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Loss

  • Rog and Sam
    Family, Loss

    A difficult week and a visit home

    It’s been three weeks now since my husband Roger moved to our local hospice, and two weeks since I had my first overnight stay there. I still haven’t got round to…

  • Family, Loss

    From hospital to hospice

      Tomorrow I get to stay overnight with my husband. It won’t be the night away we’d hoped for, in a rural B&B or chi-chi city centre hotel, but it will…

  • Family, Loss

    The worst week of my life

       If you know me or have been reading my blog, you will know we’ve had some very bad news recently. After weeks of investigations for symptoms doctors presumed were caused…

  • Family, Loss

    Cancer, kindness and cake

      This post could also have been called Eat, Pray, Love as that’s what it’s all about. I’ve had without doubt the worst week of my life. We’ve been trying to…

  • Family, Loss

    Finally, a diagnosis…

    On Wednesday we were told my husband has cancer. The next day was our wedding anniversary. The day after that, we were told the cancer had spread.  How do you take…

  • Family, Loss

    Back in isolation…

    The last post I wrote about hospitals was the one where I told you my husband was home and starting to recuperate after his recent spell in intensive care. A fair…

  • Family, Loss

    Waking up

    After four days of being in a medically-induced coma, today my husband woke up, squeezed my hand, looked at me…and asked me when he was going to be allowed home. This…

  • Family, Loss

    Clock watching and smiles

    What would you do if you had hours to kill while someone you loved was having major surgery? It’s not a question you get asked very often I don’t suppose. I’m…