15 years - my story with GIST and Hodgkins

It is Boxing Day 2017 and I have just had another Christmas with my family - I am extremely lucky! The next few days are taken up with seeing friends - I just hope I keep well and don’t pick up any bugs (so difficult at this time of year) and don’t get too tired (also difficult when you are awake at 12:50 in the morning). 

I have always written a diary, even before my diagnosis and I have continued with it over the last 15 years but this blog is different - my paper diaries can be read by my daughter and my husband after I am no longer with them - they will however never read this blog and that means that I do not have to self edit myself something which I have been known to do in my diary and only since I had my diagnosis.

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