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Posted Dec 15, 2005
My mom was rushed into hospital today after collapsing this morning. She's got a severe chest infection and is very anaemic. They are giving her blood & antibiotics.
I may not be about much for a while.
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One Thing After Another
Posted Nov 17, 2005
Just got back from a couple of days in Bromsgrove.
Tuesday night my uncle, who lives up in the Shetlands, rang me in a panic to say they'd just rushed my Pa into hospital with a suspected pulmonary embolism. My youngest son and I burnt rubber down the M6 motorway!
I took Mom for her chemo session, in the same hospital, on Wednesday & spent most of the day popping between the two wards whilst we waited for the results of Pa's tests. and we waited & we waited & then they decided to send him for a CT scan, so we waited for the results of that. Finally I took Mom home as the chemo was beginning to take effect & she needed to rest.
Pa finally got his results at mid-day today. No embolism, they think it's angina & asthma (which he's never suffered from before). The 'good' thing is, his follow up appointment will be in about 3 months so it's not an emergency. They've put him on an inhaler & beta blockers & he's to have a weekly ECG at his GP's surgery.
He got home from hospital at seven tonight, I got home at ten and I'm now off for a good night's sleep 
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The Big Foot From The Sky
Posted Aug 18, 2005
It feels like I'm right underneath it at the moment, and there's no voice telling me it's time for something completely different.
My Uncle Fred died on Friday, not unexpectedly, he's been ill for some time with Alzheimers disease and the same day my mom went for a chest X-ray as she's had a niggly cough for a couple of months that's not responded to antibiotics.
There's a shadow on her lungs and it's 99.9% certain that it's cancer again. She's having a bronchioscopy next Wednesday to confirm the diagnosis & to find out which type. She's already beaten cancer of the cervix over 20 years ago and had a radical mastectomy 8 years ago.
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An Explanation
Posted Aug 4, 2005
I've not been about much recently due to my closest female friend dying on Sunday 31st July.
She'd been fighting cancer for 7 years and we thought she was winning until June 30th when secondaries were found in her kidneys.
A sweeter, kinder, more gentle person you couldn't wish to meet, if she couldn't say anything nice about a person she'd keep schtumm.
She said all along she didn't want her husband to watch her die. She waited until he was seeing the nurses out and slipped away quietly.
The funeral is on Monday, family flowers only, so apart from a donation to Cancer Research we've adopted another Red Kite to be named after her.
Sleep well Jan - 1st July 1947 - 31st July 2005
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Who said it wouldn't last?
Posted Jun 23, 2005
I'm h2g2 5 today 
and <vodka&vimto> all round 
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