One Life Live It

  • Tempting Fate

    So that was it?  The 5 year check up is meant to be a significant milestone but the fact that the radiographer was on holiday and I couldn’t have the mammogram as planned was a bit of a let down and once again I realise that the priva...
  • It never really goes away

    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

    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

    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

    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...