It's a date....

Simple as that

2 April 2011

7 June 1976

3 July 2009

29 December 2006

11 August 2008

9 September 2008

29 December 2016

What are they?  Dates that signify something...

The day we got married

The day I was born

The day we moved into our first bought house together

The day Scarlett was born

The day I found my first lump

The day I was diagnosed with primary, aggressive breast cancer

The day I was diagnosed with incurable cancer

However, 'dates' are proving to require more thought now.

Booking my holiday to Ibiza with Suze (more on that to come in a subsequent post), I had to enter my passport details, including the expiry date.  But will it expire before or after I do?? It's 2022, who knows?

Shall I buy a magazine subscription for two years? Hmmm, I'm not sure.....

Even a tin of beans!!!  When I looked at the expiry date in 2019, I wondered.....

It's a real tough one for me....most people my age will be thinking about watching their kids grow up dreaming about what they might do with their retirement, and thinking that they are about half way through their life with lots of time left.... but that has been taken away from me and I don't have the luxury of thinking about a long term future, I may never know what Scarlett decides to do with her life.... Can you imagine what that feels like???

Mainly very, very sad....

I know none of us know what's around the corner, but when you have a life-limiting disease there is an inevitability.

Walk a mile in my shoes....you'll soon get blisters and pain!

But I don't want to end on a depressing note....

So, here's a picture which makes me smile.....(even if the grammar is incorrect!!!)