I mentioned in my last post that I hadn’t been able to have my scans. That’s not unique to me. Even though my main reasoning is primarily due to being stuck on the opposite side of the world, people who don’t have that barrier are also falling through the gaps. I read in The Lancet…
Category: Thoughts
Forced extended holidays…
I don’t really want to talk about the beer flu because it’s not my thing and I have no jurisdiction. But I will just point out that all you people who haven’t had cancer are getting a bit of an idea now what it’s like to not be able to go to work and to…
Cancerversaries
Anniversaries. I’ve never been very good at them. Birthdays, yes. I love birthdays. But anniversaries of things, less-so (I don’t make a very good partner, for example). I just live too much in the now and don’t spend time dwelling on the past. Though I must say that every year I smile to myself when…
The Lucy Effect
Through the whole cancer thing, we cling to the idea of options. As long as there are options, it’ll be fine. Things don’t necessarily go according to plan, which is something that is terrifying at the time because no one explains to you at the beginning that it’s common, and usually that’s fine, there are…
Hello all!!!!
Hello new friends, old friends and everyone in between!!! I woke up this morning to a message from my friend Liz saying that I was in the news again! Oh hi, it me! It goes a little something like this: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6219319/Womans-face-rebuilt-using-shoulder-bone-muscle.html Apart from giving me slight cancer fraud by initially saying my chemo was only…
‘Life is full of uncertainty…’ And other life lessons in places you least expect them
I manage client correspondence at work. Recently our generic email address has been getting some odd spam. People wanting to improve SEO for our website, wanting to sell weight-loss pills, viagra… the random usual things like that (I’m not sure we’ve actually had any of those last two but hey, creative license, it’s my blog)….
Happy 70th birthday NHS
It is the 70th birthday of the NHS. Where to start? I suppose with something that’s obviously close to me. Looking at cancer alone – 50% of people get cancer. That means you, and your mum. Or your partner and your dad. Or your sister and your best friend. I know of people in the…
Friday thoughts…
‘Imagining what might happen if one’s circumstances were different was the only sure route to madness’ – Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow I read this today and it really put into words something that I had been thinking about for some time. Where do we get thinking ‘what if this never happened’? I know…
A note to you all
To all my sarcoma friends who have found their way here, it seriously means so much that you’re reading. You’re all fantastic and inspiring and even if the most we’ve done is smiled and said hi as we’ve passed in the corridor, you’re my family and we’re in this together! I think the world of…
Another of those reflective moments
It is always useful to remember in life that there is always someone worse off than you. Always someone who has it worse. Not in an ‘I’m glad there’s someone suffering worse than me’ kind of way. I mean I don’t want anyone to suffer. Especially not from anything really bad. It’s hard to hear…
The Cancer Chronicles 