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I was so dreading today and have just hurt my Mam and I don't know what to do about it.
Just walked Rocky down to hers and she wants to go to the cemetery because today is the 34th anniversary of my Dad leaving us. The thing is I just don't feel able to handle it because of Gordy.
I feel so selfish and heartless.
I HATE MYSELF!
Well after the tears had stopped and the phone calls made....a few cross words and the upset, we talked for hours.
I flipped out a bit...lost all control... became a blubbering mess for a while which upset Dave tremendously.
Both back on track now, he now knows how his depression is affecting me also....if he is having a down day it drags me down too....been going on for months and I just filled up and overflowed. With all those tears I never shed a single bloody ounce.
Debbie (Mac nurse) has...
Just a few lines to let you know how Picko is getting on. Those of you who remember John will know that he was given 3 months to live in January this year. Well he has had a few slices of sutent which apart from nearly killing him has worked wonders - the damage to his pelvis has started self healing, the tumours in his kidney have reduced as have the spots in his liver and pancreas but the side effects of sutent got so bad they had to take him off it.
The main issue is that since he has stopped...
Well I had my first chemo session today. I didn’t sleep at all last night out of being so anxious. Well I tell you that the today has probably been the absolute worst day of my life. I can honestly say I might actually mean those words. I felt as if millions of nano-bots were invading my body the minute they released the chemo into my system. Yes this could all be in my head but I will never forget the way my body felt it seemed more than real! It felt like I was traveling through my body with the...
The main idea of this came from an assembly I gave to my pupils a couple of weeks ago. After events of the last few days, I thought I needed to say it here too (tweaked a little so it makes sense to you lot). It is not funny. Normal service will be resumed next blog.
The day after I was diagnosed with cancer, I took my class camping for a week in Devon. I said to them John Lennon’s quote ‘Life is what happens when we are busy making other plans’ and that life was happening to me then. ...
Tough topic i realis but this is the place to seek advice when our thoughts fail us
"where our love, knowlegde all that we are"
QUESTIONS
1, "what efforts does one make to empty all information one has in ones cranium, for the benefit of those we love in the hope we can still make a difference in our absence?"
2. Is it important for them and for us, does it matter? Children still having access to daddy thoughts?
3. What Ideas does one employ?
4. Is it even important...
My older blog posts seem to have vanished in the changes, oh well.
I'm now in the 'watch and wait' stage of my journey. The treatment has finished but I have the routine of scans and follow up every three months for the next however long so it's not really over yet.
It's kind of hard. I don't want to obsess over having cancer and I can see people's eye glazing over if I mention it, but it's still such a huge thing in my life. I feel like I can't make plans too far...
Wednesday is fast approaching and my husbands entry into hospital to begin his roller coaster of a ride of a stem cell transplant. It was a low week last week, lots of tears were shed and fears declared but I am happy to report that my man is now in full control of his coaster and ready to begin this next part of his ride. The infusion of the drugs to get rid of his stem cells begin Thursday morning and continue through till 27th October when his brand new donor cells are administered. There will...
Its been such a busy couple of weeks, trying ( being the operative word) to go back to work and failing miserably. I was in a few days and then have been off again for the last couple of weeks.
Whilst i was at work we held our Mac coffee morning and raised about £350 we had the local mayor with her big shiney necklace lol help us out and she even stood outside the office beckoning people in she even bought some raffle tickets. We were lucky enough to have several prizes donated by local business...
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