52. Newly diagnosed? Here are my top 5 tips

Living with cancer is like living with any other chronic disease. It needs to be managed. How do you do that? With great difficulty, time, research, trial and error, testing, monitoring, trying, failing, trying again... It takes over your life, it is now your number one priority and if you do it right, you get …

49. Life can be easy!

It’s peaceful now, this head space I find myself in. The chaos, overwhelm and brain fog have lifted. Rather than coping with what’s going on, I’m now managing my life like a boss. My body feels good, back to how it felt pre-chemo. The side effects have all worn off and I’m a hairy being …

48. Limbo

Limbo. Here again. It’s different this time, calmer. The water isn’t as choppy. Last time I was here, I was on a row boat, far out at sea without oars. It was cloudy, dark and cold. I couldn’t see land and the boat rocked so hard I had to hold on to the sides. It …

22. A year into healing stage 4 cancer – Happy anniversary to me! The 5 most important things I’ve learned this year.

A year ago today I was diagnosed with aggressive triple negative breast cancer. The initial diagnosis was stage three after a biopsy and ultrasound a week previous. I spoke to my sister on the phone the day before and I remember saying I could handle stage one or two but I hoped it wouldn’t be …