One Life Live It

  • Every Twinge……

    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...
  • Breast Cancer Women's Association, Malaysia

    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 ...
  • Is that a lump?

    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...
  • Never ending story

    This week I have my 5th Zometa, that's the stuff they pump into me to keep my bones strong and, we hope, the cancer at bay.  The treatment itself is simple and straightforward and I don't usually have any side effects However, in the past few ...
  • Check ups, infusions and dodgy veins

    It's that time of year again, seems like no time since my last mammogram and I am back with the consultant poking and prodding me and declaring “he's seen a lot worse” with regards to my breast lymphoedema! Then the mammogram, which some ...