Building a virtual Maggie's
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You just feel at a complete loss.
You just feel like everything, your life is just falling away from you.
And it’s like you just can't catch up with them.
It's almost like you're chasing, chasing chasing, there's just nothing you can do.
The news just got worse and worse.
It was just the around the inoperable, around
the not being able to be cured, I think was a big shock.
You picture all kinds, all the worst scenarios.
How much pain is she going to be in?
What's it going to be like? Is she going to end up in a hospice?
Is she going to end up in a wheelchair? What's going to happen?
You always come back to how long is he going to be here for?
It’s that fear of, that fear of family ..
not being with them.
Maggie’s has helped me to find some peace within what has been a very difficult situation.
Just that happiness that you take for granted.
That feeling of calmness and well being.
And I still have that and I didn't at one
point think I would ever have that again, because I was so anxious.
You can tell when she's been on a call with them because afterwards,
she'll come off, she’ll be like a different person.
Maggie’s has helped me to find some stability
and just a sense of calm in amongst what's a mad, mad, mad, mad storm.
It's just helped me to just stay in the moment and stay
calmer and deal with what is, rather than what your mind thinks may happen.
There's times when I sit with Charlie and I do sit and have a drink
and we're just sitting in the garden and we're chatting and that's really lovely.
Or there be times when I'm with family and I just sit and I think I'm happy
and the time of diagnosis I didn't think I'd ever feel like that again.
