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One aspect of my life that I really had trouble coming to terms with after diagnosis was the loss of all my connections - my people connections.I have been giving this a lot of thought now that my head seems to have stilled and I can actually think again. I've come to some realisations, but I am unsure how this will affect my response to people and my relationships in the future.

What an exhausting weekend and its only sat, I am totally buggered. Today both Dan and I are "recovering" from a massive emotional drain - yes that's right a huge ass fight. For months we have filled our life cup with constant stress, anxiety, fear, pain, treatment for cancer, everything cancer and more cancer.

There is some helpful information on handling social situations here . WWW1UpOnCancer.com

It has been just over a year since I was diagnosed with Oesophageal cancer, things were going really well, strange person I am I actually got better on chemo so when it came to surgery over Christmas I was cancer free from the bits they removed including the lymph nodes. Reason to celebrate with small meals, due to stomach shrinkage as I was discharged from hospital on 1st January Cancer free which was my goal.

Some bright spark ( that would be me) thought that it might be nice for us to go whale watching together with our neighbors, nine people got in the boat and five had their heads in the buckets the whole time, four due to motion sickness and one apparently from self inflicted measures from a busy Saturday night. And it wasn't Andrew.