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I am sorry I haven't been around much lately. I have just dropped in to let you know that my beautiful brother left us on Saturday 10th March 2012 at 9.45pm. I will be back to tell you all about it but for now I will leave you with a poem I created from a vision I had a few weeks ago.
Much love and squidgy hugs,
Nin xxx
DESTINATION
Standing alone in the station,"A strange place to be", he thought
There were no arrivals on 'Train Information'. No ticket had he bought
From...
So tomorrow I try going back to work for 3 mornings a week. To say I'm dreading it is a massive understatement. My lovely husband has said "go try it, if you feel miserable or stressed, then leave - life is too short" and I love him for it. I know lots of changes have taken place since I was last behind my desk, none of them are positive for me as I will be doing all the bits I hated about my job, none of the things I did like and am going to be given bits I know I will find stressful....
It is too simplistic to think that as a carer I will have good days and down days - what I had not expected was the guilt that accompanies the feeling of being depressed. I am not the patient, I am not the one going through the gruelling chemo sessions, nor the one with cancer inside me.
I feel guilty if I lose my patience with my husband, which under normal circumstances would happen anyway, you know the sort of thing, everyday occurrences or niggles that annoy us and we kind of bicker but then...
Life is good as year on from op! Still here and feeling good.Still suffering fatigue if do too much.re plumbing of digestive system still takes time to get use to and trying to eat correctly and enough of it!!Getting there slowly.Took early retirement and loving it.Going back to my roots singing and got work in summer but not overdoing it as will choose when and how many I do as my health from now on is now the most important thing.Grateful to be still here seeing my boys grow into men and still...
My annual check up is coming up this month with my breast surgeon who lets face it saved my life!!!
I think he sees me as one of his many personal triumphs as he always calls me his star patient, I think that is because I was never one of those types to question anything, I just did as I was told and got on with it, treatment that is, now its a different story, I want to question everything!! maybe it comes from age and having a little more knowledge about cancer.
I am not worried about my check...
My father aged 81 has been diagnosed with bowel cancer, it is just on the
bend of the bowel near the rectum. Due to his other health problems all they
are considering is a stent. My father has been on oral morphine for 3 years due
to a hip op gone wrong. We have not been told what stage he is at. The nurse
reffering us to MacMillan forgot (so annoyed about that). I have been up since
4am with my dad as he is losing glutinous excreatment with no warning.
What i want to know is at what stage does...
Well Mum has been for radio therapy .as the week went by she got more tired by Wednesday she could not walk from the car to the room for the treatment . She is still fighting the fight although dog tired all the time. luckily she has not been sick and so far no hair loss . As the treatment was broken up by the weekend we went to get a wig . I think she chosen a good one looking as if she had been to have her hair done rather than a obvious change of colour and style.now its lots of rest if I can...
Well I'm pleased to say that after finishing my 5th line chemo in December, I am still feeling better, and over the last week I have stayed at my daughters, and helped out with the school runs, (something I have be unable to do for the last 2 years). I drove myself for the 2 hour journey, first to my son, and two days with them, though we didn't go out. Sunday off to my daughter to do the school runs for the week. My 2 grandaughters seemed so please to see me, Sunday lunch pizza party for...
I will try and keep this short... oh why do bother even saying that eh? I have Rolos going spare and coffee and a bottle of vodka in the cupboard that I still don't know how it got there so help yourselves. Oh and I'll send Bernard St Bernard off to look for stragglers with his emergency brandy.
So, I got up and polished shiny bum ready for GC nd Rolos up there and clean pants etc etc and off I went down the motorway to the hospital (for the unititiated, I had my check up with the consultant...
