A trip with triple negative breast cancer

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  • An interlude of normality

    Coddfish
    On my better days, I realise there is no point wasting today on worrying about what tomorrow will bring. The oncology appointment will get set up and I will hear about it by snail mail letter. Possibly Easter will get in the way too. Even if I move s...

  • Relief and frustration

    Coddfish
    I had my follow up appointment today. Naively, I expected all the disciplines of the MDT to be at the clinic so that it was a one stop shop to agree what happens next, even if it meant a succession of meetings. But no, it was just the surgery team fe...

  • It starts

    Coddfish
    Once upon a time there was no breast cancer. Well there probably was, but I didn’t know about it. Here we are in early April, diagnosed, stage 1 of my treatment completed (wide area excision plus sentinel lymph node biopsy), a few days away fro...
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