End of the year 2023
Being Founder of two organizations I split my time between working with both. The work I do supports breast cancer patients and is complimentary for both organizations. 2023 has been another very busy year with continued the never-ending work to address urgency and improvements for all breast cancer patients, and the focus on secondary/metastatic [...]
Pinktober – it will make you green
And here we are again... October - time for 'awareness' and everything in the town to be painted pink - #pinktober as it's called on twitter.
I hate it.
I've never been [...]
Summer Holidays
It's hard having chemotherapy anytime but I'm feeling it harder this summer. The many hospital appointments and feeling ill as well as finding time to fit a holiday in. I [...]
Manchester to Blackpool bike ride July 2014
Well the day had arrived and we were up at 6.30am to be picked up at 7am by friends. We had packed a bag of spare clothes, food, energy bars and drinks. It had been raining [...]
Sex and the City… “Chemo at The Christie”
So here is a little addition to Jo’s blog from her chemo buddy on session #4.. I thought I would share my thoughts on happenings from someone on the outside looking in..... [...]
Chemo 2 and 3
Chemo number 2 and I was booked in for 9.30am. We dropped the children off at my friend Anna's as they were on holiday for Easter. We got there just before 9am as I needed [...]
Hair today gone tomorrow…
Like most women my hair was me, I loved having a nice haircut, pre cancer days ie 7 years ago, people would say 'ooo you have lovely hair'. My sister and niece are both [...]
I would drink poison if it made me better…
I had posted my last blog and was eagerly ready to start the next stage of the story from 7 years ago in January 2014 but things didn't work out as planned.
My phone beeped [...]
Christmas – a time to remember
I've got to admit that I'm a bit of a bah humbug when it ones to the C word. The C word should only pass our lips AFTER 5th November!! (I do rant about this quite a lot). I [...]
NHS failings
Last week we posted a blog concerning the next phase of Inspections to happen to NHS Hospitals. The CGC announced that the long awaited NHS improvements are to be made. Jo [...]
I had Breast Cancer for Gods sake!
After my breast cancer diagnosis and waiting for the surgery it was an awful, awful time... A restless, sleepless time. We tried to continue on as normal with our 2 children. [...]
