Pick yourself up.... Dust yourself off.... And go again

How things have changed. There are not many people who can say they leave  the house and as well as checking they’ve got their purse and keys check they have their boob in too! I’ve had to turn the car around once already and go back to retrieve it, it makes me realise how much I’ve already got used to my new body.  Chemo basically takes every part of your body and batters it as hard as it can. As well as what you would expect, the nausea, the hair loss and the tiredness there’s so much more.Your nose runs constantly because you have no nose hair, your eyes water because they have no eyelashes to protect them, your nails start to fall out because they can’t grow properly, you catch anything and everything and have to go into hospital with any temp over 37.5, you ache, you lose feeling in your hands and feet. And for those of us who are women it sends us into early menopause which means I’m aging overnight, having hot sweats and yes I am bloody grumpy! Then the op and the more ...

I’ve been amazed with the speed of the NHS throughout this experience and they haven’t failed to impress me again. After confirmation that I was having 5 days radiotherapy to finish my treatment, I was in for my planning with the radiotherapy team within 48 hours. For those of you who don’t know, radiotherapy is like the one that’s all mouth and no trousers in the treatment regime. It sounds scary but it’s actually the one that has limited short term side effects, takes minutes and is the one you’d rather take on ahead of chemo and the op. Nevertheless it’s still scary. I’ve always thought that everything I have been through on this journey has been made easier by the fact I have done all of it with either Sam, Becky or both.  I hope by writing my blogs it will help others who have to go through it.  The most important thing I have to tell you about radiotherapy is that I now have 4 tattoos! I can now tick that box on all those Facebook questionnaires, I am truly edgy! Ive got...