This time yesterday morning I was a complete wreck. Sitting on a hospital bed. Hysterical. Crying. Panicking. NOT doing what my counsellor had told me to do the day before. She had said to take each part of the morning as a stage. To deal with each stage in its own right. To remember I had control and could say 'stop'. Unfortunately, this time yesterday, all that advice was still on a piece of paper in my handbag and…
Ok. Been psyching myself up for the last couple of weeks about my hair. Have been dreading the impending hair loss. Although in my head I knew getting it cut short would be best, it took a long time to mentally prepare myself to do it.
Last Sunday when I did a charity day for 'My New Hair', I straightened my hair for the day. It was the first time since diagnosis (7 weeks ago) that I have bothered to do anything…
I'm in a really good mood today. I mean, a REALLY good mood!
Want to say thanks to everyone for all your support, comments and hugs. Can't tell you how much it's needed and you have all made me feel so much better throughout this whole ordeal. This community is the best thing ever.
Looked back at my blogs after I wrote the last one and thought 'how depressing'. Decided not to write another one till I felt…
It's all going wrong. Thought I'd been more in control recently. Think I was just fooling myself. This blog is supposed to be titled 'Fertility'. However, the whole fertility issue is actually the root to the way I'm feeling right now - a pile of rubble again.
For the last two weeks, I have been feeling very dithery. Non committal. Twitchy. Since the meeting with the fertility nurse actually. We discussed…
A friend of a friend heard about my diagnosis. Turns out she is undergoing chemo for ovarian cancer. Subject of wigs came up. Trendco was the advice I got. Didn't know what a Trendco was, so I Googled it. It's a specialist wig shop in Kensington, London. Trevor Sorbie's name came up. He's a top London hairdresser. It's a shop he uses for his cancer charity. The charity is very new. It's called My New Hair (mynewhair…
