The Good Life

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I cannot fathom how Peter can look so well on the outside  yet be so wafty on the inside, but that is how it is. Luckily with fantastic medical care he has managed to drag himself back to near normality, and we can once again enjoy life and live it.

 The 2nd attempt at a family hot air balloon flight was cancelled yesterday due to high wind .

Somehow I have managed to choose the two windiest days this summer. So we went out for a really nice meal instead, its was a smashing evening all together round the table Peter laughing and looking so well. Only one thing worries us ...... If the flights keep getting cancelled, and we have these meals out instead,        Will we end up to fat to fly?....

Peter and I spent last weekend in Brighton the hotel was awful but we had  fun on the pier, an interesting tour of the Pavilion. and enjoyed the normality of the break. Time between appointments doesn't allow us to travel far but we have been to several shows. and days out on coach trips.with more booked way into next year.

Its not all good tho

Monday I test drove a new car wearing my reading glasses, Peter said all this effort to get me well and your trying to kill me on the road.....

I got shouted at on  Tuesday morning for taking the hosepipe off the tap, Peter went out to water the plants and  couldn't find it, MEN!  I went outside to look and man eyes......... he hadn't noticed we had been robbed in the night, garden furniture etc even the hosepipe all gone........ without me I wonder when he would have noticed. Ha!

The young men who cut down the trees after I stopped Peter doing it had stood in my garden and used that hosepipe to shower themselves as they were so hot and sweaty...

Phew Diet Coke Break had nothing on that ............. I will always remember that hosepipe..............

 

 

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  • FormerMember
    FormerMember
    I found your blog at 5.30am after another night of not being able to sleep. I went back to bed to catch an hour of sleep before going to work. My first job on coming home has been reading all your pages and it's as if I could have written them myself even down to the symptoms and dates leading up to the diagnosis and the diagnosis itself and the treatment that Peter has had. My husband is in exactly the same situation, inoperable tumour of the oesophagus and it has spread to 3 or 4 different areas. Stent wise he had the permanent one fitted in March which has given him grief but at least he can now eat. Age wise my husband is 20 years younger than Peter. He has continued to work as much as possible as he's self employed. My husbands chemotherapy finished in May after 5 cycles he couldn't face the 6th. At the moment his oncologist at The Christie hospital is monitoring the situation very closely with the next appoint next Tuesday. They had referred him to look at Radiotherapy as he's in a lot of pain in his lower back which is probably from cancer that has spread but the radiologist didn't think that was going to help. He's sleeping now and in the last couple of days he's been sick for no particular reason and this doesn't help with the weight battle issues. Like you said it's like been on a nightmare roller coaster. Thank you for taking the time to do a blog. I could reconstruct our experience from my hand written diary and like I say it would look very similar to yours even down to your humour. Take Care
  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Hi Corrin, It is strange everyone is different yet so many journeys on here are so similar, I appreciate your comment, I don't do facebook or any thing like that so this blog is a first for me. I am not good at keeping everyone we know up to speed on how Peter is. so I told them that if I drop of the radar they can follow us here and it works as my blog posts do give them a flavor of how we are. It is a hell of a journey we are all on  the ups and downs twists and turns. 

    Any way I am pleased you are under  The Christie I understand it is  very very good and I hope your husbands pain and sickness will soon be under control. he is very young and I admire his resilience working although I assume self employed forces the issue a bit. I know it must also  hard on you working and worrying. 

    As to our shared sense of humour, I am glad you smile sometimes and see the funny side. I do worry a little when my blog posts seem flippant but I don't want to only record the tears.

    Best Wishes to you both :) Mushtyx