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Tag: Dealing with Cancer in the Family
Dealing with a family members cancer diagnosis. An honest account of how her husbands cancer diagnosis and treatment effects one woman and her family. How to maintain normality and remain positive in adversity.
When our friends first approached me to ask what I thought about them doing something to raise money for us it made me cringe a little. I didn’t want them to think of us in a sympathetic way, didn’t want to be thought of as a family that weren’t able to cope, that needed charity. […]
I’m waiting. I wait in traffic to and from the hospital I wait in waiting rooms with uncomfortable chairs. I wait with him for to have blood taken I wait with him for clinic, to see a doctor, or the nurse. I wait for news I wait with him for a bed We wait for […]
I’m becoming a little obsessed with checking everyone’s temperature Well, not everyone, I’m not walking down the street armed with a thermometer checking how hot or cold people are. I check the kids at the first sign of them being under the weather and I get Mr C to check his temperature. Everyday. There’s a […]
I wonder where your sons are you are talking of so fondly. What happened or what could be so important that they’ve been unable to be here. Or grandchildren? With 3 sons there’s surely grandchildren. I understand that families don’t always get on. They become estranged. But surely there’s someone. Someone with a few hours […]
Chemo weeks are tough. Stating the obvious! They’re bloody horrific for Chris, and I don’t ever, ever dream of comparing how tough they are for me to what he goes through. They are nowhere near the same level. For me they’re mentally as well as physically tiring. I spend the week very tense, although I […]