Breathe

A blog for people living with secondary cancer

  • July 17, 2025

    My Achey Breaky Heart

    Just as you think it’s safe to go back in the water….I came into A&E today with a chest infection and I’m kept in for a suspected heart attack! Rubbish. I’m fine. On these drugs I am supposed to report anything more than a minor sore throat. Paris and a few social occasions proved a…

  • July 16, 2025

    Paris/Change

    These days have a unique quality to them. In a similar way to the days following diagnosis, but without the crushing sadness, everything glitters. This time round with the possibility of reprieve rather than the urgency of an imminent ending. The lenses of shifting circumstance through which we view the world change our reality. And…

  • July 6, 2025

    Joy/Pain

    Joy/Pain

    Hello. It’s been a while. I’d say sorry but I’ve been busy living. So ‘sorry not sorry’ as the kids say. These past 12 days, since my news that the cancer has gone into remission, have been an extraordinary heady mix of joy and pain. This is life in technicolour, the full spectrum. Trauma and…

  • June 27, 2025

    Aftermath/The 1%

    Aftermath/The 1%

    Wait wait wait! Did I just ‘roll credits’ on this movie? Stop. Keep recording. It’s not over yet! My melodramatic unicorn she loves a big finish but it’s not finished is it? I think I just heard her hit the edge of the pink ocean set with her horn and she seems to be wandering…

  • June 24, 2025

    The Rainbow Unicorn Rides Again!!!

    The Rainbow Unicorn Rides Again!!!

    I’m not quite sure how to tell you this I got the results of my PET scan yesterday and it has taken me a while to stop pinching myself. To check I am fully awake and not dreaming. I have had a Complete Metabolic Response. Never have three little words sounded so sweet. Well maybe…

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