Surgery, “Special Achievement Award” from Oldham Sports Awards & ESMO
Surgery In January 2018 I had a follow up appointment with my breast surgeon. This isn’t my original surgeon, I happened to miss 2 appointments possibly for a mammogram (rescheduled them due to one on my daughters birthday and some other issue probably to do with chemo at the time) to which I was told that I couldn’t have another appointment and [...]
Update re previous blog & infographic
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 [...]
If you want something done, well do it yourself…
Secondary Breast Cancer
Data & Statistics
I started to campaign about the lack of data and statistics for secondary breast cancer back at the end of 2015 as [...]
Secondary Breast Cancer Infographic – #SBCinfographic
In 2015 I produced an infographic which I felt was hugely needed for patients understanding the "red flag symptoms" of secondary/metastatic/advanced breast cancer.
The [...]
Lucy and Maggie’s
I attended the opening of the new Maggie's centre which is located at the Royal Oldham hospital. The Oldham Maggie's centre is the 21st building built by the charity in [...]
Grabbing life with both hands
The previous week to surgery on the Wednesday (my surgery was booked for Thursday 11th May) I had a CT scan and on the way home had a call from a nurse at Wythenshawe [...]
The gift that keeps on giving…
It was January since my last update and lots has happened with myself and at abcd towers.
Thankfully February turned out to be a good month with the results from the bone [...]
Pink Ribbon Breast Cancer drugs funding and trials – London
I was in London on the 22nd March 2017, the day that the tragic incident happened on Westminster Bridge. I was actually invited by Gerard Dugdill of the Pink Ribbon Magazine [...]