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• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

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• My Mengioma Brain Tumour Story

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• My BCG Therapy

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Latest blog posts

• Just started EC Chemo

  Tuesday 16th January day 13

  Well they say that 13 is unlucky for some, well I was awake at about 4.30 again, I tried reading my kindle without disturbing the wart hog that was laying next to me, I was totally unsuccessful as I accidentally knocked a tin of mints over that was s...

  Alison218 over 2 years ago
• Just started EC Chemo

  Monday 15th January day 12

  I decided to have a nice shower and wash my hair lastnight, before I went to bed. What a struggle that is! It takes both my husbands hands and my one hand to get the Limbo on my arm. Then I am walking around the room making robot sounds lifting my ar...

  Alison218 over 2 years ago
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  Community News

  Being kind to yourself on Blue Monday

  Come and tell us what you do to improve your mood. All the tips shared may help someone be a little kinder to themselves today or help turn someone’s day around.

  Megan- Online Community Team over 2 years ago
• Triple positive breast cancer stage 1 grade 2

  15th January 2024 first round of taxol - allergic reaction

  Fast forward now to last Wednesday my first round of paclitaxel and herceptin. My regime is Paclitaxel every week for 12 weeks and herceptin every 3 weeks for a year then radiotherapy. I arrive at the chemotherapy suite feeling very anxious, it&rsquo...

  Keeping smiling over 2 years ago
• Triple positive breast cancer stage 1 grade 2

  14th January 2024

  I was diagnosed with my breast cancer on 27th September 2023 after having my very first routine mammogram at the end of August 2023. I was recalled and asked to come back for further investigations which was a 3D mammogram followed by 3 biopsies as t...

  Keeping smiling over 2 years ago
• Just started EC Chemo

  Sunday 14th January day 11

  Happy Sunday everyone. I hope you're all doing well.  I had a fairly good sleep lastnight, I'm not sure if it's just me but I have some very strange dreams since all this chemo journey started, lastnights dream was to do with losing my hair, whi...

  Alison218 over 2 years ago
• Just started EC Chemo

  Saturday 13th Jan day 10

  I started off before the birds again, this is getting be a bind. We even stayed up later lastnight, I made it till 1am before turning over and falling to sleep, and that's with no naps or anything since getting up yesterday morning. I'm like every re...

  Alison218 over 2 years ago
• Just started EC Chemo

  Friday 12 Jan Day 9 post first EC Last Filgrastim this session

  Well I have started this a bit earlier today, as woke early and decided to get up.  Hubby came home yesterday, and we went to go for a walk, but managed about 400 yards in total. He's done something to his knee and if he trys to walk on it i...

  Alison218 over 2 years ago
• Just started EC Chemo

  Thursday 11th January day 8 after first EC

  Well I had a really good night, only waking to the call of nature but I managed to get back off to sleep quite easily I eventually woke up at about six and just laid waiting for my husband to make me a cup of tea. Which he did around 7.30am. I notice...

  Alison218 over 2 years ago
• Dignity Pants and other misnomers

  Disassociation, a blessing?

    Definition; The action of separating or disconnecting. A quick google tells me that there is a psychological condition called ‘Dissociation Disorder’. I am not going to delve into complex conditions about which I have no knowledge....

  Dignahtee over 2 years ago