I'm just angry, so so so SO angry at cancer, angry at the world!
3 years ago my mum was diagnosed with colorectal cancer, two tumours the size of tennis balls found.. 6 weeks of intensive chemo and radiotherapy and then she had surgery in the September. When they re-joined the bowel, it had come apart so 5 weeks later, rushed in for another emergency surgery as her body was flooded with sepsis.
24 hours we were told.. she had 24 hours to live.
She fought it, like an absolute queen. From leaving hospital less than 7 stone, a couple of years later she mastered it. She couldn't even walk up the stairs when we brought her home and now you wouldn't even know she had been through it .. apart from pooping into her stoma bag!
But of course, the world S*!#s on the good people doesn't it?
Almost 3 years to the day that she was diagnosed with bowel cancer.. along came breast cancer!!
As if she hadn't been through enough.
And i'm just angry.
Angry that it's happening again, angry that we have to go through it again as a family, angry that it's happened to my mum again.
I wouldn't wish it upon anyone but WHY my mum?
I just want to scream and shout to the world to ask WHY, were good people and it just makes me angry!
I just needed this rant, i've never posted in here before and i'm not expecting people to reply or have the answers..
But (if I hadn't mentioned enough already) I'm just angry about the whole situation and if anyone else feels this way, please know that you're not alone.
Thanks for reading
X
I understand stand how you feel, 2019 my mum was told she had endometrial cancer and needed a hysterectomy and while she was waiting for that she had her letter come through for a mammogram and it came back that she had breast cancer as well. We were lucky that both were caught early and she had surgery for both and radiotherapy for the breast cancer and now she’s ok fingers crossed. Fast forward to 2021 my grandad (mum’s dad) died in July of pancreatic cancer and then in September I was diagnosed with womb cancer at 33. I hope your mum will be ok. X
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