Mum and Dad have moved into a Care Home and I'm feeling pretty guilty about this. I'd always promised that I'd look after them so it feels now as if I have let them down. I can't helping feeling that if I hadn't had cancer that I would have made a much better job of looking after them and this move wouldn't have had to happen. Even though I have recovered well I don't have quite the energy that I used to have, and I certainly…
When I was having my treatment I remember clearly the afternoon a teenage lad walked into the chemo ward. My initial thought was what on earth is a patient thinking of bringing a child into a place like this? To my shock the boy was shown to the chair next to me and they started preparing his cannula. I don't think I'd realised before that chilling moment that children can get cancer. Anyway during those tedious hours…
Three years today since I completed my treatment. In previously years I have been very aware of the date. This year I had forgotten. I was only reminded because I went for my hospital check up last week and the Consultant asked me what date I’d finished my treatment. I couldn’t remember so he’d had to rummage through my file. He says I am doing fine and it’s good that I’m starting to forget details.…
September 2012. I have just watched Andy Murray win the US Open. I would love a celebration but it’s not to be. It’s the middle of the night and I have to be up for work in 5 hours time. I’m also on antibiotics. D sends a message telling me he’s drinking champagne. I reply that I’m enjoying a glass of tap water but I will definitely be having strawberries and champagne next time.
July 2013…
I’m told that when you are making the slow journey down the road to recovery that you shouldn’t keep looking back. I think it helps to sometimes. We are recently back from a holiday at the same place we went to last year. So this has been a good opportunity to compare my progress. Sometime progress seems so slow that I don’t see it happening. However I can now see that I am a lot fitter that I was last…
