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Its odd to say that I was affected by my mums illness more after than during. I think because we all had to be strong for my mum, I didn't have time to sit around and mope!
After mum had check ups that came back clear and life seemed to get back to normal I thought I would be able to move on and put the bad times behind me.
This was not the case. I started suffering from serious panic attacks and become withdrawn from my former loud and bubbly personality. Rationally I knew all the operations...
After a year of my mum recovering and check ups, the last thing I expected was for my mum to come back from a standard check up and drop another bomb shell. She was finally getting her confidence back and started back at work- sitting at home by herself all day was driving her a bit stir crazy and she was glad to not be staring at the same 4 walls.
My mum said that she sat in the car for 4 hours before she set off home, she couldn't bear to tell her two children that the disease that ruined our...
I don't think I will ever forget the day my mum sat me down and told me she had cancer. It was a Wednesday morning in 2007 and I was wearing a blue top, its strange I remember the little things.
When my mum went to the hospital in the morning we all thought there might be something wrong, although the C word never entered my head. Sitting down at the dining room table, my mum broke the news to me and my sister- she had bowel cancer. My beautiful young mum had a disease that was associated with...
Hi Everyone,
Hoping to find another similar case….My father has just been diagnosed with Mesothelioma following pathology results from a needle biopsy. He was a very strong, fit and healthy 66year old up until Dec 2011. Since then he has rapidly developed debilitating symptoms which have left him effectively bed-ridden. The hospital believe his symptoms are a result of a Paraneoplastic Syndrome caused by
Mesothelioma. He has no normal symptoms of Mesothelioma. There seem to be anomalies and...
So, my dad.! Typical Yorkshire man - very loud, very tight, knows everything!
Smoked all his life, worked all his life, has the strength of an ox and never been poorly.
Its been a strange few months - he wasnt a good dad to me or my elder brother - he was absent, uncaring, and distant to name but a few of those. Remarkably - he has been a fabulous father to my younger sister, and the most amazing grandfather to her two children. My brother and I have not had the best of relationships with him as...
Yesterday was bloody awful in our house, all my other half and I do at the moment is get stressed at one another.
For those of you who don't know me on mac, I had breast cancer back in 2004 and I finally finished my treatment last March 2011, and although I have done really well and am cancer free I have got myself into a bit of a rut with panic and agoraphobia which I am getting treatment for.
Agoraphobia has reduced my world to a very small space and going anywhere away from home is difficult...
