Paul Mescal’s mother Dearbhla has been admitted to hospital for another round of cancer treatment.
The mum-of-three revealed earlier this year that she was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, which is a type of bone marrow cancer that often affects several areas of the body, such as the spine, skull, pelvis and ribs.
And just weeks after she arrived on the red carpet of the Academy Awards looking glamorous with her Oscar-nominated son, Paul, Dearbhla was back in St James’ Hospital for her next round of chemo treatment.
Speaking from her hospital bed, she said: “I am quite settled. I have my pictures on the wall. I am ready for chemo tomorrow. I get a big line put in in the morning and then I go with the flow.
“Thank you for all the lovely messages. I will do what I can when I can.”
She later said: “I slept pretty okay. I have had my picc line put in. That is going to give me the start of the chemo this afternoon and it will also feed me if I get too ill or if I need further pain meds.
“Other than that, people who work in this field are just wonderful. I am still assessing the place I’m in, and also the place I am in - The physical and the mental right now.
“I haven’t put the TV on yet, I haven’t put on my music yet. I am literally sitting in the quiet. I am just allowing myself process it.”
Dearbhla also updated fans as Paul’s father Paul Snr escorted her to St James Hospital on Thursday morning.
She said: “15th of July to the July 21st to diagnosis, to 17 weeks of initial treatment in the Beacon Hospital, to harvesting in December to the crazy awards season that we were able to participate in and have crazy fun time as a family to a little bit more chemo to right now, we are very blessed to have a bed and I am going in for the final stage of this part of my treatment, which is a bit of hard, heavy dose of chemo and then I get my stem cells return and they start to grow.
“All will be well. From now on, it is day by day, moment by moment and into the arms of St James Hospital and into their care, I go.”
Speaking before she went into hospital, Dearbhla told her followers on Wednesday: “I got a bed, I’m feeling very, very blessed, very, very lucky.
“So I decided on my route home that I needed to come for my walk with this guy (her dog) because I know it will be a little while before I’ll be walking our little path.
“A little bit of mindfulness, as I step into the unknown.
“Everyone who is on my care team has told me what to expect, but it is still the unknown so it’s with nerves, excitement and joy I start the next.
“I don’t know how to explain the feelings I have. I think I was getting anxious that it was going to take a long while for it to happen. In other words, I thought it would be after Easter because of holidays and staffing.. all the normal stuff.
“So now that I am doing it, there are no words for how I am feeling.
“I’m feeling so lucky that I am feeling so well. I am managing my pain, my daily energy and I’ve listened to my body and I think there is a key to that.
“I think the key to this is that you do listen to your body and I think that’s what I’ve done, I think, pretty well.
“I would say to anybody going through any kind of medical disease, I would say trust your body and trust the instinct of yourself within that so in other words, if you have to say no to the coffee with friends or you have to say no to that night out or whatever it is, people who love you and care for you will understand.”
Dearbhla said her illness has made her learn so much about “who I am on this planet” and “where I want to go in my life after all of this”.
“I think I know who will be with me on the journey now, which is quite interesting and the kindness of people will astound you and should astound you.”
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