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Date: 14 April 2004 12:41:21
... for what I fear will be another introspective wiblog entry.
To-day, this afternoon, daughter will receive her final treatment. A chapter is ending. It's been difficult, traumatic, tiring, but also inspiring, and heartwarming, especially through the kindness and professionalism of the people at the Edinburgh Cancer Centre. We should be glad, though, that it's all over.
One of the mums at son's nursery asked me this morning how daughter is doing. I tried hard to be positive. But underlying the relief as the treatment ends, there is dread of what it has accomplished. The only visible sign of what she has endured is some hair loss where the beams enter. Inside her head, what has changed?