The month started badly as mum came home and within 2 days was very sick again. She underwent emergency surgery to save her life and it was then the cancer was discovered and the operation turned into a bypass so that she might get some quality of life and live for a while. We were told that it was advanced and that chemotherapy would not benefit here as there was only between three and six months expectancy for her. We then started a weekly round trip off over 100 Miles to see her every week-end and monitor progress which seemed to be good as she was alert and able to hold good conversation and according to the nurses was always smiling and making friends with the other patients. We stated to talk about the summertime and how we could take her out for just short trips etc. During January we got a devastating blow to our morale as we found out Lily-Claude a cousin of my wife had been diagnose din Mauritius of having the same type of cancer and a similar expectancy scale. This meant that on or around our so called holiday either my mother or cousin was going to die. I asked my mother if she wanted me to go on holiday and she smiled and said yes. Despite January being so bad we just got on with things and saw mum every Saturday.
