We found out yesterday afternoon that my son has secondary liver cancer. The Doctors believe it started either in the bowel or bladder and has travelled to his liver. They have informed us that they cannot ‘cure’ secondary cancers, but they can control it with medication.We have no definitive diagnosis or prognosis at this pointContinue reading “Currently Dealing with … Update #5”
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Currently dealing with… Update 4
Hey people, I hope life is treating you better than you hoped for and never worse than you could have imagined. I can’t say that for my own life right now, my son is now on his 86th day in hospital. They have found the real source of the infection, it is the liver, itContinue reading “Currently dealing with… Update 4”
Currently dealing with… Update 3
Hey Peoples, I hope life is treating you kindly, I sincerely hope that your friends are treating you kindly too. Weird thing to say right? Well, under normal circumstances, (whatever they are), I would think it was weird but after a really dreadful visit from a long time friend on Thursday just gone I amContinue reading “Currently dealing with… Update 3”
Currently dealing with… Part 2
Hey Peoples, me again. I’m tired, cranky and in need of some kind of magical intervention in my life right now. If it can go wrong, it is doing and with alarming regularity. I have a question, why after six weeks of my son being in hospital does anyone think it might be, that IContinue reading “Currently dealing with… Part 2”
Currently dealing with…
Hello lovely people of WordPress land, how the bloody hell are you all? So, as the title of this blog suggests, I am currently dealing with some stuff that is bigger and scarier than anything I have ever dealt with before in my life, and that is not an exaggeration. My son, as many ofContinue reading “Currently dealing with…”
Sleep Paralysis
It isn’t a myth, it isn’t some wandering spook come to visit me, it is NOT a supernatural event or phenomenon. It is a very real and nasty experience that is hitting me almost every night currently and it is being created by my own mind. That’s right folks, my brain is doing me overContinue reading “Sleep Paralysis”
Avi Kaplan – Bass Singer extraordinaire!
Everyone knows by now I appreciate singers who go that extra mile to delight their listeners with their voices. None is truer in that respect than Dimash Qudaibergen and for a while now I have struggled to find anyone who is even remotely comparable in vocal agility. Until I tripped across Avi Kaplan. Avi KaplanContinue reading “Avi Kaplan – Bass Singer extraordinaire!”
Dimash… Again…
This is Dimash paying homage to the iconic ancestors that have founded & shaped his beloved Kazakhstan. He released this video on the 30th anniversary of the nation’s independence. He has said repeatedly that he always thinks of the day that he himself will leave the stage & join the audience. And that he wantsContinue reading “Dimash… Again…”
Some Positive News in Gem’s World
The breast cancer scare has been resolved and I have the all clear thankfully. The clinic I attended was full of women all with the same expression of terror in their eyes, all with the same fear and it was awful. I was desperate to be away from that reality and it cut into myContinue reading “Some Positive News in Gem’s World”
There is no good News Anywhere in Gem’s World.
My life has fallen to pieces in the past few weeks. If you read my previous post you know my Mum had a stroke and has been blighted by Bell’s Palsy. Her recovery has been greatly hampered by the fact that her ear is now very infected (apparently this can be a side effect ofContinue reading “There is no good News Anywhere in Gem’s World.”
Gemma - Journey of Self discovery 