Blogs - Page 125

This is just a little story or statement i guess you could say of my experience with having 'c'....the word doesnt scare me its the whole reminding me all the time bit.hehe

I want to see if cancer connections can help my kids adjust to me living with cancer. We have moved from out west to have access to better services and have left a happy life and friends behind to start again which is really hard on them all.

We have our first holiday, in 2 days time, since hubbys GBM diagnosis 11 months ago. I haven't let myself get excited as I have been too concerned that we may not make it. So here I am with two days to go unpacked and feeling rather anxious. I won't relax till I'm on the boat with hubby next to me as our kids fight over who sleeps where. Little milestones keep us going.

ok.. so he's now on morphine injections, fentynal patches and a whole bunch of other stuff.. the yucky symptoms of vomiting and pain have now settled so he's just ultra drowsy and they say this will wear off... palliative nurses are being called in and everyone including me is freaking out.. we know what palliative means.. can people honestly go on for a while and live as normal as they can on strong pain medication?

Im finding it very hard to controlling my emotions around my mums cancer, I lost it in class last week during a class exercise? Does anyone else feel like this?

After some 21 months after her operation for her GBM grade 4 brain tumor Lorraine died on the 1 October 5.43 pm 2012. She had multiple seizures some 8 weeks ago. Hospital for a week and new medicine. She has lost most of her mobility on her right side. Full time nursing wheelchairs, eating and toileting Two weeks before her death she had extreme pain in her bowels/stomach area. Hospital again. Back home after a week now with morphine with increasing levels for pain management She is sleeps/unconscious most of the time