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I didn't write these blog posts to be all doom and gloom!
The happy ending to the story is that mum is getting better and we are all moving on with our lives with bigger and better things.
It was the hardest part of mine and my families life and although it was tough, I believe that it has made us stronger people. If you feel like it is getting to much to people, let it out to people who understand- I would highly recommend Macmillan for the best advice they could have given me.
I hope hearing...
Its odd to say that I was affected by my mums illness more after than during. I think because we all had to be strong for my mum, I didn't have time to sit around and mope!
After mum had check ups that came back clear and life seemed to get back to normal I thought I would be able to move on and put the bad times behind me.
This was not the case. I started suffering from serious panic attacks and become withdrawn from my former loud and bubbly personality. Rationally I knew all the operations...
After a year of my mum recovering and check ups, the last thing I expected was for my mum to come back from a standard check up and drop another bomb shell. She was finally getting her confidence back and started back at work- sitting at home by herself all day was driving her a bit stir crazy and she was glad to not be staring at the same 4 walls.
My mum said that she sat in the car for 4 hours before she set off home, she couldn't bear to tell her two children that the disease that ruined our...
I don't think I will ever forget the day my mum sat me down and told me she had cancer. It was a Wednesday morning in 2007 and I was wearing a blue top, its strange I remember the little things.
When my mum went to the hospital in the morning we all thought there might be something wrong, although the C word never entered my head. Sitting down at the dining room table, my mum broke the news to me and my sister- she had bowel cancer. My beautiful young mum had a disease that was associated with...
Hi Everyone,
Hoping to find another similar case….My father has just been diagnosed with Mesothelioma following pathology results from a needle biopsy. He was a very strong, fit and healthy 66year old up until Dec 2011. Since then he has rapidly developed debilitating symptoms which have left him effectively bed-ridden. The hospital believe his symptoms are a result of a Paraneoplastic Syndrome caused by
Mesothelioma. He has no normal symptoms of Mesothelioma. There seem to be anomalies and...
So, my dad.! Typical Yorkshire man - very loud, very tight, knows everything!
Smoked all his life, worked all his life, has the strength of an ox and never been poorly.
Its been a strange few months - he wasnt a good dad to me or my elder brother - he was absent, uncaring, and distant to name but a few of those. Remarkably - he has been a fabulous father to my younger sister, and the most amazing grandfather to her two children. My brother and I have not had the best of relationships with him as...
Yesterday was bloody awful in our house, all my other half and I do at the moment is get stressed at one another.
For those of you who don't know me on mac, I had breast cancer back in 2004 and I finally finished my treatment last March 2011, and although I have done really well and am cancer free I have got myself into a bit of a rut with panic and agoraphobia which I am getting treatment for.
Agoraphobia has reduced my world to a very small space and going anywhere away from home is difficult...
