Two weeks ago I lost my lovely mum to bowel cancer. I feel I've been so naive. Just always thought she'd get through it. On diagnosis it was declared inoperable...she never liked to talk about it but said it was 'treatable' . I'm guessing what she meant was if the chemo worked well she could have several more years (she went through a year of hell , never coped well with the chemo). I never really understood why it was inoperable...on death certificate it said it was a primary adenocarcinoma of the ascending colon? I feel I totally wasted a year. I've 3 very young children and live 6 hours drive away. But still i should have been there more. I'm rambling really. Utterly Devestated. I fear she knew she wasn't going to last long but didn't want to worry me. Why oh why couldn't they remove the bloody thing?
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Savvyandchips · 29/08/2017 14:42
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