One Life Live It

It never really goes away

2026-03-21T13:25:40Z

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...(read more)

Penultimate Zometa

2026-01-25T19:10:00Z

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,...(read more)

Pinktober and Movember

2025-11-22T16:44:59Z

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...(read more)

A chance to share

2025-09-23T20:57:00Z

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...(read more)

Well that took the experience to a whole new level

2025-07-11T02:59:03Z

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...(read more)

Letrozole Legs

2025-06-08T13:30:39Z

Last week I had the pleasure of attending a work conference at a resort near Dubrovnik. Hubby came along for the fun of a week in the sun and our daughter clearly had FOMO and took a last minute flight for the weekend. Croatia is a wonderful country,...(read more)

So I didn't break a bone!

2025-03-14T07:53:36Z

It wasn't what I expected when attending a work conference. We were doing a short after lunch energiser, which involved competing with other teams to gather as many balloons as we could. I'm bending down to pick up (ok steal from another team...(read more)

Seriously, you lost my blood test!

2024-12-18T08:34:13Z

It's the hectic week before Christmas and everyone is cramming in last minute meetings at work. I just got home from 4 weeks working overseas, so my evenings are spent writing cards, packing presents, baking Christmas cake and soaking fruit for the C...(read more)

Cancer at Work

2024-10-19T05:45:00Z

There's something very satisfying in the simple act of knowing you've helped someone else and I had the chance to do this on Wear It Pink Day, as a guest panelist on a webinar discussing supporting employees with cancer. My co-panelist works for an o...(read more)

Needles and Pins……

2024-10-03T19:46:43Z

Needles and pins, pins and needles…..either way, there's been an annoying tingling, fizzing, sometimes slightly painful and very intermittent “thing” going on in my upper outer thigh. As I've said before, every twinge cause...(read more)

Zometa #6 and Lowering Cholesterol

2024-07-14T07:55:05Z

When I started the zoledronic acid bone infusions I was told these would be for 3 years, so actually this would be my last one. But, as is common with breast cancer, treatment protocols change all the time, and now these are recommended for 5 years, ...(read more)

The Annual Trip to the Hospital

2024-07-06T10:47:02Z

I always face into my annual check up and mammogram with a level of trepidation and a fair few “what ifs…..” on the few days beforehand. Normally I am able to compartmentalise my thoughts of recurrence risk, but as the check ...(read more)

Every Twinge……

2024-04-20T11:38:24Z

I woke up one morning on holiday a few weeks ago with a stabbing pain in my lower back. The “pre cancer me” would have chucked back some ibuprofen, rubbed some heat gel on it and not given it a second thought. The “post cancer...(read more)

Breast Cancer Women's Association, Malaysia

2024-02-10T08:57:14Z

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to visit BCWA in Kuala Lumpur. I was there with work and my local colleagues had done some fund raising for this charity and arranged the handover of these funds to coincide with my visit. Cancer remains a taboo ...(read more)

Is that a lump?

2024-02-07T19:37:00Z

Is that a lump? Is that a new lump? A different lump? The same lump that was there before? It feels different….I think……maybe……I really can’t tell anymore! This was me back in early December, when the area aro...(read more)