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Looks like it will take longer than we thought for my mum to recover. She has finished her chemo and had one op. But now they have to go in again since there were some cells on the edge of the part they took out. Then she has to have her breast reconstructed using her own tissue which means a week in hospital and up to 8 weeks recovering. Then radiotherapy for up to 7 weeks. I thought it would be over soon but it looks like it won't be. I don't know why I am writing this I just feel really downhearted. I hate it that she is going through this. She is going to have the next op on my stepdad's birthday. This year has just been so horrible and stressful for all of us and I guess it is just taking its toll on me.
Posted on 10/05/09, 11:10 am |
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My mom has had cancer since 2002. She is in the final stages of colon cancer (stage IV) and is still able to get up and walk around a bit (that is, this week). She is 83 and still giving it the good fight. I am hoping that your mom can do the same.
It is very exhausting watching a loved one be ill. The feelings that you are having are entirely normal. There are lots of ups and downs in this journey and it is hard not to be sad and upset. Give yourself a break sweetheart. Sending you a hug, JK 
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im sorry bout ur mom but i pray for u guys
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I know this is tough on you. I can relate. The main thing is to keep giving it to God. He tells us to ask and he will answer. He takes our worries and stresses and holds them in his hand. I can only promise you that God is holding you and your family in the palm of his hand. Although its hard don't give up hope. Without hope, we have nothing. I know its hard, but keep trying to give it God. I love you and will be praying for you and your family. Beca
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Thanks all of you for your support. Your prayers help, even though I am not religious myself, it means a lot to know we are in your thoughts.
I have never been religious really but find it impossible to start now. If there is a God I cannot understand why he would want my mum and family to go through this, or anybodys family. It seems unbearably cruel. Why would he invent something as awful as cancer? It doesn't make sense to me. The only way I can make sense of it is as a kind of natural thing, that my mum's body is doing this though some fault in its natural makeup. I can't follow any God or Gods which would allow this to happen. If he has us in his hand as you say, why would he make this happen? What sort of God would want someone to go through this? What kind of a God would make my mother's body turn on her and destroy itself, so she has to take horrible drugs that make her ill and her hair falls out and she has bits sliced off her? Why would he want that for anyone? I do have hope. I have hope and faith in my mum and her amazing strength and our strength as a family. If we get through this, it will be because of that , because of us, not because of any God.
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