When I start to receive an increasing number of messages asking how I am and how my treatment is going, I realise it’s time to write another blog post, but this is one I’ve been avoiding writing. I woke up this morning with a Queen song going around in my head, “Inside my heart is breaking, my make-up may be flaking, but my smile still stays on” In my last post I said “The last few weeks have probably been the most challenging ones since starting chemotherapy”, well sadly the day after writing that I found out what could be more challenging than Docetaxel when my mum passed away suddenly. I don’t really want to go into too much about this as, firstly, it’s still very painful, and secondly, it’s not just my personal bereavement but that of my whole family that I need to consider. As this blog is about my personal ‘Cancer journey’ (sorry, cheesy I know but the best way I can describe it), I’m just going to talk about the impact of losing mum in regards to my treatment. I h...
A blog about life during and after breast cancer treatment, dealing with grief and trying to find my new normal.