I wanted to write a bit more on how I feel about people in the public eye including celebrities and King Charles (just recently) being diagnosed with cancer after going through it myself. In short—-quite mixed feelings.
In a previous post from last year “Failing at this Cancer Thing” and still in the midst of treatment, I wrote
Read MoreSo no one really prepared me for the part where the side effects of cancer treatment is early menopause. Chemotherapy chemically puts your ovaries basically to sleep and hormone therapy tends to keep them there.
Looking back at my life in the years before cancer and understanding more about all this now I realise I have been in peri-menopause for like the last 5 years or so. I always thought my anxiety, struggle to concentrate and thinning hair was just me not being able to cope but it was likely my hormones going into decline.
Read MoreI had my third and last haircut at Guys Hospital with Cancer Hair Care Charity on 1 Feb. These sessions at the hospital have been a GODSEND as its just me and the lady in a private corner on the chemo floor. I get a chance to talk about how I’m feeling with my hair journey, she gets a look at my scalp to check hair progression and I get a little trim in the process>>
Read MoreThe more I move further away from Cancer treatment the more I’m trying to learn the lessons this has been trying to teach me and in that finding what may have happened in my life to contribute to this. It will probably come across as blaming myself and I’m fully aware that even nun’s who live perfect lives could get this thing. Its often a part of being human and just having breasts that you end up part of the statistics of getting diagnosed>>
Read MoreThis month I’ve been working a lot more than I have in a long time with gigs. Whilst my bank account is in dire need of help after cancer, trying to adjust to working full weeks has been difficult. I did a 3 day commercial shoot for a bank recently and sometimes gigs will film things that are due out for summer in winter and vice versa. So we were in freezing temps outside all day standing trying to cope. We were able to put on warm things in between takes but often it just made things worse and you could never really get warm>>
Read MoreI don’t think I have written here that I’m starting back up with mistletoe therapy. I did it for 3 months during chemotherapy and then have restarted it after a follow up appointment with the integrated cancer doctor late last year at Royal London Integrated Hospital.
Read MoreYesterday I finally got the scan results for two tests—-my first Mammogram post breast cancer and a bone scan. During treatment I was having terrible pain off/on in my lower back including my brief time on Tamoxifen. It felt like my lower back was crumbling and the pain would wake me up every morning. I raised it with my oncologist and she suggested to get a bone scan to rule out anything serious like the cancer spreading or the start of arthritis>>
Read MoreBoy was I glad to see the end of 2023. Its bizarre how so much heartache and moments of joy can be crammed into 365 days. Obviously last year was consumed by Cancer and just existing. But there were some pretty joyful moments too >>
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