Well, it appears that after quite a few hellish months, I may have actually reached the stage where I am finally starting to feel a lot better and a lot more human. That is huge. I have had lots of people tell me how well I look, despite chemo, and I suspect that this is … More Looking Good and Feeling Better
This week I saw a clinical psychologist attached to the Breast Care Institute, as the past month has taken it’s toll on both myself and my family, and my GP and I both felt I needed a little help. That wasn’t easy to type. Asking for help is not something I, or even most mothers, … More The pressure of Positivity
I have had a lot of thinking time the last 10 days as I recovered from what is hopefully my last bout of the ‘nasty’ chemo. Why did I start this blog? I try not to post anything too negative as my aim was to educate and encourage people to talk about breast cancer, to … More My week as Eeyore
So it has been a big few weeks since my last post. 3rd chemo done. As bad as the last one with fatigue, nausea, dizziness, and oh, not having anything resembling a normal sleeping pattern! But that is ok, at least we know the tumor is shrinking so it is all worth it, but it … More Music to soothe the soul…
I’m back! It has been a big week or so, 2nd round of chemo done. The oncologist changed my ‘brand’ of chemo from AC to FEC which is only given after they have proved my brand of cancer is highly aggressive and therefore worth the cost to the government. I feel I should say thank … More Expecting the Unexpected
It has been 16 days since my first chemo treatment, and enough distance and time have passed for me to write about it as objectively as possible. Was it what I expected? Yes and No. But I have realised that for every negative in this whole process, I seem to almost always be able to … More Chemo, Silver Linings and Laughter
So it has been a little while since I posted, mostly because for once I really wasn’t sure what to say. I have been focusing on being positive, and I still am, but the last 5 days have been quite hard and a little more confronting than I reckoned on. So here goes! My first … More Chemo Round 1…we survived!
So yesterday was a really interesting day on this old cancer journey. I had a ‘clip’ inserted in my breast by a lovely doctor (even if he did ‘have to put his back into it’ to push it in my Boobs of Steel!), so that they can measure how much the mass is shrinking once … More The Gen(i)e in the Family
OK, so in the past month there have been some silver linings. I have deferred my studies until October and I have also been granted a withdrawal from my current research unit with no academic or financial penalty. Yay! What this also means is that, aside from removing the pressure of lectures and essays and … More So many books, so much time!
(So, just to be clear, you don’t have to feel that you must comment on every post I make (unless you really want to), I am mainly blogging for therapy and to clear the eleventy million thoughts in my head but also just in case I manage to spit out some golden words of wisdom … More The long journey begins..
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