The shock factor

Starting to see a difference in behaviour and memory capacity.


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Losing a husband

Dad didn't get better. The treatment just didn't agree with him and didn't seem to be working. Finally he was so bad I had to take him to A&E, I won't go in to how hard it was to get some help or advice that morning. The GP's would have taken too long to see him, the cancer team at QA had no advice but to go to A&E.

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The next blow

Someone else to focus on


By mid 2015 we thought things were getting back to normal, cancer treatment finished and as far as we knew successful. Little did we realise something just as traumatic was about to happen.

Dad told us he had kidney cancer, it had spread to the lung and he was starting oral chemotherapy immediately. I naively thought he would sail through the treatment in the same way mum had, how wrong could I be. I now needed to be there to support both of my parents. Read More…