I've lost even more people to cancer in the last 15 years, family & friends, but also know 5 who are survivors, one is my Mum 🙂
My son has struggled with loosing his dad at such at young age and also with his mental health at times, but is now at the age where he can talk about it with me which helps him. I did my best to help him over the years but it was difficult when he was a very angry teenager.
Life now is good and Colin is talked about often as lots of things remind me of him and I'm very lucky that I have a partner who has no issues with me talking about Colin and sometimes even asks me about him.
We recently went to see Rhod Gilbert at Symphony Hall, Birmingham, this show is mainly based around his cancer journey and at times it reminded me about Colins cancer journey and the trips to various hospitals for appointments & treatments. (I have just re-read the notes Colin made during 2 of his hospital stays. They remind me of him and his sense of humour).
Colins cancer diagnosis and treatment journey helped me immensely when my Mum was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2022 and ment I was able to support her through her treatments. She had chemo (only 1 dose) and radiotherapy then a full bowel removal, which at the age of 84 is a major thing to cope with but she has recovered well even if she can't now do everything she could before as she hasn't got the strength she used to have, but that could just be her age! I now ensure she has lots of homecooked frozen meals she can reheat without much effort.
I now do lots of batch cooking!!
