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Monday 30th January.
I don't like 'blood test Monday'.
I hate waiting for the district Nurse, I always think she will forget to call. She owns the local pub and is there in the evenings, I don't know how she does it! Anyway today she was early so I had less worry time and went for my right good arm, the blood was flowing today so all was good, I've been drinking tons of water to try to help. Just had to send hubby out of the room as he's unpredictable with blood, sometimes...
Hello everyone!
It feels right to start with an introduction and why I'm here.
My name is Miss Blue. I'm a 31 (nearly 32!) year old secondary school teacher.
Last April, my Stepmum was diagnosed with stomach cancer. She fought through the treatment which eventually became ineffective, but sadly lost her fight on 18th January this year, aged 52.
My 88 year old maternal grandmother (aka Nan), who survived breast cancer whe she was young, has been in and out of hospital...
This weekend I went away to celebrate one of my childhood best friends birthdays. It was so good to catch up with everyone and so good to be able to celebrate a milestone birthday with her.
Her mum died very suddenly a few years back. She had a massive aneurism, went straight into a coma and didn't wake up. I was sat looking at my best friend and thinking what an absolutely amazing person she is. She didn't get to say goodbye to her mum but she dealt with everything amazingly. I feel lucky that...
Sunday 29 January 2017.
Time to update this blog.
I've been away at our younger daughters since last Sunday, it was a lovely few days, my husband nearly finished her kitchen and I did a lot of cooking and shopping and we all relaxed in the evenings together with good food and a film. It was so nice.
Since my last chemo session I've hardly been at home, it's gone by in a flash and it's done me the world of good. I've felt quite well and been really busy, there were times I've...
New to this, so hopefully it works out and makes some sense... :/
I'm trying to deal with the loss my mum in August, so thought maybe making it into a story might help.
This is a story of a lady asked to cope with 2 cancers in one lifetime, but couldn't (wouldn't?). In the end it became too much.
It all started when I was maybe a year/ 18 months. She woke up on the floor of the kitchen and was violently sick. When she called the doctor, he said it sounded like a seizure and go to the...
So today's not been as easy as yesterday. Everyone's at each other's throats and everyone needs a break from each other. The only problem is it feels like that's not possible.
Vlog update time! Still getting my head around a lot of the ins and outs of treatment and the type of cancer I have. Sadly one of the things I know I have to do is to take clippers to the face fuzz!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw5yhnzJa-Q
25th November 2016. Hospital appointment for results of biopsy. At this point I was still going to work amongst the appointments and the worrying. I'd told my kids there was something wrong and that these appointments were to find out what it was.
I waited around thirty or forty minutes in the waiting room with my partner trying to control the panic inside, because although I KNEW there was something not good, I didn't really want to hear it. I had also hoped that I'd read the situation...
So things have settled down a bit, mum seems to be stabilising a bit and day to day life feels like it is becoming a new kind of normal. She helped make dinner tonight for the first time in a long time and it was a huge momentous moment which we were able to share together .
This is positive however......I seem to have become an insomniac! Because things have settled down a bit and I'm not rushing around quite so much Im not as exhausted as I was and now have too much time to think, especially...
