One Life Live It

  • Radiotherapy - One Week Later

    It's been a week since the daily trek to the hospital and I'm reflecting on the side effects of radiotherapy. On the plus side, the skin has coped well and isn't red or sore, no fatigue (yet) and I have been working normally, in fact it&#...
  • Have You Had Your Mammogram Yet?

    I work in HR and am quite well known across our organisation as I've been there a long time and have lived and worked in a few countries.  I've been very open about my diagnosis since the start, but decided a few months ago to speak openly at ou...
  • Flexible Bone scans

    Not that my bones are very flexible these days, but I had a great experience today at the hospital, Musgrove in Taunton in case anyone is interested. Daily radiotherapy (6 of 10) was 9am. As luck would have it I was early, they were ready and I ...
  • Daily radiotherapy

    Trekking to the hospital every day, at slightly differing appointment times, avoiding the road closures in the village, reversing down single track lanes past trucks that really shouldn’t be there, squeezing into ridiculously small parking...
  • Painted Nails

    My finger nails seem to have been getting weaker snd not stronger since chemo ended. I patiently, and against everything thst's normal for me, paint them each week or so, but they remained stubbornly bruised and battered but still there. This evening...