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  • Back from MIA

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    HELLO ALL FROM SCOTLAND!!! Small update and a slight rant....

    Well I haven't posted for a while. But it’s not because anything tragic has happened! So I will give you a quick update!

    I have relocated finally to the Borders in Scotland. It’s beautiful up here and I am ridiculously happy with the GF. The training for my new job is super intense, but do far I have passed all my exams with 100% pass rate…

  • Where do we get them from....

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

     

    Right, time for THE update. Hospital report on Dad. Palliative Care has been set. They feel he will deteriorate within 6 weeks. We've been told there are a lot of tumours in the brain and that the change will be swift. SO IN LIGHT OF THAT, I thought I would share with you the Cat Lady story for some much needed light relief. (Apologies for the swearing)
    Right. So most people have heard about Dad through the…
  • Daughters without borders.....

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Dad has the oncologist today to discuss Radiotherapy. Problem is I think it is for Palliative care, and he is of the understanding that it could extend his life. He's said he is no gonna take it, unless it gives him till Christmas.... 
    <headesk>
    I've not said anything to Mum OR to Dad because I think this is one for the Oncologist to deliver. I'm usually the walking medical/legal/counselling/advisory…

  • Hey up folks.... It appears normal service has resumed.

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Sleep, Sleep, merciful sleep, is keeping me company these nights it appears! Hurrah! *huggles sleep closer to her so it NEVER LEAVES again*
    You know I believe I may have turned a corner! I think the recent storm has passed leaving me feeling much more in control of my own emotions/brain/body/movements/marbles again! I am not one for dramas. I had enough of that attending an all girls secondary school. *shudders…

  • What's the story, Morning Glory. The scales fall from my eyes....

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    I slept! I actually slept. The road to this blissful unconsciousness last night was possibly the longest, bumpiest, volatile one I've ever taken for a good nights sleep. But it was sleep.

    It started of innocuous enough. (Doesn't it always) with arriving home after yesterdays duel with crying. (to cry or not to cry was the question) I had asked soon-to-be-ex-hub if he could possibly give me a hand this week…