A trip with triple negative breast cancer

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  • Nothing to see here

    Coddfish
    Another 3 months has passed. Another scan. Another anxious wait for results. Each time I go through this, my level of expectation of a good result is higher and therefore my fear of a bad one is worse. But I had nothing to worry about, as it was clea...

  • A tale of 3 months

    Coddfish
    In June, I received the wonderful news that following immunotherapy, a near death and life changing immunotherapy related adverse event, and a microwave ablation of the liver where the probe exploded and remained in situ, my cancer was in remission. ...

  • parkrun #250

    Coddfish
    In the time before breast cancer, I was a keen runner. Never fast, I had probably started too late in life for that, but it was something that gave me a lot of head space. I had been able to complete events such as the ten mile Great South Run, and r...

  • Into a siding

    Coddfish
    I have often compared having metastatic cancer to being on a train journey. Once you are told your cancer is incurable, you have boarded the train. You know its final destination. You don’t know the route it will take or how long the journey wi...

  • Step down slowly

    Coddfish
    Today was my 3-weekly oncology review and crunch time on whether I can finally come off the steroids. I haven’t been feeling good for the last few weeks. Aches. Stiffness. Headaches. Feeling tired and listless. Sometimes feeling slightly queasy...
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