YOUNG BREAST CANCER

  • Amid the chaos - normality!

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    That's literally the type of day I had yesterday.  Yesterday was the first day I got back to driving my car. I had an axillary node clearance and with swelling, fluid retention etc. I found my arm movement very restricted. However, with lots of physio and believe it or not a real old fashioned method of wearing a large tubi-grip around my chest area to compress the area and stop the swelling, I got to a really good…

  • second time lucky!

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    and by that I mean my second attempt to get 5 mins to write before I hear little voices(and big voices) looking for 'Mammy, I need,,,' and 'Mammy I want....' But in saying that they are my reason for being so determined to do this 'cancer thing' with a smile on my face as much as possible and with a positive outlook - there is so much life waiting for me long after I will have waved cancer goodbye.…

  • Thursday,27th June

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Well here goes my first ever blog post......at last.  Its something I have been meaning to get round to doing. Even though life is very busy and hectic right now keeping a record of what life is like right now seems very important.  Its not the year I had planned.  My youngest started school in September and this was meant to be the year I returned to work among many other things.  But fate intervened and a breast cancer…