Let me try and tell you what it’s like. The fear I mean. The fear of Cancer returning, when you’ve already beaten it twice. When it feels like the more battles you win, the more the odds stack against you. Most of the time, I’m optimistic. I make the most of every day that I […]
Raising awareness
Getting THE LETTER: My annual cancer test results
So I recently got THE LETTER. The letter I get every year, telling me the results of my annual Thyroglobulin test. This is the test that tells us if I am still cancer free or if my cancer has returned. They also do TSH and free T4 tests to see if I’m on the right […]
Breastfeeding Complications: Bad Latch, Nipple Thrush & Mastitis
Doctors, midwives and health visitors have an obsession with telling breastfeeding mothers that “if it hurts, then your baby isn’t latched on correctly”. For first time breastfeeders, this is quite often true. This is sometimes even true for mothers who have done it before, but sometimes, there are medical reasons for why breastfeeding hurts. It […]
I ran Pretty Muddy 2015… what’s next?
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 […]
What it feels like to run, when you are SERIOUSLY unfit…
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 […]