The Waiting Game

I saw my fantastically beautiful surgeon last Friday for my annual check-up: three years to the day after I had breast surgery. He found a lump in my right breast this time (so far my right ...

Wile E Coyote It

So you remember I had that incident back in March as a result of the Zoladex not agreeing with my postnatal hormones and ended up in hospital for two weeks? Well, I’ve been in therapy as a...

Statistically Speaking…

Tonight I realised, while posting on the Feel Yourself Facebook page, that I am now a statistic. Cancer Research UK has a handy page on their website that allows you to look up statistics fo...

Ferris Bueller Is Right.

I have a date. An actual date. It’s my first. Ever.So he rang me to check I was real and I ended up telling him about the cancer. Not because I wanted to, or because I’m wearing it as a ...

ACT

My physical recovery is still going well. My mental health is taking a bit of a battering. Trying to cope with the effects of the menopause on top of a marriage break up is hard work. Unfort...

Love And Support

I couldn’t sleep at all after the operation. General anaesthetics always make me hyper and hospitals are a constant hive of activity, even in the early hours. I got them to take my cat...