Sitting at the hairdressers I see an ocean of people with huge robes over scant clothes, it is a contradiction and as they leave they all look so perfect, with cared hair and plunging necklines! I do wish retail would realise that some of us can’t wear t-shirts any more, according to the NHS, “in 2012-13, just under 23,200 mastectomies were carried out in England.” (sorry I couldn’t find whole UK figures!!)…
I recently finished the book Tea and Chemo', which I very much enjoyed, and the author, Jackie Buxton, was kind enough to thank me when I tweeted as much. However she talks about being someone always on the go, busy, active, in control (she is better with her alcohol than I am!) and it is like looking in the mirror- is there a cancer type?
As I finished the book I was also struck by what it all did and must continue…
With Victoria Wood having been such an inspiration for me and another example of someone who has gone too soon, as I come down to earth from my second holiday of a lifetime I am forced to think about the bucket list…
Having been given the fatal diagnosis and survived I find myself, and others, wondering what to do about it! Never a fan of doing things just to tick them off, I enjoy the routine of my job, the…
This week the sideline project work I have been doing for Macmillan became rolled into a formal permanent job, that I had built but had now to apply for.
I have been terrified at the thought of not getting my own job. I had to be interviewed. How would I tell the suppliers I have worked so hard to build positive and personal relationships with if I wasn’t the right person to continue?
At the same time I was being…
I am often talking about life and the language of cancer, and laughter, so here is a stab at a well known song… Because “when you know the notes to sing, you can sing most anything?”
Apologies to Songwriters R. RODGERS and O. HAMMERSTEIN
Let's start at the very beginning,
A very good place to start?
When you read you begin with A B C,
When you're sick you begin with,
"Oh not me", "oh not…
