Cancer and COVID

There is never a good time in anyone’s life to get cancer. I’m only now just able to say the word out loud properly. It’s such a soft, rounded, plump word, yet what it portrays is a vile, spiky, life-taking threat. I’m super sensitive to the...

Getting on with it……

The next morning…….. Lifting my eye mask, ear plugs pulled out, I scan my body then my mind. Did I sleep well? I don’t know. I can’t remember but I know I feel OK. Both body and mind appear aligned to one another. Both feel well and I let out a...

Netflix to Nausea in 1.3 seconds

It happened that quick. Netflix one second – fast sprint to the bathroom the next. 11/06/20 ~ 21:31 ~ “I officially declare the side effects open” NOW HERE FOLLOWS A HEALTH WARNING TO ALL OF YOU READING THIS BEFORE YOU CARRY ON READING THIS YOU...

Chemo in -16:45 10/06/20

I was fine until I had to leave my husband at the door and walk in myself. It struck me how lonely I felt without him. He’s been by my side since diagnosis and now he cannot be with me now. Covid. I’m welling up walking toward the chemo unit. It’s so...

Chemo round#1 07:46 10/06/20

I feel OK. I am awake. I drop my eye mask and give my sight a few minute to adjust, pull out my ear plugs (husband snores) and wait for the fear and anxiety to awaken too and come and say hello. They don’t. Why are they ignoring me? Come on you pair of bastards,...