I’m not very good at celebrating birthdays. I can vividly remember when I was six, when my mother organised a party and invited every child in the street – and probably from my school class too. And what did I do? I cried and ran upstairs and hid in our bathroom until they’d gone home [...]
Stephanie’s blog talks a lot about positivity and enjoying life after cancer. While stories like hers are uplifting and a joy to read, not every cancer patient is so lucky. Some don’t recover. Hello, my name is Katie, and I survived someone else’s cancer.
The someone in question was Hannah, one of my best friends.
Hannah was [...]
One of the most important aspects involving cancer is the long term side effects that can occur when a patient is misdiagnosed. With many types of cancer, symptoms are increasingly common. Mesothelioma symptoms for example, are common with a high number of other diseases such as lung cancer and pneumonia, while also mimicking typical respiratory [...]