I should really be doing my uni work, but am using every little thing I can think of to put off doing it, this is the last thing on the list, so after this I have no choice but to get on with some work.

I haven't got that muc to say, but I've got a few pics that I wanted to post.

We are in limbo with mum at the moment, still don't know if she can have the BCG treatment or not. She had a phone call towards the end of last week to go and see the nurse, so I assume we will find out then. She does have to go in on Friday for a pre-assessment for the op she's supposidly having on the 1st May, but again we don't know if that's going ahead. If she's having the BCG treatment the op will be cancelled, but if she can't have the treatment then the op will go ahead. It's a blinking nightmare at the moment, we all hate not knowing what's going on.

Uni is starting to get on my nerves as well, I just haven't got the motivation to get on with the work we've been set.

*sigh*

Anyway, pics, here they are.......

The girls from work and I had a weekend in London, did a bit of shopping and went to see Dirty Dancing. We all had a wicked time, a really good laugh and the show was great too.

A picture of my dog, isn't he handsome? :-P And to the other pic is us walking to the train station on our way home from London, well some of us. lol

That's it, all excuses used up, I'm off now to do something towards my assignment. Bye! XX

Another hospital appointment for mum today to talk about her treatment plan. Found out that in fact the cancer had started to grow into the first layer of muscle surrounding the bladder. To try to stop this developing further mum will hopefully be have a BCG bladder wash (same as the vaccine we all had at school) once a week for 6 weeks. I say hopefully because they need to check out that the TB she had when she was 5 and the steroids she's on now won't stop this form of treatment from working or won't cause any more serious side effects. The treatment plan as it stands sounds ok, no major side effects, maybe tiredness or flu like symptoms, but nothing more and if it stops the cancer coming back we all welcome the treatment.

Got a few extra pics to add, but I'm on my iPod touch at present, will add at a later date.

Last Thursday morning I woke up at just before 6am and looked out of the window, to which I saw a light snow fall. I didn't expect it to come to anything, it never does here, we're too close to the sea for snow. So off I went to have a shower. Came out of the shower, looked back out of the window and to my amazement the snow had started coming down like it was possessed. I didn't know what to do, I live at the top of an Isle, I might just about get off, but if it carried on snowing the way it was I was worried I wouldn't get back on. After a few phone calls to various staff members I decided to close the Nursery, the snow ad got so bad the police were closing roads and the road leading off of my Island was one of them. So we all have a 'Snow' work day. LOL! The first picture is of my mum, she really wanted to get out, but I wouldn't let her. Bless!


The second picture is of my dog chasing his ball in the snow. When we first went outside he just kept eating it. I did laugh though, I threw his ball and as it rolled along the snow, the snow collected around the ball. When he eventually got to it, he was looking all around for his ball, not knowing that it had turned into a snow ball. He was mighty pleased with himself when he knocked the snow off to reveal his little blue ball. LOL!




I took this picture to the left a couple of weeks ago, I think! I was using my laptop and slowly my dog moved his head onto my lap, pushing my laptop off, it was so cute. He was so tired, as you can see he couldn't keep his cute little eye's open.


I went to Birmingham for the weekend, went to Crufts Saturday and Sunday. With the BBC pulling out it definitely wasn't as busy as it usually is, although that could also be due to the economic climate. It's a huge show, with halls 1-5 being used, but there is a section that I love to walk around. The picture to left was taken in this section. It's called discovering dogs, where there is every breed of dog you can imagine. This little dog caught my eye, it was so cute. The next picture is the name of it, I knew I would never remember it and I definitely can't pronounce it. LOL!




There we go, a Kooikerhondje! Never heard of the breed, but I would really like one, although from the name I reckon it sounds quite expensive.

Had a great time though, watched some serious agility and some serious obedience. Mary Ray never fails to mesmerise me, she is such a good dog trainer. Will be adding a short video clip of her obedience round to my YouTube page, she got second place with it, although I thought it was perfect and deserved first place. lol


Mum's doing OK, still not completely right, but I don't think she ever will now, but at least she's showing signs of improvement, we just all need to get our heads around this life changing time and start relaxing. Every time the phone goes at work and I see my home number I freak out, need to get back in control of myself.


Until next time, cheerio! xx

I AM SO RELIEVED..............

My brother, mum and I went into the consultants office today convinced that mums cancer had spread. Why would they have sent for her so soon after her MRI scan if it hadn't. But we were all wrong, thankfully. The cancer has definitely not spread outside the lining of the bladder. They are awaiting the results of 1 histology report, depending on that result she might need to have her bladder washed out once a week for 6 weeks with a BCG wash, but if we don't hear from them then all is fine. Apart from that she will be going back in on 1st May for another cystoscopy under general anesthetic, for them to keep an eye on whether it is growing back or hopefully not.

I cannot tell you how happy we all are with those results, it's been a nightmare over the past few months, but now we can hopefully look to the future.

Aunties funeral on Wednesday, so we are off to Wales for that. I'm praying that will be the end of our bad luck. xx