Clare needed 3 weeks (15 sessions) of radiotherapy following her chemo and mastectomy. These sessions were to be held at Castle Hill hospital in Hull, we arranged a rota of friends and relatives to make the journey, it's 30miles away and over the Humber Bridge, we could have used ambulance transport but it wasn't really viable with an extended journey time, we reckoned her 15min session would turn into around 6 hours out if we used the ambulance transport!
Well, the radiotherapy finished today. And that's the final treatment done with, no more trips to hospital for any treatments, just occasional appts for scans etc. And another p to smooth over the mastectomy site but that's not for a year or so. Thanks everyone for your good wishes, they've really helped us get through this very difficult time.
On the down side, we've faced facts and we can't see any future with camping in it, at least not for a couple of years. The treatments have really wiped her out and it's gonna be years, if ever, before she's healthy again. So with a heavy heart we have sold up a lot of our gear or listed it on eBay. It's best off out of the way rather than sitting there devaluing. And if we do ever decide to go back to camping then we have the fun of buying it all again!
Thanks everyone for your wishes and prayers, we'll still hang around here as camper without tent.
Take care.
------------- Coming soon to a campsite near you, Jake, Mrs Jake, Little legs, Bosdog the Doodle and Olly the Cavachon.
2014:
August: Scarborough, High Yedmandale. Not tenting though, using one of their lovely holiday homes!
Glad to hear you are both out of the other end of this nightmare - a few weeks rest will see Mrs CJ feeling more human again. My friend went through much the same but is now fighting fit and ready for anything.
Regards to both you and Mrs CJ, glad you are emerging from the other side of a long hard battle. Never say never, I'm sure in the future you will both know if you are ready again and like you say, can have the fun of buying anew. Alternatively, how about a static on a nice campsite, that way you get a bit more comfort, less stress as you don't have to set up, but you still get to share a field with campers
All the very best to you both for the future.
------------- May/June - Spring Valley
Aug/Sept - Leekworth
How wonderful to find all of you are out of those nasty woods.
Best wishes for continued recuperation, maybe time for glamping?
However you decide for holidaying, You have your Mrs CJ
Best wishes
------------- 47 and only just learned how to work a sleeping bag
Good news and hope it stays good. You can always get back to camping if you want to - what's important is what's right for you two now.
However, really think about your gear. When parents gave up caravanning, they held onto some basic gear, notably a oven/hob and sleeping gear, plus their Calor Gas cylinders. Just after they moved into their new house, they suffered horrendous weather and were without power for seven days - this in a midlands small town. The camping gear they kept was a real life-saver! I use my camping gear regularly when we have cuts. Just a thought!
------------- " When I die I don`t want my life to flash before me in an instant, I want it to be a 3 hour epic !"
What good news, I hope the folllow up scans etc are all good. If so I imagine you will be wanting to camp again sooner than you think I know someone who has had chemo and radiotherapy and was running half marathons again in a year
It's wonderful to get to the end of treatment but it may take a little time for your wife to feel a great sense of relief and freedom. I have had a similar journey to your wife - mastectomy, chemo, radiotherapy x 30 - but you become so dependent on the appointments, treatments, the jargon, the wellwishers, that it can take a while before it hits you that you are finished with all that. And it can actually be difficult realising that you are 'on your own'!
But the good news is that over time perspective changes as strength and energy return. My op and treatment took place from 2010/11, we were building a house at the time then planning our daughter's wedding so 2011 was a fairly intense year. But from the start of 2012 I had such a burst of energy - all the previous year's stresses were past, the treatment maintenance was ticking over with meds & follow up visits - and I started to take on new projects that I wouldn't have considered before. Alongside that, the caravan was taken out of wraps and we headed off for a wonderful few weeks that summer. We found a lovely little campsite in the Costa Brava and we have left the caravan there over the past 2 winters and are now looking forward to heading off again next month.
So yes you have both been through a very difficult time, and you will find adjustments will still need to be made but the day will come when cancer is not having any more effect on your lives
So pleased that the worst is over and I see your still going away but in a cottage instead I hope you have a very happy summer ahead for you both and all those who have also gone through this awful experience xxxx
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I know someone who has had chemo and radiotherapy and was running half marathons again in a year 
