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@hooleydooley that is awful, hope you get some better offers.
I will be coming over WA again, June, August, October/Nov, maybe we could all catch up,
@shaydee, sometime, even if I am a bit zombielike.
@Mr Stickyfingers this may interest you...
Major breakthrough as doctors REVERSE symptoms of a stroke: Patients to walk, talk and live a normal life after stem cell treatment - up to 3 YEARS later
- Major breakthrough as doctors reverse the symptoms of a stroke
- Patients regained the ability to walk, talk and live a normal family life
- Stem cell treatment found to work up to 3 years after a stroke, say expert
- Millions of people could benefit from the simple procedure, they believe
Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...ll-treatment-3-YEARS-later.html#ixzz4AU0b4MuB
I have been getting what comfort & support I can from various online places, going to paste some here, for others going through rough times.
I read this one almost every day, brilliant...
Ask Polly: My Sister Has Cancer, and I Can’t Go On
Even though you'd rather crawl into a hole than face this reality, you can't.
http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/05/ask...ancer-i-cant-go-on.html?mid=emailshare_thecut
The Letter....click on the blue link for the advice
Dear Polly,
My sister has been diagnosed with terminal cancer—at 44, with children.
This came out of the blue. She has not had previous cancer. The cancer was missed, her doctor was supercilious, her boyfriend finally took her in to the emergency room for pain after he became fed up. She received her first scan there, only a few weeks ago.
I am soon to be scanned for the same cancer. It doesn't matter the result as I'm so tied to my sister's case I feel already I am in the same position. I wish with all my heart it were me, not her. I want to take it on for her.
I am also terrified of the change in family dynamics this will bring. I would like to maintain a distance from my distant mother, but that will be harder. I very, very much want to maintain a distance from my whole family (physical and mental) but in good conscience cannot go on doing so. I guess that is a separate concern.
So much of your advice — really the whole idea of how Americans and almost everyone lives their lives — is predicated on the thought of a future. Working toward the future. Self-improvement, hoping for true love, working toward an end of some kind (job promotion, writing for publication, more money, etc.), even saving for retirement. The hope that this or that can be overcome. That's all anyone thinks about. That's all life is. The hope of the future.
Now, in my own sadness and in hers my thoughts have changed: no more caring about self-improvement, about makeup tricks. No more new clothes or consumerism because the items cannot be used, the clothes cannot be worn. Who cares what you wear? Who cares about getting skinnier, fatter, diet tricks and tips, organic eating, all the shit and noise and drone of the stupidity of life in America.
What about when that way of life is wiped out? Gone? How do you radically change your thinking about how to live when the end is staring at you? I know all the Buddhist live-in-the-moment, mindfulness junk. I don't want to hear that.
I am gutted and feel I cannot go on (ironically).
Gutted