I'm still blogging because I'm still here! A blog is supposed to be a peersonal account of each one of us' journey along the cancer path. No two will be the same.
I've joined the group for those living with an incurable or terminal cancer diagnosis and my reading there makes me understand how lucky I am at this stage of the journey. I'm 81 and I've had my wonderful, interesting life. I could reasonably have expected to live for another 5-10 years and die of something anyway. Now I have a terminal diagnosis but not an estimate of how long or how easy my future will be. I haven't posted anything in this group yet as I am still reading other postings and learning how others are coping.
At the moment I'm staying with my eldest son's family. He is a new grandfather and I have met my charming great-grandchild aged 3 weeks. Life comes full circle and I can clearly remember my son at the same age developing his personality from small beginings with his young and inexperienced parents! He will soon take over as the leader of our remarkable, international family.
I am so lucky that my wife and I have a scattered family that never-the-less all keeps in close contact with eachother whenever they can. The children were always close and kept their parents in order. Now they rally to our assistance when we need them in our old age. They cope with my cancer diagnosis and me in a sensible way, difficult to describe, but open, loving and helpful. I have not had to put up with relatives and friends behaving badly, as I have read too often on the Macsite. The family helps me to remain positive without shutting out the problem as though it didn't exist. Roll on 2014
