Post surgery and in serious need of a lift, a distraction, a little get away, Noirin and I took the opportunity to visit an old friend his wife and little girl in Vienna. We were very lucky to have the use of the centrally located apartment of their friend who was currently away. Having done a bit of research before we left, always on the lookout for possible alternative treatments and hope I guess, I also made an appointment for The Kroiss Cancer Centre for…Continue Reading “Oh Vienna…………”
THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT MY LIFE! Those bloody goalposts are on the move again, the surgery didn’t get all the cancer and it wasn’t expected to. It was performed to remove some of the burden from my body and to prevent the tumour from breaking through.Yet the extent of the disease in my chest wall came as a bit of a shock and I suppose I hoped that maybe, just maybe by some miracle things might have been better. I’ve dusted myself off again after…Continue Reading “Goalposts”
Today is World Cancer Day and while prevention and awareness is fantastic it is not enough,we need to focus on finding a cure. Those of us with advanced cancer are the dying elephants in the room who continue to be ignored by the big wigs clapping themselves on the back for the so called increase in survival rates. The fact is the mortality rate for cancer has barely changed in 50 years. In 2012 it is estimated there were 14 million new cancer cases…Continue Reading “World cancer day”
So maybe I have been kidding myself for the last two years thinking I had a handle on this cancer crap. I’m up and out, home Friday out walking 2-4 miles daily since Saturday, juicing, wheat grassing, eating all the right food, sleeping. But I can’t pass a mirror quick enough and I don’t want the bandages to come off, not because of vanity but because of the blatant, mutilated evidence of what this vile disease has done and will continue to do to me….Continue Reading “Too Much”
Hi all, thank you so much for all the love it really means so much. Well that’s the end of my “Feeling a right tit” blog then ! Lol I’m good, in no pain and apparently it all went well. Xx lopsided but relieved Kitty.
I’m sitting here in my sexy green (much more preferable than white) support stockings and a very well-worn hospital gown. I have completed the ensemble with a large fluffy oversized if a little short dressing gown. I am relaxed and slightly sleepy, but fine. My friend has left to go to work and I am alone, but that’s okay. I know I am loved and I am happy for the peace and quiet. Today I lose my right breast. To be honest it barely resembles…Continue Reading “Leave me Breastless (January 2015)”
So I had wanted a child, to be a mother, I’d be a make and do mother, a baking mother, a singing mother, an honest and open mother, a firm but gentle mother a batty and embarrassing mother and the best mother I could be. I left it almost too late but it was still possible until cancer came and danced all over that dream. So I put it to bed and got on with the task at hand, staying alive! I live alone and…Continue Reading “Dog Days”
Love, cherish,respect,enjoy and most of all examine your breasts.On Wednesday I will lose one of mine to hopefully prolong my life. Be vigilant, don’t ignore or delay no matter how small something is or how scared you are.If your gut tells you something is not right and your doctor disagrees find another one, your life could depend on it.Trust yourself, you know your own body. (Oh and cut out dairy products and sugar,adopt a plant based diet and read The China Study, maybe? just for…Continue Reading “Nearly lopsided Kitty”
Christmas in Norway A Christmas cliche maybe, but my christmas ideal, wrapped around me like a cosy blanket. They are not mine and if I wasn’t here I wouldn’t be missed, but how wonderful to know that this exists. The huge rambling, shabby chic wooden house overflowing with well loved antiques and the laughter and conversation of woolly socked extended family. Mellow nooks and huge fires, festive tunes played on the piano, glasses of port and beer chilled in the drifts, mountains of food laid…Continue Reading “HYGGE”
