I am a sceptic of most quackology that isn’t peer reviewed.  HOWEVER…My partner is not. She received a prognosis of inside a year in November and talked in a squeak for three months. Then she got onto this slightly fanatical Facebook site and its dodgy snake oil schemes, but in doing so, reclaimed some sense of control, and her voice back and smiled at my terrible jokes.  I don’t have a compromise as far as vaccines are concerned. You can have all the freedom and right to choose as you like, but nowhere near me or my family. We had Covid over Easter and she will die if she gets it again and she has no freedom or right to choose.  ... View more

We found out my partner has uterine sarcoma last July and that it would be terminal in the same half hour meeting. She felt she had let me down and I thought of what we were going to miss as a family and over the next couple of weeks, we realised we were both grieving for a future we had yet to lose.  We learned to live for the next day and next week and stopped thinking too much about the future. Our anger, fear, guilt and sadness all came under grief for what had yet to happen. It didn’t take away the intense trauma we felt, but we could allow it to run through us. We couldn’t control what emotions we felt individually, but we did manage to accept them as a shared grief.  Don’t turn down help when you need it and give each other space.  I wish you both strength and love and hope you come through together.  ... View more