cancer
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What advice would you give to your teenage self? This almost feels like a question my therapist would ask. At 14 I had no idea that I had a genetic condition that predisposed me to tumours, I had no idea that I was developing an optic pathway glioma, a brain tumour that would eventually take…
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Today is World Cancer Day, and for me, it’s a day of reflection. It’s been two years and three months since the surgery that saved my life—and changed it in so many ways. But it’s also more than ten years since I finished chemotherapy for a brain tumour in my teens. I’m still here to…
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What will your life be like in three years? That’s a hard question to answer when I live with a cancer that has about a 50% mortality rate. While it’s true that nobody knows exactly when they will die, it feels like quite a difficult topic for me. It’s something I’m working on. I find,…
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What’s something you believe everyone should know.
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What is your favorite form of physical exercise? The honest answer is that I don’t know anymore. Pre cancer and pre the struggles with my mental health, I used to walk a lot, go to the gym, I loved my aqua aerobics class. I would go almost every day. But surgery, feeling so poorly and…
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Today marks two years since the surgery that changed my life. A lot has happened in those two years. Physically and mentally I’ll never be the same person because that day, the surgery changed me. How could it not. It changed me physically. I’ve never got back to my strength or fitness and mentally it…
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What is your favorite hobby or pastime? I have lots of hobbies. I play ten pin bowling, I play a blind sport called showdown, I like crafting, climbing and researching my special interests and I love writing this blog  But when I’m depressed I lose sight of all my hobbies. This weekend I saw…
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What are you doing this evening? Honestly I wish I could have something inspiring or enlightening to say. I wish I could make the first blog post in months one to get excited about, but truth fully I am doing nothing special. Today I had my blood test, that checks that my cancer markers are…
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I am not watching big brother, but it’s clear that lot of people do. I’ve been noticing something that’s a talking point for many people, and that is Trisha, and her cancer diagnosis. What I’ve seen is many people saying that “all she talks about” is her having cancer. People are saying it in a…
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Three weeks ago, I took Willow to the vets. She was due her annual vaccines, so, on a sunny afternoon, we took the short walk over and waited to be seen. When we were called in, as usual, Willow was a very good girl. But very nervous. Before the vet gave her the vaccines she…
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