I haven’t written a blog for a while because I’ve had total writers’ block. I’ve been trying to figure out why. T he title of the blog has been in my head for some time, back to life, back to reality. In fact, that tune is constantly playing in my head, but the process of getting back to reality is not quite as simple as I’d thought and so I suppose I’ve found it hard to sit down and write about that. I don’t want to complain, I do try hard to stay positive, but I’ve found out that it’s actually much harder to do that now I’m finished with treatment than it was when I was in the middle of it all. Everybody told me that this would be the case, my BCN, the people at Maggie’s , friends that had already been through it and pretty much everything you read online, but somehow, I still wasn’t prepared for it. In August I had a lovely holiday with my family, it was just what I needed, although it was still a bit of a reminder that I wasn’t my ‘normal’ self. I was tiring easily, parano...
A blog about life during and after breast cancer treatment, dealing with grief and trying to find my new normal.