Min Cato

  • Oh dear Dai
    In the wars again. Hope they can fix it for you. Been away again for a while and haven't looked in in ages .
    Wishing you a speedy recovery
    Minx

  • Dear Gill,
    Your in my thoughts and I know you will find the strength to take you through
    Whatever life has to throw at you. Pm me if you feel up to it.
    Min x

  • Min replied to the topic Lost in the forum End of Life and Grief 12 years, 3 months ago

    Dear Teresa. And Judy
    I am so sorry to hear of the passing of your husbands.
    I know it is no consolation, but I am sure you will agree with the thought that they have both fought long and hard and are are no longer suffering.
    Its those who are left to grieve who suffer now, a pain which is indescrbable.
    The dark tunnel you both now find…[Read more]

  • Min started the topic Time for a laugh. in the forum Off topic 12 years, 4 months ago

    Just a bit of Adult fun, shamelessly pinched from the internet:

    'Baby bear goes downstairs, sits in
    his small chair at the table He looks into his small bowl.
    It is empty. 'Who's been eating my porridge?' he
    squeaks.

    Daddy Bear arrives at the big table and sits in his
    big chair. He looks into his big bowl and it is also empty.
    'Who's…[Read more]

  • Min replied to the topic The Answers in the forum General 12 years, 4 months ago

    Hi Andy, Proff Jackson is a really nice approachable down to earth man. Tell them at the desk that you are on his list. Or one of t hem may pick up your notes.
    There are a few blue badge bays near to the entrance, and you will be on the ground floor that you enter by. At the rear of the hospital. Follow signs for the Bobby Robson unit from…[Read more]

  • Heaven has gained an Angel,and we have lost a very dear friend. Dear Bridget has been in my thoughts a good many times lately. Imagining how her husband and children are coping with the reality of an event which seams surreal
    It stirred memories that I would rather forget and tears that she would have consoled me for shedding.

    Her suffering…[Read more]

  • Min replied to the topic Maybe a Good Idea??? in the forum Off topic 12 years, 4 months ago

    Myeloma uk produces a very good diary that you can record all in regarding treatments side effects etc and would urge you all to acquire one,they are available at no charge, but don't be mean, make a small donation .you know every penny is well spent.
    Min lying in bed with a minor irritating illness

  • Min replied to the topic PLATELETS in the forum Treatment 12 years, 5 months ago

    Hi eve
    peter was having platelets almost every other day- of and on -eventualy they gave him an injection that helped.
    He never had any with his first sct, but by now you know every one is different. If he is getting them its because he needs them. It all takes time,and the worrying does not stop. But think posative……..
    Min x

  • Dear Siobhan
    I am so sorry for your loss.
    Your Mum was a wonderful lady admired by all who ?met? her online at mm uk. I am deeply saddened to hear of you and your families loss of this lovely lady, who made the journey with mm with dignity and humour, and a very very caring atitude.
    Your Dad must be devastated, and I wish you all the strength…[Read more]

  • Min replied to the topic Bridget in the forum Off topic 12 years, 5 months ago

    Our Lovely friend Bridget.
    I am saddened to read the news from her daughter, on Bridgets face book page. She gave me such wonderful support from the moment Peter was diagnosed and after he passed away. She will be very sadly missed

  • Min replied to the topic moving on in the forum End of Life and Grief 12 years, 5 months ago

    Dear Dai and Janet
    Now I understand you.
    As directed I watched your 'The Wish' yesterday. I now know exactly where you are coming from and hopefully that is the same place as I am going !
    I believe it and thank you. Will watch it again tommorow if I can find the time. Off to a new quilting class. Love it. Just the thing to pass the time in…[Read more]

  • Min replied to the topic bereavment in the forum End of Life and Grief 12 years, 5 months ago

    Dear Stephen
    I understand a little of the pain you are going through. Grief if extremely tiring and its natural to feel exhausted as your brain wonders from one thought to the next in a nanno second trying to make sence of the unfairness of it all.
    Please don't forget your children are grieving too. There shorter lives have always only ever had…[Read more]

  • Min replied to the topic Hospital in the forum General 12 years, 5 months ago

    Its called barrier nursing .Eve. and you must insist on it.gloves plastic pinny and mask. And if that had been adhered to in Peters case he might just be here today. So don't let them get away with it.
    That's my drum banged . Only do it when I'm riled up.
    Which I wasn't because had a briliant few days
    I'm now going onwards and upwards to…[Read more]

  • Min replied to the topic My Loss in the forum End of Life and Grief 12 years, 6 months ago

    Dear Carol,
    Im so sorry for your loss, I KNOW exactly how you feel as its eight months since my husband died of mm, it was also very sudden and unexpected. Losing your husband is like being torn in half, I had been married for 40years and to suddenly be without him was heartbreaking.
    My husband had been ill with mm for two years and those two…[Read more]

  • Min replied to the topic moving on in the forum End of Life and Grief 12 years, 6 months ago

    Dear Dai
    Yesterday I drove home,and decided to cut actress country and drive through Nottingham forest, you were inexplicably on my mind and I kept thinking. If I knew where you lived in notts I would have called in to see you. You must have been typing you post at that time. Bizzare

    Instead I went on a journey to nostalgia to an RAF station…[Read more]

  • Min replied to the topic moving on in the forum End of Life and Grief 12 years, 6 months ago

    I am in the countryside looking after two grandchildren two cats, five dogs and two chickens one of which is broody orpington sitting on some bantam eggs!
    The daughter is in Dubrovnic with hubby and friends. Finally the sun is shining been here a week tom and its rained every b day.
    Finally the sun is shining and I am looking forward to…[Read more]

  • I thought I would let you know how life is after caring for my husband who died 8 months ago from myeloma. I know I moved away from contributing to the site but I have regularly,checked in to see how you are all doing.
    I started to go to cruse bereavment counceling a while ago.
    Its tough. Exhausting, and interesting.
    I developed a strange…[Read more]

  • Min replied to the topic Board activity in the forum Off topic 12 years, 7 months ago

    I think debs hit the nail on the head with regards to popping in when your i'll and need the support, but its a different kind of support that people in remission need in order to move forward.
    But I look in regularly can't help myself, just need to know your all OK.
    Cant just shrug of my cyber friends and confidantes
    Similarly saddened to…[Read more]

  • Dear Michelle,
    I am so very very sorry for your tragic loss.
    It is an absolute tragedy that one so young should have to suffer this goddamn illness particularly when he had a young family to love.
    You will have some difficult times ahead, and frustrating feelings too, you will survive and look back in the future at the happier times when he…[Read more]

  • Nice to see you at last Mavis, five loarge dogs in the countryside is not difficult as there are no leads and most of them are well behaved and non of them is under 7yrs old. Its mostly about letting them see who is in charge of the pack. In my cse that means my 7yr old yellow lab as she is on the ball.
    It was rather funny as all the others…[Read more]

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