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• One Life Live It

  Sadly not a LandRover road trip, but my journey through breast cancer

  Irishgirl16 2 hours ago
• Silly

  Bbbb 4 hours ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 21 hours ago
• Wittering away...

  Rowan8a3264 22 hours ago
• One Step At A Time

  Phild26 1 day ago
• Speaking to an empty room

  RedTree26 1 day ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Beesuit 1 day ago
• Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer

  Lemsip 3 days ago
• My mum 86yrs

  Julie17 4 days ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 7 days ago

Latest blog posts

• Shaka For Life

  Two Breasts. One Breast. None.

  They tried to make me go to radiotherapy. I said no! No! No! In the weeks following my bilateral breast surgery, I waited to find out the verdict. Had the surgery managed to remove all of the cancer? Was there any spread to my lymph nodes? Had it spr...

  Shaka4Lyfe over 2 years ago
• Walt’s widow

  Day 7 of my husbands passing

  How do I start? well today is the first day I have been able to think  about writing anything down last Sunday 30 th June was the day my husband of 40 yrs died, he had been diagnosed 4 mths ogo with terminal lung cancer, the worst kind,most aggr...

  Jayneydee57 over 2 years ago
• Chubby Bladder Cancer Warrior 51M

  The last month - a bit of background

  So I'm a 51 year old male from the UK, overweight but generally well.  Yes High Blood pressure and Type 2 diabetes, but normally no aches and pains etc. During April and May I noticed a reduction in my urine flow, needing to pee more urgentl...

  JMo51Male over 2 years ago
• A trip with triple negative breast cancer

  parkrun #250

  In the time before breast cancer, I was a keen runner. Never fast, I had probably started too late in life for that, but it was something that gave me a lot of head space. I had been able to complete events such as the ten mile Great South Run, and r...

  Coddfish over 2 years ago
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  One Life Live It

  The Annual Trip to the Hospital

  I always face into my annual check up and mammogram with a level of trepidation and a fair few “what ifs…..” on the few days beforehand.  Normally I am able to compartmentalise my thoughts of recurrence risk, but as the check ...

  Irishgirl16 over 2 years ago
• Prostate Cancer Recurrence - Triple Therapy

  Day 2 After First Chemo

  First things first. I obtained a print of my pre-chemo assessment blood test results. My referral PSA from January 24 was 2.07, having risen from 0.57 in January two years previously. I don't know what it was immediately before current treatment star...

  excavator over 2 years ago
• Peter's Blog

  March to July 2024 Scan Results

  In this blog entry I have broken things down a little bit, at the top I have a month by month breakdown of things, then at the end little sub headings “fatigue” and “random rant”. So as always, grab a tea (or a pillow if you r...

  HawkeyeBrown over 2 years ago
• It Cannot Get Any Worse

  04/07/24

  In my late teens my mum was diagnosed with CLL and as i was sitting in the back of the car eating a cheeseburger with tears rolling down my face - i thought “this couldn’t get any worse” but it did In my early 20s my mum was diagno...

  brokenrose24 over 2 years ago
• Dignity Pants and other misnomers

  London Calling!

  I am now well and truly in the clutches of a London cardiac team. I have described how what felt like imminent major cancer surgery was cancelled by the anaesthetist’s concern that my heart may not cope with the 15-hour operation. After several...

  Dignahtee over 2 years ago
• My Journey on Paclitaxel

  4th July completion of 7th Radiotherapy treatment

  Only 2 more sessions to go!!!!!!! I have been fairly good with the last few radiotherapy sessions. I started taking 1 Benadryl antihistamine in the morning before my session, and made sure I didn't have any creams at all on my boobie beforehand. ...

  Alison218 over 2 years ago