The lips of cancer

From the heart Alison. Always remember you do not take this journey alone. Sad but true. Amongst the devastation friends hold your hands and walk with you along the same path. The future is uncertain for us all. But here we find some small solice through the chaos. Jools x

That's it Alison - you have absolutely crystallised what it feels like.  The knot inside which you can never completely ignore, the uncertainty and the knowledge that life has changed for ever.  Thank you for expressing it so beautifully.  Kate xxx

Not too bad on the eloquence here,Alison (British understatement).

MORE, please.

Pat

always so irregular

from such an early age

though by the age of 29

i'd had three children fine

sterilization after number three

not wanting to further add to the family tree

had the fallopian tubes clipped

didn't want another blip

still irregular but didn't mind

all that changed at 35

periods regulated for the very first time

every three weeks without fail

always knew when to the very day

normality i thought at last

even though it was hardly a blast

i felt so normal, healthy too

even when i hit 42

periods can be so fine

even when you feel like slime

for me to bleed five days non stop

and then to have them three weeks off

i really thought i had it made

i thought ill health was in the shade

my oestrogen i was to find

had made a very special bind

to cancer cells that hid away

inside my milk ducts far away

no longer from my womb does my blood flow

because of cancer it had to go

my periods used to be just fine

then the cancer came to dine