Cancer and Pills my journey with cancer by Mel

 

This is my wife Mel’s story about her long journey with cancer

 

Hi i’m the Dafthermit wife Mel

I was diagnosed with breast cancer 3 times.

6 years ago , i was living and working in Newbury as a care worker and my life just fell to bits.

I was so worried and very scared and thought my life would soon be over.

I had to undergo chemo for 6 months and it made me feel worse than ever ,i was so tired i couldn’t eat and i lost a lot of weight.

I was sick and so ill but the nurses gave me pills to stop me being sick , pills for this and pills for that.

 

And the chemo brought on my menopause which made me even more ill , but don’t worry the nurse said we have pills for that.

 

I have must have been taking at least 10 a day , I have never felt so poorly the pills had so many side affects as well.

 

The worse was my beautiful long auburn hair which fell out in chunks . I felt so low by now i was a total mess.

 

But i new i had to be positive otherwise i would not have made it, i also had to have six months radiotherapy where i ended up being burnt so bad.

I couldn’t move my arms much due to the raw burns.

Don’t worry said the nurse we’ve got pills and cream for that as well.

 

Ever day i rubbed in the cream but i had no effect , Andy took me to my favourite beach in Wigtownshire ( 350 miles away )and i swam all day nearly.

 

I couldn’t believe what the sea did , it healed all the nasty mess and i found i could move my arms freely again.

I had a check up again and they found another lump on the second breast . i hadn’t had to the chance to get over the first treatment i was still undergoing

 

I was lucky though i didn’t need chemo just radiotherapy again

 

But for six weeks this time

 

Again i was so sore i thought of giving up , but you cant can you

 

Six years later i am now at the stage thanks to the mountains of Scotland

where just last month i decide to stop taking so many pills

 

i have stopped all my anti-depression pills (prozac)

my sleeping pills and hopefully come of the my other anxiety pills

 

 

I have also for the last two tears stopped going to the hospital this was after i spent 3 years living with a wrong diagnosis of bone cancer .

 

It has been six years now and every day i feel better and feel so good to be ditching the pills

 

I now live in the highlands of Scotland it is a beautiful place to recover ,lots of fresh air mountains and lochs to look at , i don’t think i will be depressed looking and being surrounded by gods beauty

 

Mel xx