I knew there had to be more to it. When they showed the latest picture of her at the garden centre, I thought she looked like a stick insect, not surprised if she's been going through what she has.
As they say cancer is a real leveller, doesn't matter who you are. That's her and Charles both dealing with it. No one should have to go through this but I feel for her being a relatively young mother, and the kids having to go through what will be extremely difficult for them and possibly growing up without a mum.
I'm guessing that's because of the surgery she's had and having to recover from that. It's not good though. Going through chemo your body really needs to be much stronger (more weight for starters) to deal with the harshness of it. After an operation and looking this weak, it's not great. Depends on the chemo of course, I just read it was "preventative" so not sure.
The thing that gets me, and I posted about this before, is the delay in diagnosis. From reading the news today, at the time of the operation they had given the all-clear regarding cancer. Then some time after the operation they then find she has it which then impacts on her chances of successfully overcoming it. Now this is someone with all the privileges, probably has check ups routinely every year, and it still gets missed, so what chance the rest of us? Which is why as a country we're one of the worst for it. And it's one of the biggest factors in the likelihood of surviving it.
The worst thing about cancer is that it can lay dormant for ever but sometimes you have an operation in a different part of the body that wakes it up and because defences are weakened it can rip through the whole body, happened to a class mate in primary school and my mother in law The second worse thing is that it is part of the bodies natural regeneration process and is almost invisible until it starts to become a problem
Yep I know what you mean, doesn't have to be an operation either. My Mrs lymphoma the consultant told me there was a genetic mutation in the blood some time after having a baby. Had to tell the mother in law not to mention that **** around the littlun ever.
Agree mate, it's the harrowing nature of the treatment as well isn't it. I can't think of many things where you have to go through that kind of hell repeatedly over such a long time. As BRB said earlier, fck going through chemo, I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. And then there's radiotherapy which is even worse. There's some ground-breaking and innovative things emerging around stem cell treatment and immunotherapy which looks to becoming a kinder remedy hopefully. I just hope everyone has access to it quickly.
Bit of a sad coincidence for them both to be dealing with cancer concurrently. Horrible disease. No one deserves to get cancer.
