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After 2 weeks off of interferon self-injections, I'm starting back up later tonight. Definitely not looking forward to it! I still haven't braved doing it myself so a nurse comes around 8:00 and then I'll feel crappy from about 9 until tomorrow afternoon. And my doctor told me the side effects will probably be bad tonight since my body will need to get used to the drug again. Chills, fever, nausea, back pain, panic attacks, restlessness, exhaustion and insomnia (how I can be exhausted...
I'm so glad to be alive, and its 2013!
2012 was a year of such extremes highs and lows. I loved the Olympics and paras, saw my youngest turn 21. hated the weather, semi liked my holidays this year, and fell to an all time low when my dear mum died in September, did a lot of comfort eating and am now 2 stone overweight. Time to pick myself up, dust myself off and make the most of the wonderful life that God has given me. No more sitting around and moping or feeling sorry for myself. Its 2013...
Well in some ways the year seems to have flown past, in others not so much. I miss having David around to back me up with the children and as a consequence they push me to my limits and sometimes beyond.
Last New Years eve I tripped while cleaning the stairs after one of my son's was sick, and tore the legiment in my left thumb, I had to have an operation - fortunatly day surgery. But this meant I was reliant on my parents for support with the kids for 48 hours as I didn't have a partner to help...
Dad went for his Endoscope thing up his backside.
Had an appointment with a consultant, who said about having an operation to remove.
We had a reasonable Christmas and New Year, making the most to be together.
Yesterday Dad got a call from the hospital to come up to A&E, as they wanted to see him. He thought it a bit strange, but tropsed up to the hospital all the same with my mum in tow. However when they got there no-one seemed to be expecting them, one nurse said to my dad not to worry it...
A bit of good news today...dads cancer has not spread anywhere else....at least now it makes things a bit easier!! he went out to celebrate in style...treating himself to a fry up!!
ironic given my blog name... but someone sent this to me and I like it enough to share.... for all of us for whom positivity has gone feral.
Let's Get This Straight
It's not "being positive"
that gets you through. No,
it's something grittier - sharp, capable of hurt:
it would have you grabbing the very last crumb
from under your best friend's nose,
it's savage, stubborn, it's made of steel -
if you were in business the whole world
would hate your guts...
So I get a phone call on new years eve from my mum to say dad has got mouth cancer :( safe to say I am cut up to bits about it, I am in Devon he is in Scotland and I want to go back there to be by his side but he says there is nothing I can do!! I feel so guilty and helpless!!! I haven't been the perfect daughter and have often been nasty to him in the past and know all I feel is regret!! dad gets his results tomorrow on whether or not the cancer has spread...I hope to god not!!! going to be a very...
Dear All,
I am so sorry to tell you all that Hilary died this morning.
This is what Judy wrote...
I regret to have to announce that Hilary died in her sleep this morning around 7 am. She died in the knowledge that she was much loved and still thinking more about her friends and family than herself. She was the best friend a girl could have, and I can’t begin to tell you how much I will miss her.
I shall miss her so very much. I shall direct Judy to this blog if any of you want to leave...
