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  • It never really goes away

    Irishgirl16
    5 years ago I was in the midst of my chemo, our 25th wedding anniversary celebrations put on hold and life was a 3 weekly cycle of drugs interspersed with blood tests, scans and appointments. Now, 5 years on, I'm coming to the end of my Zometa infusi...

  • Penultimate Zometa

    Irishgirl16
    It's that time again!   But it's winter, and it's cold and my veins are even less likely to want to play ball.  I got up on the morning of my infusion, dressed in multiple layers, armed myself with a hot water bottle and gloves,...

  • Pinktober and Movember

    Irishgirl16
    There's not much more powerful than sharing stories and at a recent event of c30 colleagues, they did just that.  A colleague and I hosted an event to discuss cancer at work, leading with him talking about the challenges of losing one of his...

  • A chance to share

    Irishgirl16
    Ahead of Pinktober next month, our workplace “Gender Alliance” asked if they could interview me to talk about breast cancer in a work context, so today was a flurry of filming as I revisited my active treatment, now 4 years ago. I was ask...

  • Well that took the experience to a whole new level

    Irishgirl16
    Imagine having to lie super still on a hard bed for 30 minutes, paranoid that if you move you'll make the images fuzzy. The clunking and banging noises are so loud, even with headphones they drown out the music. The bed jerks as it moves intermit...
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