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June 2011
Dear Geoff,
Boy..that was just brilliant to read. Thank you for taking the time to lay it all out for me. There are some absolute pearlers in your blog that made me smile and hit home. Thank you again.I feel reassured and not so alone with my toxic thoughts. Its a real hard balance between feeling the love for my husband and fighting with everything else this hideous beast inflicts upon us so I will continue to meditate, go for walks and play my favourite music up loud when I have the house to myself on rare occasions. I wish you well in your struggles caring for your partner Geoff. Thanks also for the hugs which I now send to you. Cheers Gardenia.
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June 2011
Hey Superwoman...(love your name)...sometimes I wish I had super powers to make it all disappear. When good meaning friends ask me how am I going, I then get a lecture on how much I have to look after myself...they are right of course, but it is so much harder to do it than say it. At times I feel like I am hanging on by a membrane so when people give me that comment, I want to biff 'em in the nose. Ha you gotta laugh. Cheers and thanks so much for your comment. Hope you are coping well Superwoman!.
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June 2011
Hey BJS, it was so nice to read your comment. Planning my life as a single woman gives me something to look forward to (although I dread the loneliness) and like you I like to think I have some good times left. Your encouragement was really nice. Thank you!
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June 2011
Thanks for your reply Maddie86. Prognosis for my husband is unknown but the cancer is aggressive and the chemo is savage and this is the maintenance stage. I wish you well with your relationship with your boyfriend. I now know that cancer is like "the other woman" in a relationship...interfering and wont go away. Cheers!
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June 2011
Thank you so much Biganka for your sending me your little heart. So beautiful and so appreciated for your kind words of encouragement as well. It all helps not to feel so alone. Sometimes the "me" time is resented by my husband and it is so much more difficult to go but last night I did go to my class. Felt so much better afterwards. Cheers and thanks again so much.
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June 2011
I have been caring for my husband for several years now and just have had enough. I try my hardest to give him the best care I can but I just have this overwhelming feeling of wanting it all to end so he can be at peace. I cant see how our lives will ever get any better, only more treatments, appointments and him feeling awful which then I get the brunt of. I am struggling so much. Getting time to myself is such a difficult thing. I do it but it is so hard. It feels so bad and selfish to want this to end. Feel so trapped and depressed.
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