Cancer... A lesson I'm just about to learn...

Hi people,

I haven't been around much I know, we have just discovered that my Mother-in-law has Cancer.. TRAGIC is not the word for it!

It came all of a sudden out of no-where, the hospital thought she had a Stroke, but we find out its much worse.

For weeks she's been feeling weak, and having spells of confusion, yet she stayed silent. "dementia" she thought.. now all we can do is wait, watch her get ill, and hope for the best.

I've learnt that when things get serious, your body reacts, not necessarily quick enough, but those sign ARE there. Where my mother-in-law is a typical war child, she was taught to keep soldiering on, an admirable quality!

I can't even begin to tell you how we feel, there have been plenty of periods of silence as we all love her to bits, Dearly.

You keep asking why, you feel its tragic, she's not ready to go, yet, you have to carry on, not knowing whether the treatments going to make her worse, how long she has or whether or not the docs can cure her... what is a person to do?

Wait, be hopeful, thats all we hear, yet something turns in your stomach, and you know you are in it for the long haul because thats what you do when you are in a family... since this happened all I think about is how are we going to cope without her, and I don't mean in death, I mean how are we going to cope without her being on top of the world as she normally is!

Life works out right for the wrong people!

I'm only writing this, because on the outside I have to stay positive..

I'm hoping for the best xx

Thanks for reading x

Mistress