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guitars4you

I think for all the piss taking we enjoy and all the stories we can generate - I'd rather she found out that Will has been unfaithful and she has decided to sod off - To find out such news is a kick in the groin - As I said above, it can attack any of us and I dare say we have all lost friends and/or family to the big C - I feel sorry for her friends and family and wish her all the best - She does come across as a decent person

mgaw

Grim news for anyone to get, least of all a young mother of three kids, read back through this thread for an illustration of why this place needs to have a look at itself perhaps. 

Hope she gets through it alright.  No one is ever the same after chemo that’s for sure 

swiller

Its a superb speech she has done fair play. That must be really hard to do, having to explain yourself on top of the hideous big c diagnosis and treatment. Its one of those rare moments for me where you do admire royalty, purely because of all of the added complications of global fame and speculation on top of a familiar family setup having to deal with the big C.

Shrews

Well, my fiancee in Belarus is currently going through cancer treatment at the moment. Had her 2nd chemo earlier this week. Has lost her hair already. I will go to see her this year at some point, although there is no right or wrong time whilst she has her treatment and I'm only allowed three months there anyway.

I also lost my wife to cancer 5 years ago, after an 8 year battle (and for her it was on top of a previous battle with it before I met her). I used to attend her chemo sessions with her, a constant flow of people, all ages, all colours, all sexes. When I saw these lovely people, all putting on a brave smile, I'd think about my own mortality and how fcking lucky I was to be healthy. But I take nothing for granted.

My ex-wife also battled through it at the same time. My daughter's mother. My daughter was 15 at the time. Those fcking years were just bloody dreadful. Thankfully, she survived. 

I hope Kate survives too. I hope she goes on to alter the course of history in terms of cancer as a disease we all dread. I hope she has the influence to put an end to it once and for all. 

Best wishes to her and William, whose father is also going through it, best wishes to their kids. Thoughts of Wills and Harry when they lost their own mother in that terrible crash. 

And of course, best wishes to everyone out there going through it.  It's time this disease was beat.

sinbaadi

Dumb people throwing mud and wild speculation because of a bad photo edit.  "Oh we're so sorry for causing you additional and completely unnecessary distress."

As if the "they're our royal family and they're there for us to talk about how we want" brigade would ever apologise for anything.  They're the entitled ones.

Philly_Q

That is bad.  I hate to hear that anyone has cancer.  

This may seem a very dumb thing to say, but it's sad to think she'll lose that beautiful hair of hers.  I know it's far more important that the treatment is successful, but I think your sense of identity is at least partly bound up with what you look like.  My sister had chemo recently and lost all her hair, she was very matter-of-fact about it but I'm sure there were some very dark days that she hasn't talked about.

Sporky

sinbaadi said:

Dumb people throwing mud and wild speculation because of a bad photo edit.  "Oh we're so sorry for causing you additional and completely unnecessary distress."

Do you think she reads the Fretboard? 

Or are you just trying to score points from her cancer, which is far more distasteful than anything in this thread? 

WYNIR0

Wiz for Sporks.

sinbaadi

Sporky said:

sinbaadi said:

Dumb people throwing mud and wild speculation because of a bad photo edit.  "Oh we're so sorry for causing you additional and completely unnecessary distress."

Do you think she reads the Fretboard? 

Or are you just trying to score points from her cancer, which is far more distasteful than anything in this thread? 

Haha.  I really hadn't paid enough attention to this thread to know if it's of that tone.  Perhaps I touched a nerve there.

Not entirely sure about the points scoring thing or with whom you think I might score points either.  Or do you think she reads the Fretboard?  

My comment is on the ridiculous reaction to an edited image and all the absolute idiocy that went with that across a huge swathe of society and the media, who only think as far as whichever sensationalist nonsense they're currently staring at or regurgitating.

earwighoney

Philly_Q said:

That is bad.  I hate to hear that anyone has cancer.  

This may seem a very dumb thing to say, but it's sad to think she'll lose that beautiful hair of hers.  I know it's far more important that the treatment is successful, but I think your sense of identity is at least partly bound up with what you look like.  My sister had chemo recently and lost all her hair, she was very matter-of-fact about it but I'm sure there were some very dark days that she hasn't talked about.

Apologies if I have overstepped the mark but how's your sister getting on with her treatment?

Sporky

sinbaadi said:

Haha.  I really hadn't paid enough attention to this thread to know if it's of that tone.  Perhaps I touched a nerve there.

Nah, it's all OK. I'd absolutely take the piss out of the badly edited image, not the cancer.

It's important to mock the rich and powerful, but there are limits.  

darthed1981

Philly_Q said:

That is bad.  I hate to hear that anyone has cancer.  

