Dad is a proud man, he looked after my Step Mum who has MS for years at home before she became so dependant and in need of Nursing Care that she now lives in a Nursing Home in the Midlands. Although we were all releaved that she was getting the right care, I could also feel the sense of loss that Dad felt.
This sense of loss led Dad to look for a lady friend to fill the gap in his life and he was soon off and about; sometimes I did not know if he was actually in the Country. I was angry that he had betrayed my Step Mum and really didn't want to see him.
So the news that he had Cancer in the Lymph Glands on one side of his neck was even more difficult to take, when we had already failed to communicate and he was no longer living solely in the home he had shared with my Step Mother.
Using Facebook both he and his lady friend have kept us all updated with Photos pre and post Op and through his Chemo and Radiotherapy to the point yesterday that I scrolled down and found that he had now completed the Radiotherapy and his PEG tube will be removed.
Dad was quick to tell everyone that his Cancer was not due to Smoking.......Oh Daddy dear its so strange to use Facebook to tell everyone it was HPV after all that may be telling too many people about a virus that you may not have got - if you had been more faithful? Will I run out of time.........before I make my peace with you?........I hope not!
