I know that started this brilliant idea so I wanted to carry it on for her and as the forum has become a little gloomy recently as we face loosing them both soon.
So
1. daloni and dizzie outlasted their prognosis by years and I am sure proved that you can have quality of life despite doctors best guesses and we all benefited from knowing them on here.
2. I just got back from a fabulous holiday in Galicia, northern Spain. I walked more than I have for months (chemo pushed me into a wheelchair) the food and wine was fab and I met old friends and laughed a lot.
3. Macmillan have admitted that their upgrade has been a bit sh*t and are working on improving it. Hurrah for Macmillan who have admitted it didn't go well. How many organisations actually come out and say that.
I don't like to think that newbies think that we are a miserable lot, what struck me on here when I came was how much joy, laughter and living went on despite cancer.
Nicky
Hope the consultant gives you good feed back tomorrow Ruth.
My 3 good things
1 Rented a caravan for a long weekend with hubby, daughter & one of our grandsons on the south coast. Very special!
2 Hospital review yesterday all good- Round 14 of immunotherapy today done & dusted.
3 Seeing my son and other grandson tomorrow and still have just over 6 weeks holiday left to enjoy!
I agree. I love a pub lunch especially now when we were deprived for so long xxx
Ruth
I love any pub meal - so my 3 good things:
due to have one tomorrow
Daughter has just told me she arrived safely in Surrey after driving down. I was anxious as it is a long way from Sheffield and M1 and M25 are not nice roads. She is ony 36 - do we ever stop worrying about our children? Will spend sunday worrying about her return journey.
On my visit my daughter last weekend in Sheffield we went for a walk in in Eccleshall woods, and had nice lunch at place in Dore. However after being away from the car for 3.5 hours we returned to find that I had left her passenger door wide open!! No one had stolen car, thank god. Did wonder if people assumed someone was lying in wait to pounce on anyone who tried. Anyway, maybe she needs to worry about me - I was mortified. Blaming it on the heat.
I used to live in Ecclesall and walked in the woods on a regular basis. I'm so glad they're still standing, as I heard the idiots on the council gave a contract to a company which allowed them to cut down hundreds of trees round the city. We saw protests about it on the news. So glad we'd moved by then as we would have been arrested.
yes, still there, and very lovely ( and cool) too. I think the city council let the contractor cut down street trees in the main and there were plenty of protests, and rightly so. Bureacracy has no soul sometimes.
As if someone would nick any car you had an interest in. They would quickly join us in a short life expectancy. You know its true you Guardian reading firebrand.
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