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My husband & I are celebrating our 43rd Wedding Anniversary today, will it be our last who knows! I've learned to live day by day & try not to think of birthdays, Christmas, Easter etc. each day he is with me is a blessing & I'll enjoy each day I have with him as much as possible.

I am getting a little pissed with the never ending but well meant assumption that everyone with cancer will recover. I went to a Living with Cancer workshop today, and even there, I had to point out that we do not all survive even with all the advances in cancer treatments. Sometimes our cancer is found just too late, and I got the usual response of people not wanting to talk to me or be near me when I tell them I am on palliavtive chemo to buy a bit more time. This is really getting on my nerves, does anyone else experience this or am I just paranoid?

That was the instruction I received on a Monday night about 7.45 pm in a telephone call from a female with an interesting accent. It could be something out of a Le Carre novel or it could be the instructions to a Sailor for any sort of nefarious activity that your mind may conjure.

so day one of mums chemo, its been about 8hours since she finished her first treatmnt the nurses were fantastic and made us feel fantastic helped mum get a wig and gave her a turban which helped. today made it all become a reality, its the start of this fight and the fear was getting to me alothough i contained it very well. so tonight she has been ill, hot flushes, throwing up, nausea, the nurse came and gave her a maxolon injection and settled her tummy enough to get in the medication anyway.

I posted the seven stages of grief in one of the forums.I think we grieve during the "cancer journey".It only hit me last night that that is what it was. I suffered from the loss of my previously normal appearance and the normality of life before. I am sure others grieve for the loss their former life and their body and how it worked. I think it was in the cancer forum where I listed the stages.

Hello there everybody,maybe not the right place to ask this but i cant really find any resources and really dont know what direction to go in at the moment....