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…
No longer a #vlog virgin; your call if you want more
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Ten Things I Wish I Had Known When I Was Diagnosed With Breast Cancer
Originally posted on Journeying Beyond Breast Cancer :
I still find it hard to believe that next month it will be over ten years since I was first diagnosed with breast cancer; and even though it’s a decade later, cancer’s chimes still reverberate in my life. When I look back on all that I have learned through…
15 Random Responses
15 Random questions came up from a Google search for something else today and open as ever to chance I thought I’d give them a go and share my answers with you. 1) What do you do to get rid of stress? Get away from the source if I can identify it and try and […]
More Examinations
I’m beginning to think that I’m not cut out for this Exam Invigilator role that I’ve been doing part time just recently. Fondish memories of it when I was talking exams was of someone sat at a desk, potentially on a small stage overlooking all of the young people nervously perched on chairs before them. […]
#Queenhood
If I was ever in any doubt about the power of women together, Constance Hall blew that away last week. My lovely daughter-in-law to be Faye, treated us both to an afternoon with Con and a meet and greet afterwards and it was mind blowing. I don’t think I’ve ever been in a room with […]
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 […]
Acid update
As a child of the 60’s I’m familiar with all the stories of people on acid and the psychedelic effects it had. Never having taken any (and never will) it’s all simply hearsay but I’m glad (I think) to say that the acid I was having infused into me is now stopping. You may recall […]