Since there was no support group for women with secondary disease when I was diagnosed seven years ago, I started a blog to chart the ups and downs of it all. . It won an Arts Council Award in 2009,
You can read it at www.topicofcancer.com Please visit it and share your experiences: - mine have been bad and good, the good probably outdoing the bad in the long term. There have been funny times (Mr Daz the Gynaecologist) and anguished times: My daughter was ten when I was first diagnosed, and since I'm a lone parent, I was terrified at the prospect of Social Services coming to take her away. They didn't and I didn't die.
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