When I heard the words breast cancer my first thoughts were for my three teenage kids, and how my husband and I were going to tell them. I was devastated, not so much by my diagnosis, but by the legacy that I felt I might be leaving my daughter (I have two sons also). We […]
From the moment I arrived at the Cancer Support Centre I felt welcome. I talked to Elaine, one of the Oncology nurses, and realised that it was the first time since my diagnosis that I didn’t feel alone. I am generally a resilient, positive person, but cancer can be a very isolating illness and there
I always wanted to work in overseas development, so after University I took a course teaching English and travelled to Ghana to experience working abroad. I was there 9 months when I started getting abdominal pains and at first assumed I had eaten something that didn’t agree with me. After a few weeks it got