Apologies in advance for this blog update...I feel a rant coming on!
I'm sorry if anyone uses this phrase but I am so frustrated at hearing "sadly lost their battle to cancer", I understand that it's said from a very good place and people often don't know how to say things in times of death but it just makes me angry, in my opinion, the phrase insinuates that the person who has died, simply gave up!…
So after what felt like weeks of worries, we finally heard my husband's latest scan results!
It had been a hectic week full of work, family stuff and hospital appointments. I had already exhausted every possible outcome of what the scan could show!
After being in the cancer world for over 7 years now, I feel like I can often read a situation on what's happening, so when we were called into the office earlier than…
After feeling relatively at peace with my husband's cancer-ness, we arrive home after work yesterday to an envelope on our door mat. Now after all these years of cancer in our lives I can tell a scan letter a mile off...it's a talent, I'm sure!!!
Husband opens the letter and shock horror, it is a scan! Straight away I am thinking at million mph in my head, thinking of the date of the scan, then thinking of…
Many people love to plan ahead and make those three, five, ten year plans, they know where they want to be and by when but cancer can put a HUGE stop to that.
I count myself lucky, when my now husband was first diagnosed I was 20 years old, I'd only just really discovered how to work my washing machine and was enjoying the first bit of freedom from the family home so I hadn't got round to making huge future plans that…
What always makes me more confused (and sometimes angry!) is people's opinions, whether it be from a professional or a random person four doors down from your house. Everyone has an opinion on my husband's cancer!
Some opinions are very welcomed, others take with a pinch of salt and smile, and then there are some who should really mind their own business!
My husband has been on/off cancer treatment for his brain…
