It's Gone Tits Up

I’m loving angels instead

2022-08-25T12:00:00Z

This is Lydia, Alex’s sister I’m sorry to update that Alex lost her fight with Breast Cancer on the 5th August. I couldn’t bear that her last post and picture was about her paralysis. My sister was so much more than her illness.&nbs...(read more)

I’m running up that hill

2022-07-10T12:14:00Z

Today, 7 of my best girls completed the 10k Newcastle Race For Life. We had planned to all complete the race together and raise some cash for this amazing cause that desperately needs funding. I obviously cheered them on from my hospital bed with a c...(read more)

I can’t feel my face when I’m with you

2022-07-09T19:10:00Z

So yeah, the last words were a total jinx. I couldn’t have tempted fate more if I had tried. On the 25th June my ‘journey’ took a very different path to one I could have never imagined. I attended my oncology appointment as planned ...(read more)

It’s all so quiet

2022-06-20T11:29:00Z

Famous last words. I hope I’m not tempting fate with them. It has been a very quiet few weeks because I’ve slept through most of it. I had my last chemo with no issue 3 weeks ago and had my Oncology review booked for today. Stupidly, when...(read more)

Just hold, On We’re Coming Home

2022-05-26T12:26:00Z

Yesterday was the first day I managed to have a full day at home without having to attend the hospital in the last 2 weeks. Apart from last weekend it’s been another eventful few weeks. This time it was all about platelets. When I had my chemo ...(read more)

A chemical reaction, physical attraction

2022-05-10T15:25:00Z

I’m writing this post from the Maggi’s centre today, bit of a change of scenery for my appointment. I’ve been at the Radioactive Medicine Department of the hospital where I have had a lovely 6 hour day booked out for me. They inject...(read more)

I’ll make a cup of coffee for your head

2022-05-05T21:03:00Z

So it’s been a little while since I’ve been on here to post. There’s been a lot going on in that time and to be honest I feel like it just all got on top of me for a while. Sharing my doom and gloom feelings while I was still feelin...(read more)

Another one bites the dust

2022-04-01T11:56:00Z

It’s been just over 3 weeks since my right boob faced the same fate as my left and had to leave us. I had a checkup last week and had the steri strips removed and had the wound drained. It’s all healed up very nicely so far. I had an appo...(read more)

The best things in life are free

2022-03-22T13:00:00Z

I have 5 brand new M&S post op front fastening bras size 40A that need a home. I obvs have no need for them now but I’m sure someone will. At £25 a bra it ain’t cheap having surgery. 3 of them have never been worn and the others...(read more)

I am woman

2022-03-15T19:17:00Z

It’s been a week since my surgery for my second mastectomy operation. Nothing says International Woman’s Day like ‘get this other boob off me now’. I know I’m a bit late to the game with it being a week past, but I&rsquo...(read more)

I bruise easily

2022-02-23T10:08:00Z

Last week I had an amazing week on holiday with my sister after a busy week of hospital appointments the week before. The lush feeling of being too busy having fun to think about anything else that has gone on was a dream. Although it was full on, th...(read more)

Keep young and beautiful

2022-02-02T13:34:00Z

I’ve had the most amazing pamper afternoon on Sunday. After lush weekend at my sister’s celebrating my niece’s 3rd birthday, I seriously needed some time to myself to regroup and charge my batteries. After thinking that losing my ha...(read more)

There’s only one Bobby Robson, One Bobby Robson

2022-01-27T18:01:00Z

In the last 7 day’s I’ve had 2 appointments at the Sir Bobby Robson Cancer Trials Research Centre. I’m so lucky to have all this on my doorstep. I had a meeting with the director of the trial’s unit. She is literally the most ...(read more)

And then I fall to pieces

2022-01-11T21:40:00Z

I’ve climbed the ladder in the cancer world very quickly. I have Stage 4 cancer. Metastatic breast cancer. The cancer has come back in the scar tissue of my mastectomy and spread to my bones and liver. My treatment plan remains pretty much the ...(read more)

I’ve become so numb

2022-01-10T11:54:00Z

Apart from still being physically numb on my left side, I’ve been very numb to the news about my cancer spreading. Over the last week, that numbness has turned into anger. I’ve been running through everything with fine detail and I’...(read more)