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I honestly will be glad to see the back of 2017, it’s been a terrible year, but I also have to say it could have been far worse.
Since January I have known I was battling something, I knew something was very wrong with me. I found I was always very tried and losing weight but also the fact that I was losing interest in things. Things I normally enjoyed. I had no idea that 6 months later I would have the lose of our horse 
he was a proper cheeky boy and a sod at times but he did have some lovely...
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I have been through a rough year of neo-adjuvant chemo, a right side lumpectomy 46mm with residual island, re-excision, a dose of anxiety and 20 radiation, nearing the end of Herceptin, I thought now I'm done and nearly over the finish line, then would you believe it i get degenerative disc disease which I've got under control, then I ask what is the follow up procedure for my BC when will my first mammogram be? well you would think you would get a straight answer but...
My personal cancer journey started this summer shortly before my sixtieth birthday well away from the horrors of this disease with some very unpleasant and debilitating chest pains one morning when i woke up. To cut to the chase I ended up in A&E for the day having various tests which revealed nothing of significance thankfully. A few days later a call from my GP's surgery invited me to an appointment to discuss the results of my recent hospital admission at which i was told I had high blood pressure...
Well today has been a much better day, it really wouldn’t have taken much for that to happen though. Yesterday was one of those days that I don’t think I could take too many of without completely breaking down.
Last night I spent quite a while writing hubby a letter and I gave it to him this morning, it was a very long letter explaining how I felt, I put everything down in detail, I wrote it when I was very tired, I suppose I began writing it to get things off my mind, with no intention of giving...
This will be my last blog post. I don't fit anymore in the going through it phase. But I am not past it either. I am in the land of the 'living' again. I raced there, I rushed there - I couldn't bear to be in that desperate dark and frightening place that is grief, I ran from it, I fought it. Not sure how healthy or possible that is but that was my way of bearing it. And so I ran at lightening speed not to be there.
I look back on my posts at six weeks, seven weeks and I can see...
Yesterday was a bad day. One of the worst in the last year. I have no idea why, I suppose a perfect storm of lots of little things all gathering together hitting me all at once.
Maybe a couple of years ago I would have coped and just moved on, but yesterday I came to a stop. A great big stop. The help and support of one special friend I made on here on this site got me through the day. I will remember her help and that day forever, and I really do mean that.
I blogged a while ago about being...
Couldn't think of a more appropriate title for today. It's been an odd day! I woke in a good mood, I'd enjoyed a nice weekend and am heading to see my old charges at the end of this week. So feeling pretty good!
Then I texted a few of my friends and they ALL without exception, were down in the dumps! I did my best to listen, offer advice and jolly them along. While working and trying to keep myself in a positive mood!
Then this afternoon I had an accident with an Elephant and decided...
I really, with all my heart and soul, don't want to be here. To ever have had to log in to this MacMillan site, google cancer support or suddenly be facing wig or bandana options when I should be thinking about chicken or turkey for Christmas dinner.
I found a lump in my armpit on 9 November. Christ, it's not small. How could I have missed it before? See, if you normally shower and keep your arm up and taut, nothing to feel. Thankfully I had a bath and was washing with my arm down and...
I am a divorced fifty-six year old with an estranged family, diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia AML in June 2014. Formerly a successful businessman with many years’ specialist knowledge gained in the mobile financial sector. In late 2013 and early 2014 I noticed that I was almost constantly exhausted, but put the problems down to hectic European and African schedule, which often meant I'd work during the week without proper rest or sleep.
Finally unable to function, I collapsed in my GP...
