Isn’t it funny how you can be brought back down to earth with a bump??
My future mother in law has been poorly and after seeing a doctor on Friday was told that she would need to have a camera but up somewhere not very nice. I have been in that situation myself so totally empathised with how she was feeling about it.
Just after midnight on Saturday we get a call from Dennis’s sister to say that their mum had been taken to hospital. She lives quite way away and as Dennis had been drinking down the pub, I got dressed and off I went. After sitting in A&E for 45 mins waiting for her to supposedly come in, I was told that she had been there since 8pm and went off to a ward just before midnight.
Thankfully they let me go up and see her. She looked so frail and this is a woman who shows tremendous courage and strength and to see her like this was heartbreaking. She was in fairly good spirits but I guess that was purely down to the morphine.
She had been for scans and xrays and was awaiting the results. She was having saline pumped into her and when I left at 4am she had just started a blood transfusion as she was so anaemic. When we were chatting she did say she hoped it wasn’t bowel cancer but this was my first thought after our conversation on Friday.
I managed to catch up on some sleep and I had arranged with my other half that I would drop him off at the hospital while I took the children round to my mum’s for a while after we had gone to Easter egg bingo at school.
When we got back from the bingo we were told that his mum was in surgery but that was all that we were told. Dennis went to the hospital by himself and told me when he got back that his mum does indeed have bowel cancer and it had spread to the kidneys.
They have got nearly all of it but mum in law now has to face the decision over whether to have chemotherapy or not – I really hope that she has the strength to fight this even though it is incurable. She has so much to live for with her grandchildren and has a zest for life. But, at the end of the day, she has to make a decision that she is comfortable with.
I had been toying with the idea for ages that I would run the Race for Life but hadn’t done anything about it ….. now, I have and am running it on 19th July. This does not give me long to train but I do hear that you can walk it!!
I have set up a sponsor page and would live it if anybody reading this could find it in their hearts to sponsor me. It doesn’t matter if it is only £2 – every little bit helps to help raise funds for cancer.
You can find details of my efforts here:
