Pictures from the weekend.

A wonderful weekend.

I thoroughly enjoyed my weekend. I went to my friend, Mary's hen night on Saturday night. She is getting married next week and I will be going to her wedding. It is the day after my party so hopefully, I will be well enough to go. I don't intend to get drink too much. Yesterday I went into Plymouth city centre with Tina. We had a lovely time. It was great, we had lunch and enjoyed having a spend out. Tina won!!! I bought myself a new wig.. I couldn't resist it. I am so excited about Friday. It will be good to see people who I haven't seen for a long time and catch up and also to celebrate the fact that I have done something that Dr's in the UK said wasn't possible. I was told I would have 6-9 months to live in November 2006 and 1-2 years in February 2007. I was worried I wouldn't reach 50, Well DR's look at me now!!!!

Brilliant day today!!

I drove to Paignton which is about an hour away from Plymouth, to meet Sam. Sam has just been diagnosed with Mesothelioma. He was on holiday with his wife and son and looked really well.

They are a wonderful family and don't deserve to have Mesothelioma imploding on them.

I was very impressed with myself, I got to Paignton and then got completely lost and had to call poor Sam a couple of times to guide me!!

The reason I was impressed is because I drive around town and don't do many long journeys. My little car, Halo and I managed to have a smooth drive and a lovely day. 

When I got back, I picked Siobhan up from college and then went out to meet Jean. Jean has liver cancer, she also has it in the lung. I have told her chemoembolisation is available in the UK for liver cancer.

I then went out with Siobhan for a curry and it was lovely, just like a mum and daughter should be. We have discussed doing the race for life next year which will be wonderful if she does it with me.

Meeting Julie and family

                                      Front:  Susan and David, Back: Myself and Julie
I met David and Susan with their daughter, Julie in Plymouth today. they travelled from Cheshire to meet up and ask questions about the Prof and the treatment. They were lovely people and David , Keep that hat on , you look good in it!! David has Mesothelioma and wanted to see how well i looked after having it and had a lot of questions to ask.

They stayed for about 30-45 minutes before setting off home. 

I am meeting Jean, a lady with Liver cancer tomorrow as we didn't get to meet today. She lives in Cornwall but works in Plymouth so it is a little easier.

As Chemoembolisation for liver cancer is available in the UK, I don't know why people are having to travel to Germany for it.

Today  has been good. Kieran is enjoying himself and sent an E-card of him and his dad in a space ship.

I bought Siobhan a card, some choccies, a balloon and a chocolate medal for doing so well. She is wonderful.

It's Richard's birthday next week, he will be 20. Hopefully we will be going out for a meal to celebrate.

Well done to my lovely daughter, Siobhan , who passed her illustration and print degree with distinction.

I am so proud of her. She has done such a good hob with this website and keeps on top of the technical stuff. She is a very clever girl.

I am meeting 2 people affected by cancer today. they want more information about chemoembolisation. One has Mesothelioma and the other has liver cancer.

I really hope they have success with it. 

I have so much to catch up on, I do not have to go to work until I am 50!!! I am off until 25th July. I have my party next week and, like the queen, as it was pointed out to me by one friend, I have 2 birthdays. My real birthday is 24th, I am going to celebrate with my babies. 

I am so excited about my party, It will be an opportunity to thanks all the special people in my life for their support through the horrendous time I had and for being with me through the treatment. Thanks to all of you, especially Pat and Tony, without them I don't know where I  would be here now.

So busy!!!

I have neglected the blog for a few days, I have been working my usual 3 10 hour days and then 3 days off catch up. Kieran arrived saftley in Florida, he is there with his dad and I am sure he will have a wonderful time. His dad didn't call to say they had got there and all was ok. I was out of my mind with worry on Tueday and ended up calling the hotel they are staying in to make sure all was ok. His dad's mobile wasn't working and he didn't want to pay the $30 for the phone call. I put him right on that one and said he should have reversed the charges as I wanted to know all was ok.

This is my last day of rotation and I am then off until 25th July. I am so excited about my birthday party. Just got to find a photographer to take some pics as I want an album of the event as a keep sake for the children.

I am behind with all my pictures so will sort it all out when I am off. 

I am meeting 2 people tomorrow to discuss the treatment and going to visit another on Friday. 

2 have Mesothelioma and one has liver cancer.

Must go as I have to sort my self for work.

Kieran's sports day

Kieran had his sports day yesterday and it was lovely. The weather was beautiful. all the children did well.

Tomorrow he is off to Florida with his dad so today I took him to Gunnislake in Cornwall. We went on a train. He loved this as he enjoys going to the station and today it was even more special because we didn't just look at the trains, we had a trip on one. We got a taxi into Callington and had a drink and a doughnut and came back to Plymouth.

I am going to miss him so much while he is away.

I hope Kieran has a wonderful time with his dad. He will probably come back with a lot of Jonas brothers memorabilia as he likes listening to them.

I am back to work on Monday till Wednesday and then i am off for 2 rotations....woo hoo!!

It will be party time, My party is on 17th July and I am really looking forward to celebrating with some very special people who have helped me through my worst moment to date.