This may seem a very dumb thing to say, but it's sad to think she'll lose that beautiful hair of hers.  I know it's far more important that the treatment is successful, but I think your sense of identity is at least partly bound up with what you look like.  My sister had chemo recently and lost all her hair, she was very matter-of-fact about it but I'm sure there were some very dark days that she hasn't talked about.

I remember the, really rather brave, Sarah Harding from Girls Aloud chose to not lose her hair and spend her last months as "her" vs a tiny chance of survival with very hardcore treatment.

It must be an incredibly rough part of it, though maybe Kates is of a milder kind, not all involve hair loss.

I hope your sister is OK bud.

Fingers657

I hope she will be left alone now to fight her cancer battle in peace.

Philly_Q

earwighoney said:

Philly_Q said:

That is bad.  I hate to hear that anyone has cancer.  

This may seem a very dumb thing to say, but it's sad to think she'll lose that beautiful hair of hers.  I know it's far more important that the treatment is successful, but I think your sense of identity is at least partly bound up with what you look like.  My sister had chemo recently and lost all her hair, she was very matter-of-fact about it but I'm sure there were some very dark days that she hasn't talked about.

Apologies if I have overstepped the mark but how's your sister getting on with her treatment?

Not overstepping, she is doing OK.  Initially they thought they were going to be able to treat it with surgery, but then she had to have chemo followed by radiotherapy.  That's all completed so they are now, I suppose, in a monitoring phase... she has to take a variety of medications for years to come. 

She's been very down to earth throughout, no moaning or "why me" (I'd be the exact opposite), but you never know how someone might be feeling deep down.  She's never said what "stage" her diagnosis was at, and since she hasn't said I haven't asked, it's not a box you necessarily want to open.

This all came on the heels of losing her husband to a different form of cancer, not much more than a year earlier.

This reminds me that I haven't spoken to her for a couple of weeks, I shall give her a call this weekend.

Offset

Now we know what is what can everyone just shut the fuck up.

Timcito

Rotten news. I wish her all the very, very best.

Aornic

Wishing her the best. I privately held the belief this might be the case and that it wasn't announced immediately due to the King's diagnosis being announced at the same time.

I actually briefly thought about the possibility earlier today when I was in the waiting area of the Royal Marsden for one of my post-treatment screenings. Prince William inaugurated the Oak Cancer Centre last year around when I was going through chemotherapy, and now the man has had his wife and father diagnosed with it.

As I wait for the results of my blood test for tumour markers, cancer is an overwhelming presence once you've been diagnosed - even if you are someone who isn't generally as anxious as I am. I was lucky they found it early, and that the care at the Marsden was within reach and very well done. That being said, being diagnosed makes you feel like your body has let you down and you'll always have it in the back of your mind every time you feel some new strange sensation or pain. 

I wouldn't wish it, or the fear of it, on anyone.

littlegreenman

I recall when I was referred to a specialist for some "abnormalities" by my dentist and he said they were going to remove a couple of small "areas of concern" from my palette. It didn't really mean much until at the pre-op when the nurse asked "have you had any types of cancer before?".

To use a Scouse colloquialism, "my fuckin' arse dropped"! Panic, upset, fear, anger, the fucking lot.

I'm about 9 years clear now and no longer have annual check-ups at the hospital, which is nice, but every so often the fear and panic hits out of nowhere, what if it comes/ has come back?

At the end of the day, for all of their unearned privelege, she's still just someone's Mum, wife, daughter. Sure, she'll get the best care on Earth, but if it's a nasty one none of that will matter.

I wish her, and Charles, all the best.

Oh yeah, one more thing. Fuck Cancer!

Funkfingers

Offset said:

Now we know what is what, can everyone just shut the fuck up.

I wanna see whether the Daily Mail can find a way to blame Kate's cancer on Meghan.

earwighoney

Philly_Q said:

Not overstepping, she is doing OK.  Initially they thought they were going to be able to treat it with surgery, but then she had to have chemo followed by radiotherapy.  That's all completed so they are now, I suppose, in a monitoring phase... she has to take a variety of medications for years to come. 

She's been very down to earth throughout, no moaning or "why me" (I'd be the exact opposite), but you never know how someone might be feeling deep down.  She's never said what "stage" her diagnosis was at, and since she hasn't said I haven't asked, it's not a box you necessarily want to open.

This all came on the heels of losing her husband to a different form of cancer, not much more than a year earlier.

This reminds me that I haven't spoken to her for a couple of weeks, I shall give her a call this weekend.

Thanks for the update and good to hear she is doing ok.  I wish her well with the rest of her treatment.