's bad enough. When you find out your only child has it too - well, multiply that bad feeling by about a 1000. Sorry…

I could really do with some words to calm me down. I have a rare form of cancer which is hereditary, a dominant gene which offspring have a 50-50 chance of inheriting, I have 1 son of 24, newly married, starting to forge his way in life, career etc. He had a scan on Thursday to see if he has any tumours, and he casually told me this afternoon that the doctor rang him on Friday afternoon and asked him to go and see her…

Hi - Anyone doing the Maidstone 'raceforlife' on 17th May? If so, please say hello if you see me - I'm no. 610 and will probably look worn out and knackered! Jeanie x

There is a magpie in my garden. Every day I look out of the window, there he is. Alone. I'm sure he has a partner, in the tree or something, but he never takes her out. So I wave every morning, and say 'Hello Mr magpie, where's your wife today?' Stupid I know. But I can't seem to break the habit. For anyone who read my blog yesterday, I feel slightly better today. Yesterday I ranted and shouted at the clear blue sky,…

Hi Everyone, I haven't been very active so far on this site - but find myself logging on more and more. Also, have shied away from writing blogs etc, too shy. But now I need to talk about things, or fear I'll crack up. I have very rare cancer called 'phaeochromocytoma', which is a tumour arising in the adrenal gland.It's linked to another type of tumour called paraganglioma, which usually starts in head and neck, but…