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“With hope in our hearts and wings in our heels”. Excuse my ramblings.
I was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer just before Christmas, I am 52 years old and I must admit it came as a complete shock . I started having chemo every 3 weeks and I am now having it every week, I am 9 down and 7 to go, not that I’m counting !!!! In fact, as I write this I am wired up having chemo number 10.
The worse side effect I have experienced is that this whole process has completely effected...
Things have been such a rollercoaster for us over the past year.
It is hard to believe that just over 13 months ago at the beginning of May 2020, Dal was diagnosed with Stage 4 Oesophageal Cancer with secondaries in his lung, liver and lymph nodes, T3N3M1 GOJ.
13 months ago, we learnt that Dal had a terminal illness, that he was not expected to live for more than a year, (and that was with treatment) and that Life as we knew it was Never going to be the same again.
Dal and I spoke with our families...
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