My first Mammogram Post Breast Cancer

So today I had my first Mammogram post breast cancer diagnosis. I wasn’t actually expecting this appointment because I had been told so many different things by different people. I had been told it won’t be until next year by the doctor and then others told me it would be around this time. SO when I got a call out of the blue to come in it took me by surprise >>

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A Year Since Diagnosis: Gratitude + Big Lessons

A year ago today, I was told the news that I had Stage 2, grade 3 IDC Breast Cancer. Part of me was so confident I didn’t have it, I didn’t have James come with me to the appointment because why would I if it wasn’t anything serious? I think looking back in my gut I knew what it was and so did James the minute I found the lump just before a trip to Paris in August >>

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Tamoxifen - Week 1

I feel guilty and bad (which seems to happen to me a lot in this cancer journey) because I feel like its only 5 mg I should be able to handle this. I feel bad because I know what a lot of Stage 4 cancer people would give to have even this option for themselves. I also feel SCARED that if I don’t push through and just put up with this poo that it will increase my risk of this coming back and I do not want that one bit >>

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Physio- The Personal Trainer Editions

I had my first personal training session with her last week (we will be meeting every other week) and she checked how many times I could sit down and get up in a chair in a timed space, my blood oxygen levels and my grip strength. We then did some balance exercises, some leg presses and arm, shoulder and back weights. I pushed myself HARD but not too hard. Was sore the next day but managed to get out for a run the following day so not too bad. Grateful for my overall recovery rate being pretty good so that I can snap back quickly >>

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Nutrition Support after Cancer

Implementing change in nutrition is and will be hard for me. To be honest James and I weren’t eating THAT bad before compared to most people but implementing the change we have done has taken ages. Food is such an emotionally intertwined complex subject especially for myself whose had such a difficult relationship with food. So thus the need for someone to help and hoping that it will help me get my weight down finally after struggling with this my entire life >>

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Pills: Decisions and Delays

So because my breast cancer is sensitive to hormones usually what happens after chemo, radiation and surgery is some sort of endocrine/hormone therapy as a final buffer to help prevent any hormones feeding into a new cancer which you don’t want. There’s no guarantee that this would happen if I took the pills or didn’t take the pills although there’s some evidence with benefit of taking them. No matter what I’ve done along this ‘cancer journey’ there’s no fool proof way of preventing this to come back 100% >>

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Hair: Can't Touch This

So I suddenly had a booking for a couple of days on a TV show for Apple+ this week that I was not expecting at all. It was really nice because I saw several people who I knew which was fab and a couple of people like my gig last week who looked after me. It was also very much appreciated money to hep my independence, bank account and self esteem with my finances which have been quite impacted with this thing >>

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