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Being made redundant at the end of December was a big deal. After all, I'm a careers adviser. What's that all about? I should have given myself better advice that's what.
Then that day in January where we decided enough was enough and after 24 years together the show was over. We had to put the house up for sale and get on with our lives. But wait, the girls aren't coming anywhere with me. No its my fault so that's that!
Sat watching tele on march 20th. Everyone in bed and not...
Had my first scan after 8 weeks of Vem. It went as well as can be hoped so good news... All my tumours shrank and the consultant oncologist was really pleased.
On the negative side, after 8 weeks of Vem I was in a bit of a mess with side effects and could hardly walk. I am moving to a schedule of 3 weeks on and one week off the meds for now to see how I go but have applied for a blue badge anyway as it has made travel and getting around very difficult.
Had a few warts removed, including one on...
Hi everyone so I haven't been here for a wee while. Dad had his mri and it came back that the tumor has grown only 5 mm though so not super fast. However we are noticing a lot of confusion and he had a fall the other day trying to get into his chair he said he didn't think it was a seizure he just felt faint. He is also on morphine now as paracetamol no longer works to rid the headaches. They are putting his steroids up to 4mg now. It's so sad watching him walk around with his sick bowl it's like...
So the CT scan happened yesterday after the 4th round of chemo. We're still waiting for special to send some inof through about what happens if you stop at 4 rounds as opposed to 6 and to be fair I'm not holding my breath for an answer. This of course is making it a very real possiblity that M will withdraw consent next Tuesday and tell them where they put their poison - I'm quite looking forward to the meeting as so far they think I'm the one they need to pacify - how wrong can they be!...
So, I'm 1/3 of the way through now. I'm glad to have the weekend break now. I don't have specific pain as such, but the burnt tongue feeling has increased.
I ate some toast this morning and it was a lot more tricky. Can still just about make out chocolate but most stuff doesn't really have much taste, coke and Pepsi taste awful.
My tongue looks very white but I don't have ulcers yet. I find it stay to think that I've got the other 2/3 to go and hate to think what state my mouth...
It's six weeks and five days since my husband passed away. Every day a difficult one, every day a struggle, every day hollow and empty.
It's not possible to put into words how grief feels. Even if I knew every language in every country I would still not be able to find the words to absolutely convey the misery of loosing my husband. I realise that I had spent so long thinking about him dying that I hadn't really given much thought to him being absolutely gone - forever.
It's been a...
Things seem calmer in camp ginger on the relationship front. Since I promised to try not to be so snappy and he promised to stop making 'jokes' about me being tired and useless everything seems better. Obviously talking is the key to this grown up lark.
Loki (the kitten) went back to the vets today. He's had a bit of a rubbish start to his short life, bless him. He had an eye infection and a cold, then he had a swollen tummy and the vet has him on weekly appointments because he's absolutely...
