(Original title: The Chamber of Secrets) It’s been a while since I’ve written anything. I’ve been going to a writing class on Wednesdays, and the last session is this week. I’ll be sad when I don’t have it to look forward to anymore, because I’ve really enjoyed learning different tricks to work through writers block and practising writing for solid lengths of time where your fingers aren’t allowed to stop typing (which usually means I end up writing stream of…
Dear Junkee I was sitting in McDonald’s this afternoon in the CBD of Melbourne, I’d just sat down to eat my cheeseburger after wig shopping, and stumbled across a piece that was paid for by Pink Hope Community, written by Karni Maizels (http://junkee.com/makes-happy-id-tell-21-year-old-self-life-breast-cancer/175454). I commend Karni on coming forward and sharing her story to raise awareness for breast cancer. I have breast cancer too. It’s hard, and it sucks. But this article made me cry. I cried because it was…
I have decided to do a short pictorial update instead of a lengthy wordy one, because I had to actually get my hair cut last week, and also I was carrying a lot of stuff in my handbag. Mostly I am procrastinating on writing the proper update. I’ve been busy writing up a 12 minute talk that I’m doing tomorrow at the Peter Mac about the sleep group I attended, and also my speech last week at work about the…
(Original title – Gilderoy Lockhart) Do you know what really grinds my gears? Watching TV shows and movies about cancer, where people have perfectly smooth bald heads because “chemo”, and they keep all of their eyelashes which are coated in layers of mascara and super long and beautiful, and the most perfect eyebrows to frame their faces. It really gives me the shits. They also get away with not being bloated from medication, without looking completely dead in the eyes,…
(Original title: At Flourish and Blotts) I forget how I actually stumbled across the original of this, but I saw it and thought I would list a glossary of cancer terms related to mutant mammaries for everyone to gain a better understanding of medical terminology that I might occasionally use. Acute – rapidly developing, generally short lasting. Not to be confused with “oh, that’s a cute haircut!” Alternative Therapy – all of that dumb shit that people reckon “cures…
(Original title – Through The Trapdoor) Oh my goodness, I never thought this day would come. I don’t have to have chemo anymore, and I am thrilled. The plan was, if the liver spot was shrinking – one more chemo. If it hadn’t, then no more chemo. Today I started my day at 7am with my alarm going off just after I filled in my sleep diary, because that’s a thing I do now. I got dressed, having procrastinated too…