Cancer Treatment During COVID-19

Unfortunately you can't press pause on underlying health conditions. They have very little regard for the current pandemic and although many treatments have been postponed (mine included) there are certain things that simply cannot wait, however much we might like them to be!

A letter from one of the 1.5 million...

     

I'm sure we've all heard in the news about the 1.5 million most vulnerable people set to receive a letter from the government advising them that they are the most at risk from COVID-19 and that they should remain shielded for a minimum of 12 weeks. And I'm sure we've all felt incredibly lucky not to be in that situation.

The state of things....

This blog is and has always been about navigating a new life with cancer. Right now life seems very surreal and scary, but also still whilst living with cancer.

The hardest week....

When I was diagnosed with cancer I didn't know what grade and stage. Doctors do not talk about end game until you are very much there, and even then you have to start the conversation and ask the questions because they will not volunteer that information until they know you are ready/need to hear it. But as a society when we hear the word cancer that is inevitably where our minds immediately go.

New Year 2020

I started this year staring down the barrel of my first round of treatment. I wasn't scared, in fact I was so ready to finally get started with what I hoped would be the beginning of the end, or at least a temporary let up in what had already been over a year of treatment. I let my imagination run away with all the things we would do when we finally got an all clear, all the places we'd go to celebrate, all the champagne we'd drink....

BCG Week Six

BCG Week Five

Well it’s a been a week: Somewhere between keeping up with Christmas orders for my business and getting overly emotional about the election, by Thursday night I well and truly crashed. Thank god we got the telly sorted in our bedroom just in time! 

BCG Week Four

I hesitated about writing this post on week four of BCG because I don’t know if I have anything new to say and I’m a little concerned I’m starting to sound like a broken record...if I’m starting to get sick of myself rabbiting on then I can’t imagine how you guys might feel.

BCG Week Three

Cuddles with Oscar after a day at his grandmas. 

This blog was supposed to be published yesterday but I fell asleep and by the time I woke up Oscar was home so I decided to put it on hold until this morning.

BCG Week Three...or maybe not!

Okay so today was supposed to be my round up of BCG week 3, but considering that did not go ahead as planned this morning it might be a little tricky!

BCG Week Two:

After a little bit of a stressful week last week this Tuesday and BCG treatment number two seemed to roll around a little bit quicker than I would have liked. 

BCG Week One:

When I first found out that the next course of treatment I would be having was BCG I began to do my research pretty much straight away. I knew from conversations with all my doctors that there could potential be a lot more side effects with BCG than there had been with the Mitomicyn and I wanted to be prepared (Knowledge is Power)

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.