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It's been a month since Les passed away, I am just not coping well at all,I have returned to Sydney from Perth where he died and brought his ashes back with me, am staying at my daughters place at the moment as I do not have a residence to return to,as we were renting before making the caravan our home.

After receiving a cancer diagnosis I found there was so much to learn about the illness and how to get through it and most of the time I wasn’t able to process it all. During treatment I decided I wanted to help other people by sharing things I had learnt, so with that in mind I set out to write a book called The Things I Learnt About Cancer Without Doing A Google Search. It is ebook available on http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/160210

It's been a week since my partner has speaking difficulties. We can communicate to some extent. The main part he wants to say couldn't come out easily but still we talk and laugh. I try to encourage him to write and he said he couldn't. I found his notes that he wrote last night while I was asleep and it's very upsetting that I couldn't understand it. He had similar problems but not as bad prior to the surgery in August last year and he was back to normal after the surgery.

Three weeks into chemo radio to shrink this insidious cancer that has decided to sit very nicely in the rectal passage.Have coped quite well so far although am finding the radio very fatigueing,was warned of this side effect but truly didn't comprehend the intensity of the fatigue.Very little nausea,some interesting bowel movements,hand and foot symptoms just starting but overall still feeling pretty well and am posting this message in the hope that someone coming behind me[pardon the pun]may not be as anxious or unsure as I was,Ihope to help at least one person one little bit then at least th

This was something that I wrote during my recovery after the operation. It was a little bit off the topic of Cancer, but I still think that it is relevant because I wrote about how life changes direction, and how I perceived these changing directions. For me, having Cancer has changed me quite alot, for the better in a lot of ways. http://www.thecancerstory.com/2011/09/part-9-something-for-rest-of-us.html

Today was special - often I am so busy organising things for my mother-in-law, managing appointments and medication etc that I don't get to just be with her and enjoy the special person she is and the impact she's had on her family. I had hoped to get her out into the garden which she loves and misses (but feels scared to go out into alone.) Unfortunately the day was bitter cold and very grey and grim, so the garden was not a good idea. Instead, after I gave her injection and made a cuppa, we were able to just sit together for about 2 hours.