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Latest blog posts

• cervical abnormalities

  I am absolutely terrified !

  Long story short but I had some bleeding whilst on my HRT patches.. nothing else.  Every smear I have had has been normal.  I spoke to my doctor who advised stopping the patches immediately and going in for an examination.  The minute I took the patch off the bleeding stopped.  I went to the doctors thinking it must have just been the patches as I have no problems otherwise.  

  I had an examination and was extremely shocked to be told my cervix looks unhealthy and I would be referred for to Gynaecology...

  Former Member over 5 years ago
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  One Life Live It

  A balancing act

  Not the circus type of balancing act unfortunately, but trying to manage the impacts of various drugs in my body on the days around my 3 weekly chemo treatment. First the steroids, 4 tablets with both breakfast and lunch the day before, 4 with breakf...

  Irishgirl16 over 5 years ago
• It's Gone Tits Up

  You're so vain

  I haven’t even started my treatment yet and already I look like a bad drug addict. My veins look ruined. My arms and hands are all a big old bruised mess. Over the last week it’s been constant blood tests, MRI scans, CT scans. Blood out a...

  Former Member over 5 years ago
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  One Life Live It

  It’s been a long 21 days

  It feels like a very long time since cycle 3, not helped by the wettest, coldest, windiest May on record. On a positive note, I had my side effects well under control this time; the weird taste and nausea was shorter and I was definitely less tired, ...

  Irishgirl16 over 5 years ago
• Show Up. Breathe. Trust

  Coming up for air

  Today it feels as if I am coming up for air after what has undoubtedly been the hardest, darkest week of my treatment so far. The physical and mental impact of round three of chemotherapy has been significantly worse than the first two, and has ...

  Former Member over 5 years ago
• Show Up. Breathe. Trust

  And gone...

  This morning we made the final cut. Stroking my back as I sat hunched over the bath, sobbing quietly, Rob gently shaved off the last of my patchy hair, taking it down to the tender scalp. It was a much needed step, and a relief in many ways. Over t...

  Former Member over 5 years ago
• Show Up. Breathe. Trust

  Going, going...so nearly gone

  "Will I lose my hair?" is apparently the most common first question people ask when told they need chemotherapy. It wasn't mine. I automatically assumed that I would and in the grand scheme of gigantic things to get my head around post-diagnosis, fr...

  Former Member over 5 years ago
• Show Up. Breathe. Trust

  Avengers Assemble

  Tomorrow, I start chemotherapy and, quite honestly, I am scared. I have just come off my pre-chemo phone consultation in which a very chirpy specialist nurse revisited the incredibly lengthy catalogue of potential and likely side effects and some of ...

  Former Member over 5 years ago
• Show Up. Breathe. Trust

  Picking my battles

  "Pick your battles wisely" goes the saying. And so, in pursuit of wisdom, I choose not to wage a militaristic campaign against cancer. I am not at war. I am not battling it, or fighting it. The words we use are important in defining how ...

  Former Member over 5 years ago
• Show Up. Breathe. Trust

  Our cancer

  Last week my 16-year-old son asked, with some trepidation, if he could see my mastectomy. I felt overwhelmingly proud of him. For him to ask took courage and emotional maturity - at the same time as being curious I could see that he was also unsure...

  Former Member over 5 years ago