A baby and bladder cancer: An honest account of our first year

It's been one whole year since Oscar joined the party after what was a rather exhausting, but empowering 12 hours of labour. I get asked a lot how I'm coping with life as a new mum having cancer treatment so I thought now was an ideal time to do a little round up of our first year.

Overwhelmed

I have talked a lot about my reasons for starting this blog and how much I have found it has helped me over the last two years to really get my head in the right place for dealing with everything that is going on.

Back to school nerves

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It's been back to school nerves for loads of kids over the last couple of weeks and for the first time in a long time I can relate.

Macmillan coffee morning 2019!

This time last year I was gearing up for my Macmillan coffee morning, which we decided to do instead of/for my baby shower.

Too afraid to ask...

'this is not life threatening' .....the four little words you never knew you needed to hear, or were too afraid to ask.

Deciding to dare greatly

The end of May marked the official end to my maternity leave and the time for me to take on some new challenges.

Results Day Nerves

It's hard to say what goes through your head before results day.It definitely plays on your mind in the days and weeks running up to it. You definitely get a bit nervous but I'm never really sure why.

Back down to earth with a bump

And just like that your brought back down to earth with a bang. 

And breath...

Somewhere between my diagnosis and Oscar being born it feels like a took a huge, deep breath in...

Six weeks of Chemo

The point of this post is to give an honest account of my own personal experience with intravescial mitomycin treatment for superficial bladder cancer. Hopefully to provide some reassurance to anyone potentially going through or preparing to go through something similar.

World Cancer Day

Last Monday was world Cancer day and this blog was definitely supposed to go out last week, however having made it to the half way point with chemo I wasn't feeling 100% so I'm posting today instead.

Low Point

New Year, Same Me!

Its been a week since new years eve and I've been away with my family on holiday in Northumberland. Ive had the most amazing week re-grouping and getting ready for 2019.