Alice… what's the matter?
breast cancer blogger
Author: Alice, What’s The Matter?
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It occurs to me that despite the many challenges that life is throwing at me just recently, I am still really quite lucky. I’ve got through preventative chemo and am starting to feel better, and I’ve even been working since my last chemo (though I pretty much collapsed every evening after work those first few…
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It’s going to be a busy time for me over the next few months, with my NEW BOOBS to be sorted out, and reconstruction operations and double mastectomies and so on . It really makes me chuckle to even think I’m getting fake boobs. I remember an evening in a place called the Sizzling Wok…
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Dear Alice, It’s time to say thanks and to make plans. 2012 was the year you learned to kick some cancer arse, and you did it yourself. I know it’s been so, so hard to keep going with the effects of the treatment to endure, heartbreaks and heartaches and the disruption of not being able…
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I can’t tell you the happiness involved in finding that food and drink tastes normal again! I feel very sympathetic towards old folks that have lost their sense of smell and can no longer enjoy their food. Being able to enjoy the flavours and smells of food and talk about food and drink is an…
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I’m trying to stop being confused. I need to find some zen goodness and direction. I’ve always wanted to live life reaching out to other people and finding ways to gain common ground, to help people, to connect. I’ve been advised many times to stop expecting to understand anyone except myself. People are unpredictable. People let…
Alice... what's the matter? 