Guest post: Keeping Mum when cancer comes to visit your family

Originally posted on cystaract:
As a tribute to my Mum who sadly passed away three weeks ago, it seems timely to reblog this guest post that she wrote. It’s great to read at the end of the post that she felt it was a privilege to call Steve her son-in-law and he did her proud…

Breast cancer photo diary – Diagnosis, treatment, hair loss and beyond

Originally posted on A Moon transiting through cancer:
Today is the two-year anniversary of the date that I finished chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer. Whilst it’s been a long time in the making, my intention was always to post a photo diary in the hope that it would helps others who have either just been…

Listen up and live

Listening, as we all know, is one of the deepest forms of respect. Listening to each other and genuinely being engaged within that conversation should be a consistent behaviour. However, we’re all guilty of not ‘being there’ listening and absorbing both what is being said and what is not being said; that takes 100% attention […]

Approaching The Approach

Well I’m unlikely to be smiling this happily this afternoon as I walk towards the mammogram machine for my annual check to ensure that nothing is happening that shouldn’t be. I know that this is all part of the process to ensure that life returns to a ‘new normal’ but that doesn’t take away the […]