DOCUMENTING SOME OF THE MOMENTS THROUGH A STAGE 4 CANCER DIAGNOSIS AND LIFE BEYOND IT

I'm not sure what this page is going to be, but I do know that writing has been really helpful in working through some of my thoughts over the last few weeks.

Maybe some of it will be of interest, but hopefully it's a record of these moments, possibly some humour thrown in, but most importantly a series of love letters to my girl.

I'm still here, and I'll always be hers.

Wake Up, Maggie, I think I got something to say to you

And it’s a resounding Thank You. For those that don’t know, Maggie’s is a charity that provide free support to anyone with cancer, and their families. They aim to help people take back control when cancer turns life upside down. For us, that support has been varied and invaluable. There

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Christmas Isn’t Cancelled (Yet)

So mid-August saw my next scan. The scan-xiety wasn’t too bad, this time. It was still there, but didn’t take over my life like it had previously. I think my expectations had lowered after the June results and so I wasn’t holding out huge amounts of hope this time. This

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Beach Days and Bone Mets

It’s been some time since I wrote an update or posted on ‘Still Here, Always Hers’. Since I last updated at the end of May, life has been life-ing – happiness interspersed with cancer, chemotherapy and side effects. There’s been a conscious effort to live, to make memories, to find

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A Favourable Response. Or is it?

The wait for this scan has felt long. I was first scanned back in January when we were trying to work out the cause of my back pain. One nuclear bone scan done and several tumours on my spine found, I was rushed back in for several other scans to

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My Desert Island Discs

One of the suggestions I had when I shared my last post was to write about my Desert Island Discs – the eight songs that I’d take with me to a desert island if I was ever cast away. So this is a different kind of post – one, maybe,

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The Handover

Something I’ve known about myself for a long time is that I like to be in control. I like certainty. There’s no room for grey in my world. Those of you that know me, will likely recognise this! That approach generally works ok in normal life, sort of (I appreciate

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