My husband died just over 3 months ago. He had renal cancer which was first diagnosed 17 years ago. So we both lived with it for a long time and he had lots of surgery and changes in his health functioning. Since he died I've been reflecting a lot on the effect this has had on both our lives. I wanted to share some of this with other people affected by cancer, because it has been such a profound influence on the past few years. I also hope this may be encouraging to some people. I think there are many more people living with cancer now as the treatments improve, this can be both positive & difficult.