Mel's Journey

  • Its all happening too quickly

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    I need time to stop. Or at least slow down just a little, i feel that my time with my mum is passing me by and i panic with how little time we have left now.

    Things are definatly getting worse every week, if not every day. My mum lost use of her legs a few weeks ago and is now practically bed-bound, we have been sent a hospital bed, wheelchair and commode etc for her but it doesnt seem enough and my dad is really struggling…

  • A thank you

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    I would just like to take a moment to thank everyone for their kind words and support/advice whilst I have been on this site. It is just so unfair that we all have this one horrible thing in common.

    I just hope that I can be of some help and support to others and be as helpful to them as evryone has been to me xx

  • A better day

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Today is a better day after a scaring weekend. Mum took a bit of a fall in the shower and has already been suffering with quite acute pains in her sides and arm due to one of tumours and some nerve damange from past chemo so the fall really took it out of her and took a few hours to be able to move her the pain was so bad so it was a scary and nerve wracking time and ill never get used to seeing my mum in such pain and…

  • Scared and lost

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Today i'm feeling a bit stronger about the shock news the family recieved on monday - that my mum has only weeks left. I have a great support network with close friends and family but i feel numb all the time. I am less tearful today but I lack any motivation to do anything and I keep drifting off and staring into space and can take me a while to 'snap out of it'

    My mum is very pratical and had already started…