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Cancer

As most of you will be now aware, I lost my son on 10th December 2022 to secondary liver cancer. His battle with this terrible disease was short and thankfully almost pain free due to timely medication. He never really stood a chance because his cancer went undetected from the 4th August 2022 when heContinue reading “Cancer”

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Grief Journal

Despair We should be allowed one more moment with them, once a loved one has died I mean. We should be able to just pull back the blind and see them one last time before they go forever, just so we know they are okay now. What would I give for that one last moment?Continue reading “Grief Journal”

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Grief Journal.

ANGER As I sit writing this I realise I am forever intrinsically broken by the very recent passing of my son. I view the world in a very different, more abject way than before. I don’t care very much at all about anything. I know that a huge part of these feelings are grief drivenContinue reading “Grief Journal.”

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That’s My Boy

I could talk about Dan from several places in his life and all of them would be filled with passion and a single minded determination to succeed. His passion for his beloved sport, Wheelchair Basketball. The pinnacle of his time in the game as a Welsh International player. His happiest time in the game whenContinue reading “That’s My Boy”

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Final Update

On the 29th March at 10.29am 1990 I gave birth to the most beautiful perfectly imperfect baby boy and I rejoiced. Yesterday at 11.45am 10th December 2022, my beautiful son passed away. His final battle with illness and then secondary cancer was just too much for his tired body. He was 32 years of age.IContinue reading “Final Update”

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Currently Dealing with … Update #5

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”

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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”

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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”

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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…”