Tag: breast cancer

Watchful waiting continues

Thursday morning saw Alan and I heading off to the Northern Cancer Care Centre at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle, for my appointment at the oncology clinic.
The NCCC is big and bright and clean and spacious. It has a WHSmith and a courtyard and a shop that sells hats. Everyone we met was pleasant and [...]

Reconstruction in the news

I consider myself very lucky not to have needed to have a mastectomy.
All the more so after reading this report.
Somebody, somewhere needs to be very ashamed of themselves.

In The Journal

A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Liz Lamb, journalist at local daily newspaper The Journal. The article came out on Saturday, and a slightly different version is online. If you’re a regular reader, there may not be anything in the piece that you don’t already know about me, [...]