Archive for October, 2006
From the Other Side
Saturday, October 28th, 2006The diagnosis was days coming. When Roos found the lump she decided to see the GP, Noreen. Noreen’s been looking after our family for a few years. She’s been there through the pregnancies and the baby troubles, the small illnesses, the high fevers and Roos’s low moments in the troubled times before giving birth. She’s […]
The Children
Thursday, October 26th, 2006One of the hardest things to deal with was, for me, how and what to tell the children.
I discussed it with my husband.
We didn’t want to frighten them, although that would be inevitable. We decided to feed them the information they needed to know , answer all their questions honestly and try and help them […]
From the Other Side
Thursday, October 26th, 2006The moment Roos realised she may have breast cancer we were struggling to get the kids out the door for school. We were living in a house that was not suited to the six of us. We were cramped, the house was damp, and all round I’d say we were not at our best. The […]
A long road
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006Breastcancer has always been on my mind. My mother died from it, my sister had it a year later, my aunt had just been diagnosed.
I was on a screening programme, having yearly mammogrammes
It was a Sunday morning. I was lying in bed , with my hand on my left breast. I was thinking about the […]
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