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Mum had a bad night last night. Woke up with pain around her abdomen. She thinks it's from coughing.
Mum is totally bed bound and I'm caring for her at home. Last week I had to be signed off work by my GP so I could look after her.
Mums breathing a a bit crackley today and eaten next to nothing.
She's also become really skinny over the last 3 weeks due to her poor appetite.
Not sure what's coming next! At least she's still got all her marbles!
...Well, Thursday came round and I wasn't really nervous just wanted it over. Walked down to OT, got on bed then next minute waking up, to the nurses talking about who they fancied, so I butted Gerrard Butler, it was actually 5 hours later!
then the next thing I asked was it just the two nodes, to be told no all of them, so I said chemo then.
had to wait two hours for bed, ended up in a private room! How jammy! Didn't really hurt, first thing phone dad let him know I'm ok.
looked...
Every day is bad but Sunday is the worst. This was our special day, and being alone hits doubly hard. In the early days we would play tennis in the morning and then go to a pub with friends, once we retired it became a long dog walk in the morning, leisurely breakfast with the papers, gin and tonic with chilli puffs and beef jerky and a special dinner that we had chosen together. Then a quiet evening finishing the bottle of red and watching something together. Nothing exciting, just doing what we...
December 23rd, not even 4 months ago, though at times it feels like 4 years or 4 days depending on the fluctuation of mood.
Decisions, decisions.... December 23rd.... Informed will be having a Mastectomy after treatments..
Re-construction or not ?
Re-construct ! Re-construct ! Re-construct.. !!!!
No need to think, great so you chop it off, then build it back again..
Simple, no quandaries, no angst deciding...
DD one side and Zilch tother... No Thank You..
But, of course, simplicity can have transient...
I'm at a loss after my husband of 40 yrs lost his fight to blood cancer MDS .....he had a bone marrow transplant last June plus top up cells in December .We thought he had turned a corner but caught my cold in January this year which turned into pneumonia and sepsis shock it was so quick .
After him going through everything it seems so unfair it was the day before our 40th anniversary they turned the ventilator off .
Now 11 weeks on I'm just going over everything can not sleep and can not stop...
Hi Ladies, sorry if this appears twice but not sure if I have posted correctly. I had DCIS breast cancer in 2014, follow up mammogram year later which was relatively uneventful but have just had my 2nd year check up and the mammogram on my operated breast was so painful I am worried that this is because the cancer has returned. The "healthy" breast was fine but my other was excrutiatingly painful and I was at a point nearly telling her to stop it was that bad. It has definitely put me off mammograms...
i am not sure what to do.. my dad passed away on the 6th of feb to cancer to the gullet and i was there with the rest of the family soon as he passed it hit all my family bad part from me yes i feel so sad in side but when i feel the tears i stop myself and now i feel so angry in side as i cant remember his voice i sit for hrs thinking of times we have talked and i cant here his voice.. i feel this anger is coming out on others and i dont want that as i know we all feel sad i just dont know...
Today it is one month since Pete died. It has been the longest and foulest month of my life. I exist, no more. I get up, walk the dogs, try to eat, shower, drink too much, and go back to bed to lie awake most of the night. There is nothing more than that, no happiness, no enjoyment, no interest in anything. The only feelings are bad ones, sadness and misery. The reality of loss keeps hitting me. Over and over again, and each time like the first.
I am trying. I have met one other widow for...
I'm still in a lot of pain. Self medicating with Ibuprofen and paracetemol. Is there anything else that might do a better job? The main problem is sleeping. Once I wake I find it really difficult to get back to sleep.
So far I've only told very few people about my cancer. I travelled to Yorkshire yesterday to tell my Mum and brother. Mum's 87 and we lost my Father to bowel cancer 7 years ago. I couldn't tell her in the end. I don't know why. I convinced myself that she wouldn't understand and...
It's been a while...
What have we been up to? Mostly university stuff. Oh.... and not having any treatment...
I'd like to say that cancer has vacated our lives since the no evidence of disease, but it hasn't. It is still with us everyday. Perhaps not every min of every hour but hourly at least. The Sword of Damacles feeling if you will?
We had been getting back into some form of routine, our new normal, and I was feeling quite well.
I have been able to be the old me for a while, collect...
