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Hi, good to meet you all!
As this is entry number 1 of (hopefully) many more to come, I thought I would give you a brief history of how I ended up here and who the key players are in this story!
Firstly, ME - I am a 27 year old solicitor, youngest of 3 children to my wonderful mum and dad. The other 2 children come in later! In the process of buying a house, got engaged on 7th December 2012 (to the lovely Dan - more on him later) and getting married on 14th June 2014. All sounds good so far?! Too...
Phewf, what a difficult last few days it's been.
Before saying anything else I want to thank all the people (in particularly Margaret) who have left lovely messages for me to read when I log back on. Just knowing people are out there, and there are people that care is enough to keep me going day after day. I can't say it enough, but one more time wont do any harm; thank you.
So, my last blog post left with my Grandma going into hospital, my impending smear test and our flat being sold....
My father died in March 2013 3 weeks after being diagnosed with cancer, I am an only child although now an adult. I thought I was coping with my father's death, I put all my strength into supporting my mother - they would have been married 63 years 2 days after his death. Then 12 weeks later on Father's Day my mother was diagnosed with the same cancer, no treatment. I feel like my world has ended and although I have a supportive family of my own nothing can fill the void I feel. It is like...
the above title pretty much tells u all there is to know.
on april 22nd life was relatively simple and unworried.
april 23rd i went for my 1st mammogram at the grand old age of 47. random selection programme being introduced in my area to bring down the age of mammograms from 50 to 47. so i was selected purely by chance.
i was recalled to hospital 10/14 days later as scan had shown something that they were worried about.
2nd scan and biopsy were done 2 weeks after 1st mammogram
and a week after...
So after getting back from visiting my Grandma last night I was informed by my boyfriend the minute I walked through the door that the flat we live in is now being sold. We have no money, and somehow need cash for a new deposit and first months rent for wherever we end up living so it's time for Mr Credit Card I'm afraid. We have no choice. I don't know where to live. I'm scared.
My Grandma is having her pacemaker fitted today and I'm having my first ever smear test. Today is shit...
...For God's sake. My Grandma is in hospital again.
She's had an angina attack in the night so my Grandad took her to the Drs the next day and when she was having some tests done, she had another one. They phoned an ambulance straight away and they took her to hospital, where she is now. We think she might have to have a pacemaker fitted, which I guess is a pretty routine procedure and Grandma is a strong lady, I think she can get through the operation. As bad as this potentially sounds, it...
Feeling alot better today. Work is better, the sun is shining and it's nearly the weekend!
I'm going to ring or text my mum at some point to let her know about this site. It could provide her with alot of support. There is so much stuff on here I had no idea, why didn't I look sooner?!
I'm in a productive mood today. Today I want to be active and postitive and I'm abitious. I want to do more for my mum - I can't be there directly because I moved out around 4 years ago so my sister is...
I have known since March that my Dad was going to die.
1st of all they gave us anything up to 18months. Then it was 6 months.
Monday night it was hours. Now it's days.
Monday night he was taken to hospital after having a fall, then a fit. (Which he has never had before)
We were taken into the family room and told to prepare for the end. Myself, my mum, brother and sister went to say our goodbyes. It was emotional, but we were glad that it would be over for him before he had to go through...
