my relationship with my daughter

Hi Anita, I can only imagine the stress you are facing right now..  Chemo is not the best 'mate' in any dictionary I have seen..  It is so unfortunate that your MIL is playing games like this and it is possibly something you have been able to brush off in the past but not while undergoing treatment.  As your daughter is only 9 it will be a huge change for her too and it could be as simple as Mummy is sick and I dont want to bother her or possibly she does not know how to approach you.  When I went through my EBC my son was 10 and really did not spend much time around me at all (less than normal) and did not ask me to help him hardly at all (he is an only child and it was really hard for me not to have him hanging about). He understood it but at the same time did not understand much at all. We tried to keep him busy and dropped some questions just to check how he was traveling. By the end of treatment he was really really tired and we ended up sending him up to Qld for a beach holiday to make him feel better.

I am hoping that everything you are seeing is just intensified by the treatment, hair loss and even just the changes you have undergone and as treatment ends things will settle down..  I am hoping that your cousin arriving helps out and that the concert is awesome (it may help to show your daughter that even though you are sick right now that you are still there for her). 

Sending huge turtle hugs and hope very very soon you will see that things return to normal and your private time returns and brings you much joy.

hugs Sharon (pink66)