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 ...
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...
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 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...
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 ...
