Hi Nige.
I'm sorry to hear this. I had suspicions that you'd not been at your best but I didn't realise how bad your problems were.
Yes we do need to vent off at times and being fair I have vented off at times here and for reasons that I may not want to upset family, OK that sounds selfish to inflict it on the good folk here but in the main I have found the people here are compassionate and understanding, only a few get it up their humph and dislike some comments, their loss to be honest!
I'll say this to you as a positive. Anne's brother Tommy has had three facial cancers removed last year and a particularly bad patch on his forehead, he had been silly and left them for years, he had a bad car accident 35 years ago which left him with brain damage and he tends to leave things.
I will say that after a couple of months he was considerably better and now nearly a year later he is right as rain. The healing process takes time but the end result has been marvellous.
You Nige will gradually return to normality and you'll be glad you got it done.
Look after yourself and your more than welcome to have a blow out here