Worried (by sarah)
Today mum is in for another lot of radiotherapy and within fifteen minutes of her appointment starting dad has to go in for an emergancy colonoscopy.
I am concerned as his father died when he was about five months older than dad is now - of stomache cancer. Dads been suffering stomache cramps and problems for about 9 months now. His family are prowne to having weak stomaches and he kept saying it was food poisoning and stuff. Plus stress tends to have them doubled up but this has just gone on and on.
He told the doctors when we finially got him to go a few months ago that he had only been sick for a few weeks and so they gave him antibiotics but didn't even take any samples which I felt was remiss. Some food poisioning can lurk and needs special treatment. I can only think he was playing it down.
He hasn't lost drastic amounts of weight but he's got that grey look to him he had just before the heart attack and he is really run down to the point of catching colds and stuff which have been developing inot chest infections. This is not good as a) it is weakening him and b) mum is supposed to be avoiding contagious people 🙁
Mums energy levels were also not good over christmas when we saw her.
On top of that mum and dad are relient on the wages we pay dad but we are up against a wall and the person I have been working for has pretty much stabbed me in the back so once again we are trying to muddle through 🙁
There are other medical issues as well which aren't helping the situation leading us to feel we have more than one child to look after and not enough resources to go round.
I was hoping 2009 was going to be better, I was hoping we'd get out of debt and the like but the noose seems to keep tightening.
All I can do is work away and hope some new work comes up until then I am going to continue on my own projects in the hope that google ad revinue will keep us afloat. I'm not hopeful but never mind.
Tue 6th Jan 2009 1:46 pm 
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