Not literally slaps & tickles…it’s an analogy….I am not really a “slap” kind of person unless we are talking the Slip, Slap,Slop Australian sun motto!…and as for tickles…well I love tickling my Little People…but I shriek like a baby if … Read the rest

Puns intended….the surgery was another Colon procedure & as my beloved 9 year old announced in the playground this afternoon, I am unable to go running this week because I had a “camera shoved up my bottom.”
The wonderful thing … Read the rest

I am a mix of emotions today…and it’s not all about me!
As you know on Saturday my son broke his arm….and had a temporary cast put on…& we were to return to Gloucester Royal Hospital to attend fracture clinic … Read the rest

So when you enter the world of “Cancer”…and by that I mean really enter…not just sit there & think oh “F*^$k” I have Cancer, you kind of start to do this weird kind of sympathising.
See, when you get diagnosed … Read the rest

It’s been a long, long time since we had a holiday…a proper “let your hair down / feel no stress” type of holiday….
Since I was diagnosed with Melanoma almost 23 months ago we haven’t really thought about “holidays”….because I … Read the rest

I have just had my 6 monthly skin check with The Surgeon, aka, Mr Oliver Cassell.
The usual routine beforehand…the pattern that I once thought was unique to me…but have since discovered is replicated in one form or another by … Read the rest

Almost 2 months ago now I met The Prof & he casually mentioned would I like to be involved in a panel that looked into clinical trials at Oxford…..
…obviously I leapt at the chance…..yet what with a work/life juggle … Read the rest

Right at the start of my rollercoaster I hit the Internet like a fiend….I scoured every website desperate for help….anything that would give me guidance on how to make right on the Melanoma monster.
There is more than enough evidence … Read the rest

It’s been a while….
I know I never said I “would” write a blog update every couple of weeks or even every week…but it just happened…and then Christmas came and went….and I have been busy with a new job…and I … Read the rest

You may well live in a closet…I would hope not because that would be somewhat worrying…not to mention dark… There was a programme on the Beeb last night all about the recent advances in Cancer treatments we don’t know about.… Read the rest