One Life Live It

  • 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...
  • Hormone Treatment - how long???

    Picked up my prescription today for my hormone treatment, Letrozole. The label on the box says it all really - one to be taken each day, for ten years until Sept 2031. TEN YEARS!!!! In a weird and strange way, I am actually more worried about this th...
  • And back to work

    I took 5 weeks off post surgery, the first time since maternity leave (and that was certainly not a holiday either) that I have had such a long time off and I've just had my first week back and I am absolutely knackered! Alarm clock wakening was ...
  • Dentists

    Why do dentists stick something into your mouth and then immediately ask you a question? Every time….. I had my pre-bisphosphonate dentist check up today.  Apparently the bisphosphonate can do something to the jaw bone that makes some den...