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Bert had quite a bad fall last night. He lost his balance abd fell into the bath and got himself wedged in. I had to get a neighbour in to help me get him out. Now he is scared to go into the toilet in case it happens again.
His mania has slowed down quite a bit so I am hoping he will return back to his usual self shortly. He is back to sleeping most of the day but I think we prefer that to the hyper way he was at the weekend.
The Leukaemia that they think is in his brain is making him so different...
Today my husband keeps on about how he's got to make the most of the time he has left.
Today I went to the Maggie's centre in Charring Cross Hospital. As a previous architect student I had been intrigued about the place since it won the stirling prize last year - strange to think I was there for this reason. It was a really beautiful space; flexible and open plan, full off adaptable spaces.
I went prepared with a geeky list of questions as i thought i might become tongue tied. This Lady called Bernie talked to me for a while and I have to admit I welled up a little bit at the...
MRI=0, Me=1
Round two went to me. Did my mri with hardly any fuss at all.
Yeah!
Think I deserve a nice big glass of red wine to celebrate
This morning my parents visited an oncologist who suggested a plan of how to proceed. On friday she will have a minor operation to place a stent that will stop her from becoming jaundice. After resting for a week she will begin a course of chemotherapy which will consist of 3 mondays of treatment and then a week off, repeated for three months.
This chemo wont be too aggressive so she shouldn't lose any hair or anything like that. From what I have read it seems that everyone reacts differently to...
how can it? .. when i think about the fact that i will never see my mum again? .. im only 20 .. this isnt right! i need her now more than ever! i miss her at home! i missed txtng her the other day to let her know i passed my exams! everyone else got to tell their mums! i have no one now!
i just want her back so much!
Well it has been exactly one week since I was diagnosed.
What a week is all can say. Been pretty traumatic, so many emotions in such a short time period. I am just totally exhausted physically and mentally. In saying that though today Im starting to feel as if I might, and I say might, just be able to cope with this. Think my mini meltdown yesterday actually has really helped and I can start to come to terms with this and focus on fighting. At least for today anyway.
Just got to conquer that...
On friday the 19th I was told that my mums pancreatic cancer had spread to her lungs and that from now on any care that she received would be palliative.
For a couple of hours I did not react but merely asked questions, " Can they not do chemo?"/ "Cant they cut them out" It took me a great length of time to realise that this was a death sentence for my mother.
I immediately began research online and was greeted with horrid statistics for pancreatic cancer that was operable...
