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Me and my dad Mike clash a lot. He’s so stubborn in his old age. He’s partially deaf in one ear and it drives me crazy having to repeat myself all the time! He doesn’t have much patience, but then neither do I. He’d never admit this, but I think we are very alike.
I want to say thank you to him for looking after me when I had cancer. He already looked after my mum at home 12 years earlier and then she died. That must have been so difficult.
I felt so guilty when I was diagnosed...
I've been awake for past 3 and a half hours with my mother who is (I'm told) in the finally stages of her illness. I realise that this could continue for weeks, months or longer and this makes me feel weary.
As my mother has been awake for so long I assume that something is wrong. She's not in distress, but can not communicate so I'm finding it hard to understand what she needs. I've tried to adjust her pillows, massage her legs and she has had more to drink in the past few hours than she...
Since my last blog I have been busy trying to wrap my head around the unwrapable. The unfathomable.
I have cried enough tears to warrant my very own hydro electric dam, I might as well save the planet into the bargain eh?
I now need to put things in place that mean I have a lasting legacy for our children and for A.
Following posting my last blog post an amazing thing has happened. I posted it in a group that I have been in on Facebook since I had the boys. A sling group. Full of ladies who carry their...
15.6.15 Start to a new week and I've been making plans. From my first blog you may remember I have been suffering from mobility problems following radiotherapy to my spine. I am just starting the second week from the treatment and still have a weak left leg so I'll be asking about this at my appointment with the oncologist today. I really think some physio sessions will help. I've been resting loads but getting outside and moving about yesterday seemed to improve my confidence and I was doing much...
I am writing this after one of the hardest days of my life.
It is breakfast time and I am eating while I feel able. The boys are wandering around my feet scoffing pain au chocolat, in their world all is well.
Yesterday I sat in a clinical white office with all the trappings of sick people and hospital in evidence and learnt the news that the Bastard had spread. It is in my bones. My pelvis to be precise. But probably also hiding away somewhere else but just not present on any scans yet. Sneaky fucker...
I was very excited to be included in the 3rd birthday celebrations of my gorgeous little grandson today.
He doesn't know about my brain tumour yet as he's too young to understand. His parents and I need to agree on the right time and words. However, he knows that I have lots of hats and sometimes wear a 'hair hat' ( my hair fell out during radio & chemotherapy treatment).
I feel that losing my hair and not being able to drive are the two hardest parts of this condition that I...
So, two weeks through my six week treatment course today.
I had a few admin hassles when I was transferred from one hospital to another, at my request, in the sense that the receiving hospital was a bit slow in putting things in place, for example physio for my mouth etc. There are still one or two little problems to iron out but my second review today was, I must say, of a nature that inspires much admiration for health care workers, especially in this field. These guys do a really difficult, demanding...
Well. I apologise for being neglectful and not updating.
I have wanted to. But you see cancer totally took over my life this week.
I left you after my return home last week following our second bout of chemo, the end of round one of shrink you Bastard, shrink.
I was prepared, I knew I was going to feel awful. I knew I would be in pain for two days solid and I would feel so nauseous it would be unbearable. Or I thought I was. You see this time, I started to feel ill before I even left the 'therapy room...
Felt good on Monday morning, one week after chemo, 2 days of no radiotherapy. Two sessions of radio later, I feel exhausted again and needed two kips during the day today. All fairly normal apparently, but for some strange reason the side-effects of radio are much less well known than those of chemo. This is not because they are less powerful - even a cursory surf on the net shows this not to be the case and they include, just like Chemo, fatigue and nausea. In my particular case I have been told...
Hi everyone I have organised a play and meet session at play zone in Portsmouth. I thought it would be nice for families and friends touched by cancer to meet whilst their children or grandchildren play :) of really like for you to come along its all free :)
