More and more people every year are being diagnosed with cancer, in one form or another. Whether it's lifestyle, environment, diet or any other factors that is causing the increase is very much up for debate, and not a debate I have enough authority to cast my opinion on. But with every new cancer diagnosis, … Continue reading Things I Wish People Knew About Surviving Breast Cancer
If you've recently been diagnosed with breast cancer, you're no doubt feeling a lot of things right now. Here are a few tips for surviving breast cancer treatment
During my cancer-based travels, I've met a lot of people. Doctors, nurses, radiotherapists, other people living with cancer. But none have had as big an impact on me as my Boob Gang girls. There's three of us in Boob Gang. Kate, Izzy and myself. Kate and I decided to be friends after she found out … Continue reading Beauty Tips for Cancer Patients
Self confidence is something I've often grappled with. Like most people these days, I scroll through Instagram, Facebook, the Internet as a whole and I'm subjected to images of photoshopped bodies, made to look smaller, more taut, more toned. I see adverts every second breath telling me how to get glossier hair, I'm subjected to … Continue reading Self Confidence in the Face of Cancer
As you guys have heard many a time before, I am not a particularly big fan of the old health and fitness scenario. I like a good dance (with or without cocktails), I bloody love to swim (you've probably heard that a million times right?), but occasionally I pull on a pair of running shoes and … Continue reading Running Up That Hill
Almost unbelievably, I've found myself facing my last chemo session this afternoon. It feels equally like it's taken an eternity to get here and the last few months have flown. I've said again and again that chemo is the gift that keeps on giving - nausea, fatigue, constipation, infections, hair loss, sore feet, painful skin, … Continue reading Getting Chemotional – Part 2
1) how will I go back to normal life after cancer? 2) what is normal life anyways? 3) what happens if the cancer comes back? 4) can I just run away and go on a really nice holiday, rather than dealing with this? 5) are my eyebrows growing back? 6) what was that pain? 7) … Continue reading 52 Questions I ask myself on a regular basis during cancer treatment
Being diagnosed with cancer is a bit like getting an offer for an exceptionally bizarre new job. "Hello there is that Miss Purkiss? Hi there Alice, look we've considered your application - well, we know you didn't apply - but we've considered your suitability and we'd absolutely love to offer you the role of cancer … Continue reading You’re Hired!
This isn't the post I was intending to write next. I really want this blog to be a helpful resource for people who've learned that they've got cancer and to prove that even though hearing the words "it's cancer" can be devastating, it's still possible to laugh your way through it. And I have laughed … Continue reading Hitting the Wall
Well. It seems like this post has been an awfully long time coming. But on 12th October, I had my very first session of chemotherapy. I've never felt more like I'm being treated for cancer than in this last week. When I got my diagnosis back in July, we were initially planning to do chemotherapt first, … Continue reading Getting Chemotional
