Blogs

Read stories from Click members as they travel through their breast cancer journey.
Click Blogs are a great way of sharing your thoughts, feelings and progress with other Members and the Breast Care Nurse. This is also a great way to get to know your fellow members and provide them with words of support and advice.
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  • Bullets, Beams, Blowfish, Breast Cancer - On the Squandering of

    Posted February 19, 2013 by LizInDarwin

    [It's a year this week since I finished 'active' cancer treatment. Wanting to reflect on this milestone, the following is what came forth. Warning: it contains spoilers about The Sopranos!]   Leaving my home, job and loved ones on short notice so that my husband could take up a work op...

  • My BIG SHAVE

    Posted January 7, 2013 by katy

    Hi everyone! On Sunday 20 January I will be doing a BIG SHAVE! Yes that's right I'm going to shave all my hair off. I will be just over a week into my chemo and that's when it is due to start falling out so I thought I would give it a helping hand. I have already donated 23cm to the Beautiful Leng...

  • A busy week

    Posted January 2, 2013 by katy

    Well I have had a busy old week.  We had an appointment with medical oncology to discuss the chemo.  I will be doing chemo every three weeks for six sessions.  Three drugs for the first three sessions, then one drug for the second three.  This will start on the 11 January. There ...

  • 36FF

    Posted December 30, 2012 by katy

    Well that's it then.  I have cleared out my knicker drawer and thrown away my bras!  I guess I won't be needed those for a long while yet.  In case I ever forget, I was a 36FF.  I always dreamed of having a breast reduction... I guess you should be careful what you wish for!!&nbs...

  • Donated pony tail

    Posted December 20, 2012 by katy

    Just before I went into hospital for the second time I popped along to the hairdressers and asked them to cut off my pony tail.  I had measured it and I had 23cm of lovely hair which could be donated to the Pantene Beautiful Lengths campaign to make wigs.  Gosh it's made it much easier was...

  • End of Surgery

    Posted December 20, 2012 by katy

    Today has been a good new/bad news type of day.  I am now two weeks post op and headed back up to the hospital for the results of the latest surgery.  I had an axillary clearance (lymph nodes) on the right and a mastectomy and sentinel node biopsy (just one node) on the left.  The ...

  • The joy of loving what you do

    Posted December 17, 2012 by JoBattersby1961

    What if Money Didn't Matter This is a video we should all show our children. Loving what you do brings moments of joy every day.

  • The joy of perseverance

    Posted December 17, 2012 by JoBattersby1961

    This post will appear just as the others have but it is not the same. In itself it is a moment of joy. I am not a technological person. In fact I refer to myself as 'technically challenged'. I'm the person in the office who's regularly on the phone to the Help Desk. When the poor guy came to my off...

  • The joy of email

    Posted December 17, 2012 by JoBattersby1961

    When I was diagnosed with breast cancer I found the need to keep everyone informed one of the hardest things to contemplate. I wanted to keep an internal focus but knew there were people who cared about me who wanted news every time I had another test or some treatment. The thought of having to phon...

  • The joy of finding pyjamas

    Posted December 17, 2012 by JoBattersby1961

    When I was told I would have to go into hospital for breast cancer surgery I realised I didn't own any suitable sleepwear. My 'birthday suit' whilst fine at home was hardly appropriate for hospitaI. I thought about what I would need after my surgery and decided upon pyjamas that had a top which but...