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Having a tough day. Mother in law still not home from hospital still very poorly. She wont let us bring the children in to see her so I've had to stay home with them so hubby can go visiting. Not seen her in over a week now but hubby who generally tends to understate things is starting to say he's worried, which means he's very very worried.
We had to go back to her house to sort out a few last items ready for the sale of the house no one to take the boys while we went so we took them...
ai forgot to say that also mum has had really really sore stiff arms and finds it hard to use them or lift anything heavy, is this a common side affect of abvd? any ideas? x x
night everyone x
i havent been on in a wee while have been really busy...
mum finished her chemo two weeks ago and had a scan on friday there, we are awaiting the results. her last scan after four chemo sessions showed her tumour in her chest had shurnk by almost half. shes had twelve now, i am hoping and praying for her sake that it is all away now , i really really want this to be over for her, its been a long hard slog and the chemo has really took it out of her although she has been lucky in some ways, for example...
Well it was too good to be true, Today I went out for a couple of hours before going visiting so was about 2 hours later than I would normally go on a Sunday. When I arrived I was asked to wait in the day room as Bert was unwell, It seems he had diarrhoea and vomitting, confusion again along with a high temp unfortunately he woke up vomitting so never made it to the toilet,
He could not remember anything again, thought we had been out on the bus with the nurse, Did not know why he had to go for...
Home for the next 4 weeks is a condo downtown Rochester, USA. We left St Mary's Hospital after lunch (Andrew ate poached egg and portabello mushroom on toast). It's a cold day (39 degrees at 1pm) but the sun is shining and it feels so good to be going 'home'. The doctors, nurses and staff at St Mary's have been terrific - we are completely overwelmed with the good care and kindness shown by all. The staff on the 7th floor packed us off with sandwiches for tea and bottles of various flavours of LifeWater...
I am so annoyed I have been trying to get onto chat for the last 2 days and it tells me that the site was only temporary and that it has expired. Is anyone else having this problem and if so do you know how to sort it. I have tried e-mailing admin but have had no response at all from them.
I thought I'd write a little,
it might just help
to get my mummy (and me) through this
it might just help.
Why do I have this knott in my stomach?
It never goes away
worried of what might happen,
today, tomorrow, any day...
pretending we are ok,
We're fine & we're getting through
But when we have those moments alone
the pretense gets over-thrown
We sit and think as the knott gets bigger
will this feeling last forever.
my dad has mesothelioma and is to see about getting mistletoe therapy tomorrow. just thought i would ask if anyone who has had this treatment has had any improvements or if they have seen any changes??
thanks, Izzy xx
I agree with you all my wife passed away 8 weeks ago, and lots of things that remind me of her keep coming back our favourite singers like Jim Reeves Nat Kingcole her perfume Esther Lourdar ( youth dew ) all so Stricktly Come Dancing, C.S.I I can not bring myself to watch these yet i dont watch televison because my wife and i did together, all i do is crosswords all so i busy my self around the house things my wife used to do, I miss her so very much as we went and done every thing together. Midgie...
Cancer, the dirty little pig that it is, makes old problems IMMENSE. The old problems are even more difficult to tolerate. And what is worse, they couldn't be fixed before and NOW they sure as heck can't be fixed. It's any problem from the days before cancer. I am getting to the point like Indie Chick...staying away from ALL...not because I am reverse 'nesting' or from depression or preparing for my own death, but because I ask myself, "How much more of the old stuff can I endure?"...
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