So right now Im on Hospital family accommodation in Basingstoke and my mum is on the ward. Its so strange. I have been waiting for this day for months and now its here I want to run away. Mum's big op is on Tuesday and its sixteen hours plus long. Its so surreal. Its a radical treatment called the sugar baker technique that will drain her mucus out of her stomach/abdo/ torso area and then they will apply warm chemo directly…
My mum's first consultation with an oncologist that specializes in her kind of cancer is tomorrow. Mum has a rare cancer called Pseudomyxoma peritonei so rare in fact that your chances of getting it are 1 in 1,000,000. Problem is because its so rare there are only 2 hospitals in the UK that can deal with mum one in Manchester and one in Basingstoke so our closest is Basingstoke about 55 miles away. She wants me to go…
Hi I'm Elise and I am 23. I have never written a blog before but I thought it might help.
Ok where to start? When I was 13 my dad died of cancer of the oesophagus. It was hard and people at school never treated me the same after my time off grieving. Mum was my strength, we became very close like best friends. i move away when I started uni. I moved to bristol from hertfordshire. I graduated and found it hard to…
