Family, Friends and F-Cancer

Hi everyone,

Firstly from a still wet and windy England I would like to wish you all a slightly belated Happy New Year and hope it brings you and your families good health and lots of happiness.

The festive period has been one of the busiest I have know and on most days whilst on holiday I have either had visitors round to the house, been invited out for dinner or just met up with friends for a spot of lunch. I think given my diagnosis has been so recent (November) everyone seems to have wanted to spend time with me, if not to listen to the woes of hospital visits, more just to see that I was ok and coping with this new dilemma.

It was on the back of all this attention that I realised just how important family and friends are to us and how fortunate I was to have such support available to me. As I said in my previous post I had vowed from the start that I would deal with the problems thrown at me full on and never let my morale drop or my sense of humour diminish and whilst with my friends that never became more apparent and important. In a strange way I felt it was easy for me as I would, like a sponge, absorb all their love and support and it would make me feel stronger and more resilient. We as the cancer sufferers know what is happening to our bodies, the treatment we will receive and how we have to come to terms with and deal with the problems that lie ahead, whereas our family and friends feel lost and at times unable to respond in a way that they feel is right.