One Life Live It

  • A little less wise

    Toothache….you know, you try to ignore it, but it niggles away, wakes you in the night and eventually the painkillers don't help and you end up at the dentist. I shouldn't have toothache. I'm on bisphosphonates and I had my dental check up 4 m...
  • Radiotherapy 10 weeks on

    Radiotherapy finished almost 11 weeks ago and my boob is still lumpy, swollen and tender. Occasionally there's a tingling sensation, not painful but certainly some discomfort from time to time. Depending on who you ask, apparently this can go on ...
  • Chemo: the gift that keeps on giving

    I finished chemo in June. Even with my brain fog, I know that’s almost 6 months ago, but the chemo side effects are pretty persistent at hanging around. My nails were fine all the way through chemo, then a few weeks after it ended, my fingernai...
  • Halfway through Phesgo

    Truly it was a surprise today to realise this was cycle 12.  That's 6 chemo plus hormone, followed by 6 Phesgo injections, so I “only” have 6 more to go.  I think I have gotten so used to this routine every 3 weeks I stopped...
  • Holiday, an actual real holiday, somewhere warm!

    Every November our global team meets for a week.It's alway the same week, always my birthday and can be anywhere in the world. Given we haven't actually seen each other as a team for precisely 2 years, the boss decides Florida is the perfect team mee...