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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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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 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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The theme for this world cancer day is united by unique. Adrenal cancer is so unique that it’s not even given a mention in cancer circles. It’s rare 1 in a million people worldwide will be diagnosed annually. I have no interest in being unique, I just want to exist. I have seen people posting…
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Another new year is upon us… 2025! Its also exactly a year ago since I wrote last years new year post. My plan way back in January 2024 was to reflect on the goals I had set myself to see how many I had achieved. 2024 didn’t go the way I had ever imagined but…
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So it’s (just over) halfway through the year. It’s been quite a long couple of days, with a trip up to London for a scan, and back again. in fact as I write this i am waiting for my scan and I am radioactive ☢️ Being blind as usual added a little extra complication to…
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So now I am six months through chemo, a quarter of the way, it has been hard but I have got here somehow. Before I started taking Mitotane I met with a doctor and nurse to discuss taking it, and so if I chose to do so I could give my consent. My only experience…
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So I made it! I talked in a recent blog post about there being an event that I wanted to attend, and that I was worried I wouldn’t be able to make it if I wasn’t feeling well, and I made it! So let me tell you about last weekend. I finally got to meet…
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May, has been and gone now. It was NF awareness month and I fully intended on writing a whole post about living with NF1 and being informative and hopefully educate some people. But it hasn’t worked out that way. I’ve only written when I’ve been well enough, and when I’m well enough I usually want…
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It’s a day to celebrate nurses and all the work they do. Let me tell you that’s a lot!!! I’ve spent a lot of time in hospital, over the past 12 years or so and having a good Nurse makes such a huge difference to your time in hospital. So from myself, and every other…
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