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• Warm your teaspoon

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Latest blog posts

• Not this time!

  # 13 Coping / Not Coping

  About 6 weeks after treatment had finished I hit rock bottom. I had thought I would be feeling much better at this stage. In all honesty I think the past few months caught up with me and once the morphine was lifting the truth and weight of what I ha...

  Ronnie95 over 4 years ago
• A booby is a seabird with blue feet

  Ooh, another saroma? Thank you so much, but ...

  My saroma (in the place of my left breast) has now grown to the size of its real twin. Yet I’ve said what I assumed was a final goodbye to my genuine left breast once before surgery, then to two imposters since! Another farewell – the fou...

  Former Member over 4 years ago
• Cancer just messed with the wrong boobs!

  Back to work and Covid

  So my sicknote ran out on the 3rd April. I could've extended it but felt I was delaying the inevitable so I decided to go back to work on the 4th April. It also meant that my pay would go back to full pay (it had been half since February). So my ...

  Jacala over 4 years ago
• Kidney Not

  Hello Oncology - 21st December 2021

  Tuesday 21st December is the important date I meet my oncology team.  I’m desperate to build a good trusting relationship with my consultant.   I have huge expectations for this meeting for obvious reasons.  Add in the waiti...

  Mmum over 4 years ago
• Turning Triple Negative into a Positive

  Waiting is so very hard

  Waiting is so very hard At this stage i spend my days convinced i have cancer everywhere and the age / unfitness niggles i had been feeling was my body being consumed, this really can play with your mind, especially with lack of sleep. After the ini...

  Harrigoose over 4 years ago
• Turning Triple Negative into a Positive

  This is where it began

  This is where it began, I found a lump in my left breat at the beginning of February 22, not a small lump either, i described it to the nurse as around the size of a 50p. Not something you would think you could miss. Now i do check my girls but proba...

  Harrigoose over 4 years ago
• GIST Tumours

  GIST Tumours

  Male 59yrs Live in KZN, SA Newly Diagnosed GIST - Tumours - Maligant - 17th March 2022 Started targetted Theraphy on 24th March 2022 Daily Mivesta 400mg Praying for Shrinkage Would like to connect with GIST patients  around the world

  Former Member over 4 years ago
• A trip with triple negative breast cancer

  An interlude of normality

  On my better days, I realise there is no point wasting today on worrying about what tomorrow will bring. The oncology appointment will get set up and I will hear about it by snail mail letter. Possibly Easter will get in the way too. Even if I move s...

  Coddfish over 4 years ago
• Shrapnel

  I'm afraid it's breast cancer

  Please follow the link to read my post: https://tumblebee00.wordpress.com/2022/04/08/im-afraid-its-breast-cancer/ 

  _tumblebee over 4 years ago
• Shrapnel

  Time and Irrationality

  Please follow the link to read my post: https://tumblebee00.wordpress.com/2022/04/06/time-and-irrationality/

  _tumblebee over 4 years ago