Suspected Breast Cancer

  • 5 years on!

    It is now January 2023 and almost 5 years since my mx. I am ‘still’ waiting for the contralateral mx and reconstruction, thanks to delays caused by Covid. I feel normal again. I am trying to be normal again, but fear eats away at every waking moment and often creeps into my sleep too. I have spinal degradation, brought on by the treatment, which makes it painful to do anything, even walk, but I’m alive. I worry about…

  • AWAKE Anniversary

    Here I am again, this time to celebrate the anniversary of the Awake thread, 3 years! How easy it has been to forget how my life was impacted by all this, turned upside down and rattled till everything fell out and smashed. It took a long time and a lot of fighting to find all the pieces and put everything back together, to achieve some kind of normality. I thought I had gone back to normal, but I realise now that I am…

  • Another Year Passes

    I can’t believe it has been a year since I last wrote on here! Life is completely back to normal, although what is normal? I feel great, my energy is back to what it was, I look well again, my hair is getting long (and gets greasy again!), my allergies are back (not so good), I have to shave my legs, lol!

    Life is manic, work is busy, but it is all good. I was just trying to put my blog posts back onto the site,…

  • Time flies by, life moves so quickly

    It has been such a long time since I wrote in my blog. Life is back to normal, work is so busy and stress levels are through the roof, but related to normal things, like work, family, moving house etc! Health issues have taken a back seat for a little while. Part of my mind is always back there, ready to jump if it needs to. One thing I can safely say is that I would never be frightened to be checked out; I know that…

  • Getting closer

    I have just 3 RT sessions to go! My skin has coped very well and I have been using the R1 and R2 creams religiously! I have used double the sachets of moisturiser and although it itches a little, I am not sore and there is hardly a difference in colour to the skin, apart from my underarm, which is very dark. I have felt very well throughout and hardly tired at all. The Herceptin injections seem to be not going so well…