Round up of the lows and highs of 2020…

It's nearly 2021 and I recently wrote about the trauma of what happened this year and posted it on facebook…   It’s been an utter shit year. Covid happened. Diagnosed with a brain met (ie secondary breast cancer in my brain) - targeted radiotherapy for it. Surgery to remove SBC lymph nodes under my left arm all under [...]

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Mary

  19th February 2019
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Mary now has a terminal disease, there are drugs and trials out there in the rest of the world but she can’t access them because she lives in the UK.  Sadly, the system is [...]

ABC4 – Advanced Breast Cancer 4 Lisbon Portugal – October 2017

  3rd November 2018
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In October 2017 it was the ABC4 conference and I haven't posted my blog until now (there's a reason behind this at the end) - this is a conference specifically for metastatic [...]

Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2018

  28th October 2018
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Everyone knows October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  If you don't know you must be living on the moon or maybe you have hibernated for the whole of October.  It's in [...]

ABCD Exercise Retreat to Recovery

  27th June 2018
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"MOTIVATION & EXERCISE THROUGH RECOVERY & BEYOND" Earlier this year I applied to the National Lottery for their "Awards for All" grant after my pilot abcd retreat [...]

ESMO17 – European Society of Medical Oncology 2017 conference in Madrid

  2nd April 2018
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FRIDAY It was an early morning flight to Madrid so I had to get up at 3.30am with taxi pick up at 4am for the 6.30am flight. I've never been to Terminal 3 at Manchester [...]

2017 – it’s been a busy year…

  31st December 2017
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It's been a busy year, lots has happened with ABCD and myself in 2017. With the results from the bone and CT scans and the word “stable” has been used.  I've not been [...]

Update re previous blog & infographic

  6th December 2017
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I thought I’d let you know where I am with everything that’s happened lately. Breast Cancer Care looked into what happened, and after a discussion and review of events I [...]

Letter to your MP about secondary/metastatic/advanced breast cancer

  29th November 2017
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Dear (MP),   I am writing to urge you to act now about metastatic breast cancer (also known as secondary breast cancer). Metastatic breast cancer is cancer that has [...]

Don’t Talk To Me About Charity

  24th November 2017
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A friend asked me a few days ago "you work so hard! Do you find it difficult as you work on breast cancer all the time?" The honest answer is no, I don't really think of it [...]

Secondary Breast Cancer – Data and Statistics

  12th October 2017
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I started to campaign about the lack of data and statistics for secondary breast cancer back at the end of 2015 as I knew of the Breast Cancer Care campaign #notsecondrate.  [...]