End of the year 2023

Being Founder of two organizations I split my time between working with both.  The work I do supports breast cancer patients and is complimentary for both organizations. 2023 has been another very busy year with continued the never-ending work to address urgency and improvements for all breast cancer patients, and the focus on secondary/metastatic [...]

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Pinktober – it will make you green

And here we are again... October - time for 'awareness' and everything in the town to be painted pink - #pinktober as it's called on twitter. I hate it. I've never been [...]

Summer Holidays

It's hard having chemotherapy anytime but I'm feeling it harder this summer. The many hospital appointments and feeling ill as well as finding time to fit a holiday in.  I [...]

Manchester to Blackpool bike ride July 2014

Jo and Jeff
Well the day had arrived and we were up at 6.30am to be picked up at 7am by friends. We had packed a bag of spare clothes, food, energy bars and drinks. It had been raining [...]

Sex and the City… “Chemo at The Christie”

So here is a little addition to Jo’s blog from her chemo buddy on session #4.. I thought I would share my thoughts on happenings from someone on the outside looking in..... [...]

Chemo 2 and 3

Chemo number 2 and I was booked in for 9.30am. We dropped the children off at my friend Anna's as they were on holiday for Easter.  We got there just before 9am as I needed [...]

Hair today gone tomorrow…

Like most women my hair was me, I loved having a nice haircut, pre cancer days ie 7 years ago, people would say 'ooo you have lovely hair'. My sister and niece are both [...]

I would drink poison if it made me better…

I had posted my last blog and was eagerly ready to start the next stage of the story from 7 years ago in January 2014 but things didn't work out as planned. My phone beeped [...]

Christmas – a time to remember

Christmas tree
I've got to admit that I'm a bit of a bah humbug when it ones to the C word. The C word should only pass our lips AFTER 5th November!! (I do rant about this quite a lot). I [...]

NHS failings

Last week we posted a blog concerning the next phase of Inspections to happen to NHS Hospitals. The CGC announced that the long awaited NHS improvements are to be made. Jo [...]

I had Breast Cancer for Gods sake!

After my breast cancer diagnosis and waiting for the surgery it was an awful, awful time... A restless, sleepless time. We tried to continue on as normal with our 2 children. [...]
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