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We sat an watched him slip away - He just gave up the fight and sighed. I had been listening to "How could an angel break my heart by Toni Braxton. This is a beautiful song that my sister wanted me to listen too. A few hours later he broke our hearts. My pain is too much to bear, but his has gone and on Thursday morning 9/7/09 he finally earned his own angel wings.

Well a hospital bed arrived on Friday. Which sort of confirmed everything that we had been told. There was a quietness about the house, as we all came to realise this will be where he falls asleep and gets his angel wings. My brother is too sick to have his Chemo so he was sent home to enjoy what time he had left. I think if he wasnt in so much pain and wasnt so scared I might be able to cope better, but its…

Today my brother has his stent fitted to try and enable him to eat. He is very thin and has lost so much weight. All he is wishing for is to eat beans on toast, not champagne and strawberries, not the finest fillet steak or the sweetest pudding, just plain old beans on toast. His prognosis is very poor and he has been given weeks - maybe 2 months with his burst of chemo. I am praying that just one thing goes well…

I dont quite know what I thought I was doing when I wandered onto this site. I was scouring the internet trying to find answers, trying to find something that would tell me that what I thought was wrong. I thought i would be able to get to sleep at night without crying myself to sleep if I could just find something that would tell me "the answers". What I have found is somewhere that people stop and listen and…

My very close relative has cancer of the gullet with secondaries on his liver, in his stomache, and in his chest. He has only just been diagnosed and we are all reeling from shock and are totally traumatised. He is only young and has small children. He is very frightened and so am I. Does anyone have any experience of this cancer. What should we expect? How can we help him? Can he survive this? How do I stop…