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14/4/2014 at 4:46pm
Location: Scunthorpe
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The latest on Mrs CJ fight against the big C.
Clare needed 3 weeks (15 sessions) of radiotherapy following her chemo and mastectomy. These sessions were to be held at Castle Hill hospital in Hull, we arranged a rota of friends and relatives to make the journey, it's 30miles away and over the Humber Bridge, we could have used ambulance transport but it wasn't really viable with an extended journey time, we reckoned her 15min session would turn into around 6 hours out if we used the ambulance transport!
Well, the radiotherapy finished today. And that's the final treatment done with, no more trips to hospital for any treatments, just occasional appts for scans etc. And another p to smooth over the mastectomy site but that's not for a year or so. Thanks everyone for your good wishes, they've really helped us get through this very difficult time.
On the down side, we've faced facts and we can't see any future with camping in it, at least not for a couple of years. The treatments have really wiped her out and it's gonna be years, if ever, before she's healthy again. So with a heavy heart we have sold up a lot of our gear or listed it on eBay. It's best off out of the way rather than sitting there devaluing. And if we do ever decide to go back to camping then we have the fun of buying it all again!
Thanks everyone for your wishes and prayers, we'll still hang around here as camper without tent.
Take care.
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15/4/2014 at 9:29am
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It's wonderful to get to the end of treatment but it may take a little time for your wife to feel a great sense of relief and freedom. I have had a similar journey to your wife - mastectomy, chemo, radiotherapy x 30 - but you become so dependent on the appointments, treatments, the jargon, the wellwishers, that it can take a while before it hits you that you are finished with all that. And it can actually be difficult realising that you are 'on your own'!
But the good news is that over time perspective changes as strength and energy return. My op and treatment took place from 2010/11, we were building a house at the time then planning our daughter's wedding so 2011 was a fairly intense year. But from the start of 2012 I had such a burst of energy - all the previous year's stresses were past, the treatment maintenance was ticking over with meds & follow up visits - and I started to take on new projects that I wouldn't have considered before. Alongside that, the caravan was taken out of wraps and we headed off for a wonderful few weeks that summer. We found a lovely little campsite in the Costa Brava and we have left the caravan there over the past 2 winters and are now looking forward to heading off again next month.
So yes you have both been through a very difficult time, and you will find adjustments will still need to be made but the day will come when cancer is not having any more effect on your lives
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Shirley
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