Pennyx2's blog

As I've said elsewhere, I was told May 2007 that I had just 3-4 months to live. If I was very strong, I might survive six months. We told my partner's sister, but, at her request, did not tell their mother. Shortly afterwards, just as we were about to go away for the weekend with his sister, she got very shirty with me and finally said we couldn't go, and it came out that their mother had some health problems - in fact…

I thought this would be best place to recommend book lent to me by v good friend when I was diagnosed terminal. "The Natural Death Handbook" contains an enormous amount of clear and calming info. I would recommend it to anyone wanting to nurse someone at home/ die at home, to anyone wanting something other than the American megacorps funeral at the concrete crematorium, to anyone wanting financial info.... so much…

So, I've survived six months longer than the longest estimate, and today I rang the Hospice and found I am entitled to another session of aromatherapy. The reason they'd not rung back before is that the lady who did me last time has been away (I'd suspected it had been because they'd not expected me to survive). Yesterday I went to a party with a lot of the peole I used to work with. Everyone says how well I'm looking…