Oh Carol please keep posting. I love reading them. I know like me Norman has good news but we are still going through Cancer. I love your ramblings and look for them every day. You’ve cheered me up many a time and I like to feel we are friends. Lots of hugs xx

I'm back and I'm happy to  keep posting.   You're right, we are still living with cancer but the euphoria of no further growth has put me in denial!  Our central heating is making a funny noise and the bath tap is coming out in sympathy with it and no water is coming out, this is not good because hubby can't shower with one leg!  We did get a shower leg but I don't think anyone with two legs would have tried it out, as Craig Revell Horwood off Strictly would say, it's a disaster darling.  We even paid three hundred pounds for a beautiful heart shaped seat to sit on, Ella now uses it as a table for her sponge and shampoo when she's here.  So I don't fancy a smelly husband and by 8.30 am I'm on hunting for a plumber.  Then my new cleaner arrives, was everything alright last week she asks,  I don't mention the broken toilet but ask her to make sure things are put back in the same place. She looks bemused , so I explain that having got out the shower on Tuesday I'd reached for the body lotion but ended up covered in shower gel instead and had to get back in the shower to wash it off!  So tomorrow is zumba day and I can let friends know our news, they will be pleased as they have supported me all the way through.   See you tomorrow xx

MouldermAt,  I think you may have read an old post, but welcome to the forum.  I hope you are getting stronger by the day, we've been battling for 18 months and from a 7%  success rate we are now stable.  So keep fighting and it's lovely to hear from you.   Carolxx 

Hello all; what a mixed week.  Sue, I am so sorry about Neil.  I knew he was not doing well but even when this is the case it is a huge loss and impossible to take on board.  Please keep posting and letting us know how you are doing.  Thank you for posting the lovely photograph.    And Caz (wow what a photo) what a relief for you that all is stable as the moment - you must celebrate and stay with us - well of course only whenever you want to do so.  Generally, hello to everyone - a lot happens in a week..  I didn't take any photos whilst away - I need to work out how to (a) take photos on my new phone and (b) work out how to transfer them here.  We had a good week in Somerset; we had considered making a move to Yeovil (in Somerset) but decided that we would get better value for our money if we moved out of the town a bit.  So most of the week was spent driving hither and thither (mostly thither) looking at properties all of which had just one thing wrong with them and it made me wonder if I really wanted to move.  We still had a pile of properties to view when time ran out and we came home.  We stayed a bit longer than we meant to do and I (sort of) considered staying to attend PeeWeeToms funeral which is in Weston Super Mare (not so far from Yeovil, well maybe 50 miles) but decided that his family would have enough to cope with without me adding to the crowd.  So I drove home and fell asleep when we finally got here.  Just before I went away the back fence collapsed and I asked Jim (brother-in-law of Eileen next door) to fix it.  It was a complete mess as it turned out and it took him half the week to sort it out and renew large parts of it while I was away.    I know my problems are nothing compared to your sorrows, Sue.  Love to all.  Annie

Firstly,  welcome back Annie, we missed you.  I've just written to Sue and her family have gone home at her behest.  Hubby is looking well and I think the fact that the tumour hasn't grown further has given him a new lease of life.  We are going to be telephoned on Friday by our nurse because the scar tissue is so dense they can't see behind it.  A meeting  is being held and our case reviewed.   I went to zumba this morning and one of the womens husbands came, he spent the whole class  prancing around, dancing in front of different people and generally being a pain in the ***!  One man totally disrupted a whole class who have been going for years!  I told hubby when I came home, you should have sat down and someone might ask you why, he said,   I'm not paying for a class to sit down!  So I used a golf analogy,  playing golf, a man starts throwing balls in front of your shot, then swings a club around your head whilst you hit the ball, he got the message!  7.30 pm last night, right in the middle of Corrie, the doorbell rang, I answered the door and a bloke in a bright white coat says, don't worry pet I'm not a chef, this threw me, he then shows me a badge hanging round his neck about Age, tells me they want to get people involved in looking out for Pensioners,  would I be interested in helping, No I say, oh why not, because I'm a pensioner I tell him, , he looks bemused but leaves anyway.  Hubby comes into the hall, who's that?  I tell him the conversation,  they're casing  the joint he says, lock the doors.  I love a man full of optimism! !  See you tomorrow 

Hello to everyone/anyone reading this.  I still have not got my new pc but my lovely next door neighbour (Lance) has loaned me a few bits and pieces until I do.  Sue, is it that you want to be on your own; I know that sometimes even people we love can be unsettling and we just need to be alone with our thoughts.  Carol, what is this about the scar tissue; I do hope that the wonderful news about the non-growth of the tumour is not going to be overshadowed by issues of scar tissue.  Regarding the dancing man could not someone have just kicked him in the goolies?  Accidentally of course.  If the man who called was casing the joint he will regret it the moment your hubby answers the door!  I have just got home from walking Muffin on Streatham Common - I cannot remember what I was about to say - it might be something to do with the glass of Baileys Irish Cream I have just downed.  Better stop while I am ahead (possibly too late).  Annie

Hi Annie and welcome back. Thank you, he went downhill very quickly once the oncologist said all they could do was keep him comfortable and give pain management.  As sad as I feel, I can't blame him, he was suffering even though he was pain free, and it was earlier than any of us expected, but I'll get there.  I told Deana and Nick they should go home, they have their own place and shouldn't have to babysit me.  I know their cats would be missing them also.  So I had my first night here by myself, it wasn't so bad.  They don't live too far from me and only a phone call away if I really needed them.  Still a lot of things to do, I was searching today through paperwork as I will have to get his tax done.  Not looking forward to it but has to be done.  I'm wondering which photo you saw, the one of my grandson wearing Neil's (poppy's) hat or the one of Neil on what I think was his last reasonably good day.  You have had a busy week.  Taking photos on your new phone shouldn't be too hard, but I always have issues getting them from my phone to my computer.  The kids come in handy for that.  They are whizzes with technology.  It's good that you managed to get your fence fixed.   Moving is hard, but if you find the right house it does make it so much easier.  

Love Sue xx

Have another glass Annie it will keep you warm.  We're you really thinking about moving, it would be a beautiful place to be but it's difficult moving in later life.  I could quite happily have taken your advice about the man, so annoying,  it's supposed to be a fitness and well being class, I didn't feel relaxed when I came home.  Norman has just come home and says he doesn't feel very well.  Well we managed three days without any problems ,  he aches all over, it's a good job he had the flu jab.  Xx

Hello all

I tried to post a couple of days ago -I don't know what I'm doing wrong....

Anyway, the wedding was wonderful despite Dave not being there.  It was a beautiful day and the hotel ensured everything went like clockwork.  A good time was definitely had by all.  Dave decided he didn't want to do the live link as he is in a ward now and not in a room on his own.  We showed him all the videos and photos the next day and he was fine. I'll try and post some photos!

Dave has to have intravenous antibiotics for 4 weeks before they will consider operating.  He is looking and sounding much better but the time is passing, at this rate it will 6weeks or so before he's home.  The hospital is pretty grotty - it is the one that's been in the news - the replacement building was half finished when Carillion went bust. But, the staff seem amazing.

Hope everyone is doing ok.  Good to hear Norman's good news and hope he is still alright.  Sue, you seem to be doing amazingly well. Love to everyone.

Julie