I’ve discovered a wonderful support group of friends. You know deep down they’re there all the time and it really doesn’t take much of a crisis for them all to rally round. G and I sat and chatted not long after the cancer was confirmed and decided my hair had to go. Not completely - [...]
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It’s good to talk - Part 2
Published November 7th, 2007 in Communication, Miscellaneous stuff, NHS and ovarian cancer. 7 CommentsNuns get it, apparently. Non-smokers get it. Ovarian cancer, that is. I can make no claims to anything in the nun department, despite the nunhood clearly being my destiny at 7 years old. Seven year olds are notoriously fickle, though, so by the time I was 8 I had the medical profession in my sights. Given recent events, [...]
Should I stay or should I go?
Published November 5th, 2007 in Blogging, Boys, Communication, East Lothian, NHS and ovarian cancer. 9 CommentsMy blog is fast approaching its first anniversary and I find myself in a place I couldn’t have dreamt of a year ago. As a family, we seem to have experienced a Series of Unfortunate Events this year, starting with the death of my father-in-law in January (we all hated those books, by the way). On [...]
It’s good to talk - Part 1
Published November 2nd, 2007 in Blogging, Communication, NHS, Working at home and ovarian cancer. 4 CommentsI’m not sure how I ever had time to work. After the excavation of my insides, the physio said “You’ll need at least 6 weeks off work. Maybe 12.” My comment: “So that’ll be 2 weeks then. I’m self-employed.” I could in fact have started work again last week (make that 1 week) but I’ve [...]
Bed blogs
Published October 24th, 2007 in Blogging, Communication, Hospital, Internet, NHS, School and ovarian cancer. 0 CommentsPatientline is the communication system that is installed at each patient’s bedside in the ERI. It provides a personal telephone number, television, radio - and internet! Woo hoo! It took me a day or so to discover the internet function and a little longer to get onto Edubuzz (I like the new look, by the way!) [...]
Thank you
Published October 21st, 2007 in Blogging, Family, Hospital, NHS and ovarian cancer. 8 CommentsHome again, and recovering, I’m the owner of a line of body piercings that a punk would be proud of or a Goth would die for. I knew I was on the mend once I started composing blogposts in my bed instead of trying to work out which body part hurt least and so could be [...]
Thank goodness for S1 Biology. I’m prompted to write this as I was told that I didn’t put enough information in my earlier, rather too oblique post, so I thought I’d fill in some of the gaps. Read on if you dare. S1 Biology fortunately made telling the boys what’s going on a lot easier [...]
Too much information?
Published October 4th, 2007 in Family, Hospital, NHS and ovarian cancer. 10 CommentsLife just isn’t fair sometimes. I mean, I know I half expected to be hit by a bolt from the heavens as penance for missing GP1’s birthday. But I didn’t really anticipate taking a full on blow. And for goodness sake, I’m here after all, at home, not away. I am going to make a [...]
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