, my mum's mum (my nan!) died of cancer when my mum was only 18 - i can't even imagine losing my mum to something like that, especially at such a young age!!!
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I lost my mum to it a week after my 18th birthday. It was awful and such a hard thing to live with. My mum first got it when I was 12... she had her 1st op on my 13th b/day had the treatment and was clear for 4yrs. We only discovered it was back when she had a simple fall in our garden and she broke her hip bone... the docs thought it broke to easy for such a simple fall and did loads of tests and discovered it had went into her bones... I left school and cared for her full time as my dad has his own business and he couldnt do it. The cancer slowly went everywhere and she unfot passed away. It sounds horrible to say this but I'm glad she did in a way.... although she was alive she wasnt living... she was so confussed and stuck to her bed and she just wasnt my Mum anymore. SHe was in constant pain and had a machine (dont know the correct name for it) attached to her tummy pumping the morphine in. It wasn't the way to live.
After being through all this I volunteer at a Cancer centre in Aberdeen... I usually get put to families in the same situation (ie with young kids with a parent with cancer) and I take them out every now and then to the movies or beach or something. They can also call me at anytime if they are feeling low. It can be hard as you get attached to them, but it is also rewarding to see the kids minds taken off the troubles for a while.
S. xx
