Hi again Louise
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Hi again Susan
Thanks for your post. I feel a bit guilty about not getting my back sorted, I'm supposed to be sorting an osteopath out, but I really don’t want to go, it usually sorts itself out eventually. The trouble is the doctor wont examine me for the other problem until I've sorted my back out, so I don’t know what to do. I've had these other strange symptoms for a few years so I suppose its nothing urgent.
Yes you're right about my brother, I don’t think hes accepted any of it and I dare say he would never talk to his wife because she's of the opinion ‘when you're dead, you're dead’, (as she so nicely put it to me the day after mums funeral!), so she's never supported him in any way. She never even visited my Dad when he was dieing in hospital, so she has no feelings at all. They probably deserve each other.
It must have been a tough one to go to the match, the first one without your Mum and Dad, but what a caring, sensitive and wise young man Jonathan is. And what a great thing to happen, smelling your dads aftershave. As I keep saying, this is their way of showing us they're with us. Your Mum and Dad were definitely there with you Susan. I know you don’t want to read much into it, but it’s a sign.
I did smile when you mentioned about my Mum trying to keep me busy, she more than likely IS smiling at me not knowing what everything is. I even asked our neighbour yesterday what something was in the front garden, and he said ‘oh goodness knows, your Mum just used to ‘dob’ things in and up they came, she was always out here’. They still miss her too. Perhaps that’s where I'm going wrong, perhaps I'm not a natural ‘dobber’??!! I was going out the back garden again this afternoon, but the sun keeps going in. I can't do much here inside because good old Anglian Water have turned the water off from 9am to 5pm, so can't wash up or anything, (what a god send).
Yes, big day tomorrow. I was going to do dinner at home, but now we’re going out for a meal, just a couple of hours. We haven’t been out since just before valentines day, when I burst into tears and then we left and came home. I will be ok tomorrow though. Yesterday I found the card that Mum bought us last year, and I will put it up again. I didn’t know the flower was geranium, that’s very apt because yesterday I got mums out the hut and gave them a trim and dead headed them. They're all ready to be put somewhere. She bought them last year and watched me from her bed when I put them in her tubs, but told me to take them out for the winter and put them in again this year. She must have known then that she wouldn’t be here to put them in again. But I'm sure she will be watching AND smiling as you say.
Hi again Sharon
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