A promotion in my cancer career

Vulnerable. Hormones? Something is not right. No feeling in my tongue, roof of my mouth, fingers and toes. I’m OK with that. But mentally I am weak and crawling on my belly trying to find peace with what I am going through. How can you zone out of the white...

Arm bands anyone?

I cannot get on top of life. I feel I am drowning in work and can’t find the arm bands let alone the life jacket. I have so much to do and now the college term has started I’m feeling it stacking up and it feels frightening. Even the sound of a door...

Gratitude

Side effect free day. Messages of support and love from close friends knit be together even more. I’m feeling well. Well. Closer to well than of recent days. I can’t write ‘tip-top’ because I am not. But I feel a damn sight better than...

Breathless – nerve pain – joint pain

I have a rattle in my chest and feel its bellow when I breathe in and out. I noticed it after I’d walked from my bedroom to my kitchen to put washing away. My ribs feel like someone is playing a xylophone on them, and that someone is blindfolded. There’s a...