Sharing my thoughts and my life

In response to:Final update for a while

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:07:59 +0100

Great news. We hope that all continues to progress well for you. The best of Kiwi luck.

In response to:Foxy Friend

Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:00:13 +0200

Hope your dad will get out of hospital soon, and wow what a nice fox!, I would have a heart attack if I will see one!:)).

In response to:Foxy Friend

Fri, 01 Jul 2005 08:20:45 +0200

Thanks for your message Linda - it is by far best for P.
Hope all is reasonable with your Dad
Eve

In response to:Foxy Friend

Sun, 26 Jun 2005 07:29:47 +0200

Linda that is wonderful about you - I am so glad for you and yours. Hope your Dad will pick up soon
love Eve

In response to:Given The All Clear

Wed, 22 Jun 2005 14:33:33 +0200

Hi Linda,

It's really great news about the cancer. Even better, you won’t have to go through chemo. It's a bit of a pain having to wear a scarf in this weather I bet, but it's all for the best in the long run. Let’s hope that all the subsequent Appointments are just as good, even if they do become a bit of a drag. But it’s better to be safe than sorry.

I have to say after a thing like this, makes you appreciate the little things in life, much more. The smell of the flowers and the trees, not to mention the peacock, even if the bloody thing squawks at 3:30 in the morning and wakes you up!!

Lots of love
Peter

In response to:Given The All Clear

Wed, 22 Jun 2005 13:08:55 +0200

I'm so glad that the cancer is gone. Now it's time for you to go back to chasing bats and catching flowers blooming with your camera.

In response to:20th day Post Treatment

Wed, 15 Jun 2005 15:08:12 +0200

Hi Linda

Good to see that the neck is starting to look a lot better.

I see that you have seen the Oncologist. Does this mean that you will be having Chemo as well?

Peter

In response to:20th day Post Treatment

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 08:54:02 +0200

So glad everything is going so well for you Linda - well done.
How's your Dad?
love Eve

In response to:Treatment - day twenty

Wed, 25 May 2005 10:29:17 +0200

That was the right film linda, get the lights off when you watch it though, it'll soon test whether your voicebox is till working! Don't you be dissapearing altogether, quite like knowing my blogs being read...but if you do go AWOL, take care x

In response to:Treatment - day twenty

Tue, 24 May 2005 18:59:09 +0200

Dear linda
Well done!!!
Take care and don't stop blogging altogether, please
Eve

In response to:Treatment - day eighteen

Fri, 20 May 2005 13:33:40 +0200

Linda, dear, you are having one hell of a time! At least as you say, only two more treaments after to-day.
I noted a few 'blogs' ago that you said your GP would help by getting your father admitted somewhere if things got too much on top of you. When P (my friend) had her radiotherapy she felt pretty rotten for some weeks after it was finished; I know you are a lot younger and as far as I know you haven't also had chemo (which she had) but your Dad will be prety unwell for sometime after his radotherapy; have you got a good hospice anywhere near you? they would probably take him for 2 weeks and be v good at assessing his needs for the future (however short). You (and I imagine your husband) could do with a break so do think about it - tho' I imagine your first reaction will be 'NO'.
love Eve

In response to:Treatment - days 14, 15 & 16

Thu, 19 May 2005 10:28:40 +0200

Nice to hear from you again; it's good about Peter isn't it.
I think you may be right about your Dad
Eve

In response to:Treatment - day eleven

Wed, 11 May 2005 11:45:17 +0200

Do keep positive if you can - you have had such a lot to deal with and seem to be doing so well in yourself - well done; YOU and those supporting you are your greatest asset - keep thinking +ve . I know two friends (a lot older than you!); both have had cancer - one was always totally +ve and now has an 8 year survival; the other has always been pretty -ve and is now terminal
With thoughts and good wishes and prayers

In response to:Treatment - day ten

Wed, 11 May 2005 02:47:50 +0200

Monday must have seemed like 48 hours with the machines keep on needing to be fixed.

Chin up (excuse the pun)

In response to:Treatment - day ten

Tue, 10 May 2005 15:24:32 +0200

you keep bashing away at it,the fact your feeling stuff probably means your at least getting a reaction to the zapping...no pain no gain and all that. Pity you had to break the machine though! lol

In response to:Treatment - day six

Thu, 05 May 2005 16:29:16 +0200

Stick with it. you are nearly half way though now.

Love Peter

In response to:Two days to the start of treatment

Tue, 03 May 2005 20:54:45 +0200

This is Claire (Linda's daughter) and I just want to say how much I love my mum and how proud I am of her - in spite of all the other problems in her life she has to deal with at the moment she's taking all of this really well, which in turn helps *me* get through this as well. I feel helpless not being able to do anything for her (the radiotherapy being the only thing that can really help her) but I know that she knows I'm always here for her if ever she needs to talk or needs a shoulder to cry on and hopefully that is enough. I love you, mum. Claire X

In response to:A Diary Of My Laryngeal Carcinoma ( Cancer of the Larynx)

Mon, 02 May 2005 18:11:02 +0200

sat here with loads to write but nothing to say....glad your fighting it head on and the team around you i'm sure will keep you on the road to recovery, fight the fight!

In response to:Treatment - day four

Sat, 30 Apr 2005 12:06:25 +0200

Things will be the way they will be, reason fails to understand why.i believe we have the ability to face everything before us however bitter or sweet things are. Denial only makes our expereince more terrible. Though it is easier said than done, i still wish you would accept the situation, face it like a heart with great potential. This body is weak and unstable, it lasts only as long as it lasts and it is the case with everyone. Know for certain that you can still be happy by being detached to it.

You can prove to yourself that the pain is only of the body & not to you. A pinch is painful, but it can permeate only to an area of expereince, if the rest of your expereince namely your emotional state is having its free flow, u will definitely do better. Afterall, it is the expereince that counts. our sadness is for it. Do not unnecessarily think about that which creates a bad expereince. Let your attention be engrossed in something that can induce you into something joyful in its own accord simply by virtue of being engrossed in it.
Your experience follows your attention, Keep it where there can be peace and joy, override the logic of life's conditionings creating unnecessary fear and sadness.
Accept & be in peace,like a hero.

Forgive me if my words are meaningless.

In response to:A Diary Of My Laryngeal Carcinoma ( Cancer of the Larynx)

Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:19:18 +0200

Wow. What a story.

All the very best with your ongoing treatment. Fantastic that people can get the chance to read and understand, in some small way, what this can involve. We are all in some way touched by cancer, and so I wish you my sincere best wishes.

Kia Kaha (be strong)

x

In response to:Treatment - day one

Thu, 28 Apr 2005 13:18:56 +0200

Good luck with it all :)

In response to:Treatment - day one

Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:02:51 +0200

Good luck. Hope the film was good. It will not be as bad as the fear you have about the treatment.