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Thursday 8th December.
Thursday is bin day in our house. This bin day there has been rather a lot of my hair going into it.
It's been another okay day, nothing to write home about except my hair is falling out.
I went to the shops early and kept as far away from people as I could as this week my white cells are having a holiday. The lady at the post office was moaning about being fed up and not wanting to be at work, I did for one wicked moment think that I could make her feel...
Wednesday 7th December.
Today has been a good day again. I woke up at 5.20am, but had had a good five hours sleep, and an hour before bed too, no sleeping tablets again. Things are looking up.
Another lazy day at home, tidying around, writing Christmas cards and walking the dogs while delivering the neighbours cards. I have never spent so much time at home while the business is closed, it's strange, we are usually away this time of year. It's quite nice to sit and relax and experience...
Hi this is my first time using a blog and I have no idea what I'm doing but I would like to share my story so far if that's ok . I am 59 and until recently worked as a TA in a local primary school previously I worked at a nursery for 16 years and in school 7 years and before that 14 years with a bank in the city I have been married 40 years and have 2 adult children . I took early retirement in August 2016 I felt increasingly tired all the time and found my working day exhausting I worked from 7...
Tuesday 6th December
Today has been a good day, I don't know how it happened but it's been ok. If Christmas wasn't around the corner it would've been better though.
I woke up about 5.30am, I didn't use a sleeping tablet last night so that was good. My temperature was fine, I hate taking my temperature, it's like waiting to have permission to continue the day if it's within the correct range, I panic a bit every time I take it.
I knew I needed to do the decorations...
We all have been hit with an unspoken blow and I am sure like me we want to protect our loved one by doing everything for them but at times I feel like I am walking on egg shells, I am frightened to say or do anything to upset him for fear of feeling guilty, I am never shore if I should get him to carry on with life's everyday duties on his better days or encourage him out and having the fear that if you encourage him out if he picks up a cold it's my fault, What Do I Do,
Hi not used anything like this before my mum started with a bad back..for about 12 weeks the doctors just threw lots of different pills at her..try this try that..eventually they did a liver scan which showed leasions?..a week or so after she had a ct scan which showed cancer everywhere lungs liver kidneys ribs pelivs spine and in her bones..shes terminal..the ongologist told her she would.have 3 to 6 months to live of she didnt have chemo i she did then maybe a extra 4 months..she decided against...
after a long heartbreakng year I found this , my brain has found every emotion you can think off ,after her having a stroke last Christmas and my mum fighting to stay her with us she had more horrible news of bein diagnosed pancreatic cancer in feb , we was all numb , I was a little selfish cause we never was really that close till the stroke and now I have my mum she loves me she told me :)
but lifes so unfair cause I got my mum n now shes bein taken away from me , im tryin to stay strong n I look...
Last night I had a melt down, I was ok until I wrote this blog and started to write a bit about my feelings. Then I overheard my husband talking to his parents on the phone, they do FaceTime as they live a long way away, my mum in law is great on the iPad at 84 years old!
I'm two and a half weeks in and at the start of the weekend I began to feel as though I'd turned a corner. The freshly-run-over-by-a-bus feeling was markedly reduced and my husband and the kids said I looked better. Well hurrah.
But it's often two steps forward and one step back with cancer treatment. Come Sunday evening and I was back under the duvet. Today's another sofa day - a disappointment as I'd hoped to be well enough to attend a Macmillan volunteer day with the community champs...
