LewisD wrote:Octoroc wrote:gooseberry fool on her tits?
Mate. I don't think it's appropriate to come out with that in this situation
Fair enough. But let's be honest, there's strawberry float all you can do, but ride that shitty wave and pick yourself back up when it's over.
But life does have it's compensations and you shouldn't feel like you have to be sad ALL the time even in the worst of situations.
So my advice would be- Just get through it, but try and find time to do small things that distract you and cheer yourselves up. Don't feel like your not allowed to have fun.
So here's some context:
To be honest I'm in a bit a grim situation myself. Last year my mum was diagnosed with kidney cancer, we only found of when her left thigh snapped whilst climbing down from her chiropractor*'s bench. She led on the floor for over three hours before an ambulance came. That was secondary bone cancer of course, primary source was her kidney. It's very slow growing so she probably had it for years. She spent the next three months in traction before being transferred over 100 miles to the Royal Orthopedic Hospital in Birmingham where they stuck her leg back together.
They fixed her leg, but she lost her mind. She isn't on chemo, they've put her on some new immunotherapy treatment. We thought that would be better than chemo. It isn't. It's like living death.
So the question we're asking ourselves is "even if she survives what will be left?". My sister thinks it would have been better if she had died on the chiropractor's floor a year ago.
I really do apologise, but to be honest I still think it was quite funny in a darkly wry sort of a way. That's the kind of place I'm in at the moment, but feel free to chastise me.
* or 'that strawberry floating banana split' as I call him.