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Month: January 2018

Love But Mostly Hate

January 29, 2018January 30, 2018 ~ thelittlebigc ~ 6 Comments

Tomorrow morning is the last dose of steroids for this month. Until April 2020 Dylan will take dexamethasone twice a day for five days every month & frankly it would be an understatement for me to say that steroids are a test of everyone’s patience, strength & mental wellbeing. Dexamethasone is a steroid that is … Continue reading Love But Mostly Hate

Running on Empty

January 22, 2018February 4, 2018 ~ thelittlebigc ~ 1 Comment

I am so tired. At the start of this journey I spend every night next to Dylan in his hospital bed until he is allowed home; fifteen nights lying next to my little boy who has just been diagnosed with cancer. I do not really sleep, I have become hypersensitive. I watch him throughout the … Continue reading Running on Empty

This is Chemotherapy

January 15, 2018September 27, 2018 ~ thelittlebigc ~ 7 Comments

Dylan is due to have his eighteenth lumbar puncture to receive the drug methotrexate intrathecally this Wednesday. He will be given his twenty sixth general anaesthetic, a needle will be inserted into one of the spaces between the bones of his lower spine & the drug will be injected in order to prevent cancer cells … Continue reading This is Chemotherapy

A Dark Day

January 8, 2018January 8, 2018 ~ thelittlebigc ~ 2 Comments

Well, it was not the start to the New Year that I had hoped for. On 4th January 2018 Jill Williams, Nick’s mother (Dylan’s grandmother) passed away. She had non Hodgkin’s & Hodgkin’s lymphoma & as I mentioned in my previous post had been battling cancer on & off for the last twenty years. Recently … Continue reading A Dark Day

The Tightrope

January 1, 2018January 3, 2018 ~ thelittlebigc ~ 1 Comment

This tightrope stretches across the deepest abyss, into a blinding & indeterminate blizzard. The strength needed to walk it is phenomenal; it requires constant micro managing of reality versus my mind. I feel as though I am no longer myself, I have to focus hard in order to behave as rationally as possible for my … Continue reading The Tightrope

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