NHL - a journey into the unknown

I'm furious with how selfish some people are. We have a little girl next door who occasionally plays with our little one. I have explained that we need to be careful as M is going through chemo and exposure to chicken pox is not a good idea. The smaller screaming brother has had chicken pox within the last four weeks so I said again molls needed to stay away etc. every day for the last week the door has gone with the…

Round two happened on Friday just gone.  M totally fine, I, however, have some nausea, can't sleep again and am quite restless - what's all that about?  I think it's down to the fact I'm completely and utterly emotionally knackered.  I've never felt so tired mentally as I do right now.  The constant positive thoughts and cheery face, the constant reassuring other people he's going to be fine, he can be…

While M was having his second round of chemo yesterday and I was at work keeping the business going I got round to thinking about how some things have changed for the better since diagnosis. It sometimes takes a major event to rock your world and make you rethink how you've been living. We have a business which we've built up over the past eight years and until this June everything we did was about the business, every…

One of the other things I've really noticed is how very much you find out who you're friends really are when soemthing like this happens.  I've had pleasant suprises and I've had some suspicions confirmed about certain people.

One person in particular has truly amazed me and not in a good way.  After questionning our 8 year old daughter about what tablets has mummy got (sleepers - very tired at that point…

On a sunny Thursday afternoon in June our world changed, at that moment in time it dissolved.  I hadn't slept properly for weeks before that point - waiting for results is modern day torture - someone knows and you don't.

Friday morning we sat for what felt like a lifetime waiting to see the consultant, who confirmed the NHL diagnosis and then went on to treatment.  When I heard the word chemotherapy my heart broke…