In the space of five months, I have been reduced from being a lively 65-year-old wife, mother, grandmother and small business owner to being bed bound, immobile, needing full-time care and struggling for every breath. While my day-to-day symptoms have eased, I now...
For all those living with cancer or the possibility of its return… I’m awaiting the results of my final annual cancer check-up and I sense myself slipping into my mind’s waiting room, the space between ‘got cancer’ and ‘haven’t got cancer’, my earthly purgatory....
We think it's helpful to tell people who are struggling with a life-threatening disease like cancer to ‘keep fighting’. It isn’t. It’s shaming. Let’s stop the military metaphors and get real about what we’re facing. When Health Secretary Sajid Javid tweeted that we...