It’s my 2 year cancerversary

It’s 2 years today since I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Today I feel ok, we are having a wonderful Christmassy weekend. But, earlier in the week I was feeling really quite low about it, I think it was when I realised the date was looming. I wrote this little blog then, I still feel …

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Being A Mummy With Cancer – written for Netmums. Oct 2019

I thought being a new mummy was a steep learning curve....that was until I heard ‘those words’. Nothing can prepare you for being told ‘you’re in trouble’. For thats how my consultant broke the news to me. I was never told ‘you have cancer’ I don’t know if thats good or bad, but I know …

Sunday 31st March – Spring has arrived

Sunday 31st March - Spring has arrived It’s Mother’s Day, a day of mixed emotions for so many people, for those whose mummies aren’t with them, for those women who aren’t able to be mummies, for those who are mummies but their babies aren’t with them. I am one of the lucky ones, my dear …

Monday 18th Match 2019 – it’s been a while….

Monday 18th March 2019 - Its been a while… I’ve not gone MIA, finally life has been getting in the way of cancer! For too long cancer and its treatments have been preventing me from living the life I wish to, I can happily say that around Christmas time there was finally a switchover - …

51 weeks and counting…

Ally and I went away a couple of weeks ago, it was our first solo trip away this year and while it was wonderful, it got me thinking about the last 51 weeks. As we head towards my cancer-versary, or one year since I was diagnosed I hadn’t noticed it but with a little hindsight …

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, do more than just ‘think pink’

It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month (BCAM) and we are all being asked to #thinkpink, to #wearitpink, to purchase something pink, and to #coppafeel. While I believe wholeheartedly that we should be cancer symptom aware and we should all know our bodies and be cautious of any changes, I can’t bring myself to endorse the pink-ness …

31st August – Radiotherapy and the end of ‘active treatment’

31st August - Radiotherapy and the end of ‘active treatment’ Firstly I would like to apologise for the horrible tardiness of this latest ramble. By way of explanation, during chemo Ally and I decided that it was too much for us both to be living apart during the week (I guess my diagnosis was some …

Monday 16th July – Radiotherapy, Haircuts and Princesses

Monday 16th July - Radiotherapy, Haircuts and Princesses Here we go again. I am writing to you from the radiotherapy waiting room. I’m writing as a distraction because I am on my own and extremely terrified, I’ve spoken to lots of people and I’ve done lots of research, I am fairly sure I understand the …

Monday 21st May – a sharp scratch and count down from ten….

Monday 21st May - a sharp scratch and count down from ten…. Following on from the huge and delicious last meal before surgery in Cornwall, Ally, Filly and I had a quiet night at home (the former snoring loudly while I stared at the ceiling for the largest portion of the night, unable to sleep.) …

20th May – Happiness can always be found, and the last meal before surgery

20th May - Happiness can always be found, and the last meal before surgery It’s now been over 6 months since I was diagnosed with breast cancer (if you’re catching up, I was diagnosed in December 2017 with Stage 2 breast cancer with lymph node involvement.) It certainly hasn’t been the 6 months that my …