The beautiful, funny & unsightly truths about raising 3 year old twins & an 8 year old singleton… with one on the way!
A few weeks ago, myself and a team of five other ladies met at Cheltenham racecourse on a hot sunny day and ran a five kilometre muddy obstacle course for Cancer Research UK. We called ourselves the Fast Food Fighters, because we were all unfit and we all eat far too much takeaway food, but we wanted to […]
Tomorrow I am running the Pretty Muddy 5km race for Cancer Research. Sounds easy right? It’s only 5k… *coughs* No. When you are as SERIOUSLY unfit as I am, 5km may as well be a marathon. THIS is what it feels like to run, what it feels like to train, when you are me […]
In 2013, I challenged myself to run the 5k Race For Life, whilst I was battling Cancer. At the time, I hadn’t ran in about ten years. I achieved my run, in forty degree sunshine, in 42 minutes and felt very pleased with that. I also raised over £1300 for Cancer Research UK. In 2014, […]
Race for Life 2013… Well… I DID IT!!! 6 weeks ago I was in hospital having radiotherapy for Thyroid Cancer. This weekend, I ran Race for Life and raised £1298 for Cancer Research UK. Thanks to all of you, my readers and sponsors who believed in me. It was tough. It was 35 degrees of […]
So as promised… Here’s the post where you get to see me in a bra! (That’s if you’ve not already been perving on my pregnant bikini photo) And also hear me talk about wobbly bits and breasts! As you know, I’m running hoping to run (okay I’ll probably walk) Race For Life on July 7th! Exercise […]
Who am I running Race For Life for? A pretty loaded question, coming from me. I could run for Clare – a little girl who died of Leukaemia aged only 5, when I was fighting it myself aged 8. Or a little boy called Daniel, who died of a tumour, shortly after I was diagnosed […]
Now the team at Cosatto have no idea I’m posting this, so I hope it won’t make them cross, but I can’t not. Their support, the smiles they’ve raised and the things they have done these past few weeks, are nothing short of incredible. When I came out of hospital they sent me a fabulous […]
You may have noticed I’ve not posted for a few days. It’s been a long and hectic weekend. On Friday I got my second set of pathology results from my thyroidectomy operation. The Good News No Cancer was found on the left side of my thyroid! The Bad News Due to the size of the […]
Today marks one year ago exactly that this blog was born. I have come to think of my blog as part of the family, so why not celebrate it’s turning one! I began my blog, whilst 30 weeks pregnant with twins, which was aptly the title of my first post! Little did I know that […]
I’m home! I’ve had the rest of my thyroid removed. My parathyroids and my lymph nodes have been left intact. I came round to the same awful post-morphine side effects as last time… Many hours of vomiting, being kept on a drip for fluids and drifting in and out of wakefulness on a heady concoction […]