Just returned from I's funeral. Please remember his family and friends in your prayers. Honestly we could all do with them. The only bright spot was actually being able to attend the funeral, and the wake, in person.
My step-son’s cancer has returned, in the lymph nodes near to the previous site. He will start chemo in two weeks’ time, for nine weeks. At the moment his partner is almost incapacitated by labyrinthitis, a side effect of Covid. They have a seven year old daughter.
No relatives live near, and we are not especially close. Mr Puzzler is saying very little - not unusual, and he has his own health issues, so we are not in a position to be much help.
I find it difficult to raise the subject if he doesn’t want to talk, and as a step parent I am not in direct contact with the young family.
@Puzzler, This disease is a difficult one for all. I am sure you are doing the best you can, by just supporting his father with his own health issues. Prayers for your family.
Thinking of the family of @Doc Tor 's I and for @Puzzler 's step-son and family. What a grim situation. May there be comfort for you and support alongside the young family.
A cricketing acquaintance of mine, and good friend of mutual friends, is in palliative care in Scotland - what his doc thought was gallstones just before Christmas turned out to be bowel cancer that had spread to his liver, and the prognosis was months rather than years. He's now in a hospice and it sounds as though he has days left. Just 44.
My employer is trying to create the next generation of cancer drugs, but it's not fast enough for so many...
My granddaughter's maternal grandfather just found out he has esophageal cancer. He was treated for lung cancer a few years ago and has told his daughters that he refuses to have chemo again and just wants nature to take its course.
Funeral tomorrow for my friend Dorothy who has died after an agonising brief struggle with aggressive pancreatic cancer. We will sing her to heaven. She was quite a lady. Rest in peace Dorothy.
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No relatives live near, and we are not especially close. Mr Puzzler is saying very little - not unusual, and he has his own health issues, so we are not in a position to be much help.
I find it difficult to raise the subject if he doesn’t want to talk, and as a step parent I am not in direct contact with the young family.
A cricketing acquaintance of mine, and good friend of mutual friends, is in palliative care in Scotland - what his doc thought was gallstones just before Christmas turned out to be bowel cancer that had spread to his liver, and the prognosis was months rather than years. He's now in a hospice and it sounds as though he has days left. Just 44.
My employer is trying to create the next generation of cancer drugs, but it's not fast enough for so many...
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I'm just devastated for all of them.
Forty fucking four. What a shit of a disease.
It's the cricket club dinner in a shade over two hours. I think those of us who knew him may be getting very troshed indeed.
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I went to the surgeon for a checkup yesterday, All is well. I go back in six months (August) and have to schedule a mammogram for April.