Okay - so this is one of my "serious" posts. The one where you don't get any laughs. Today marks an anniversary - its one I don't wish to celebrate. One year ago, my mum, aged 54, discovered that the excruciating back pain she had been experiencing for about 10 weeks was not a pinched nerve or slipped disc. It was actually a number of metastatic tumours in her lower spine. She was diagnosed with lung cancer which unfortunately had spread to a number of sites in her body, but mostly painfully her spine. I suspect she knew for a long time that she wasn't well. But, mum had clinical depression, a little agrophobia and an extreme dislike for medical procedures. She hated to be poked and prodded and didn't particularly like baring her body or soul to any doctor. I think she put her tiredness and general feeling of being unwell down to her depression. She was a lifelong drinker and smoker and didn't like to discuss this with doctors. S...
A not-so-serious look at the life of an average kiwi mum who has been on a not-so-average journey. A mixture of humorous and contemplative posts which will have you in tears one way or another. There's something for everyone: true-love, infertility, multiple-birth, hysterectomy, abuse, death, chronic illness, suicide. I hope that my way of dealing with everything - no sugar-coating but with a smile (however tenuous) on my face and an inappropriate joke, might help you along your journey too.