Category: mortality

  • It’s interesting how people mark the passing of time with milestones and how we assign more significance to some of those milestones than to others. Ultimately, it’s all about the perspective that someone has at any particular moment in time. That perspective can and will change. Having had so many significant milestones happen recently, I…

  • Times of great stress or new challenges can be accompanied by moments of intense emotion. Such times in your life are when you need to just take a second and take stock. Rather than allow yourself to wallow too much, take action! This month I’ve found myself standing on the spot marvelling at the turns…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • This week, I’ve been mostly worrying unhealthily (and unnecessarily) about cancer. What I did, and what I should not have done perhaps, is go reading blogs of other breast cancer fighters and get immersed in finding out their stories. And look at websites about what happens when cancer recurs. It’s all very scary and upsetting.…