'Why Now?' - my reasons for writing this blog
A couple of months ago, my partner was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma . Around that time, between her hospital appointments and while attempting (and failing) to concentrate at work, I was searching the internet in a frenzy, trying to find blogs and articles that might give me an insight into the world I was about to enter as the lover, carer and best friend of a person with cancer (I will refer to her as ‘L’). But I couldn’t really find anything honest and difficult (I was feeling some pretty difficult things and wanted some honesty), and that felt isolating. So I decided that I would write about my experience – not only for my own therapeutic processing, but for other people who might have the misfortune to experience cancer – either in their own body or in the body of the person they love. I must state now that I know that L is the one with this horrible disease and no matter how I feel, it's not going to be as scary as what she feels. But this blog is from my point