17/05/2026
On this day in 2023, I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer at age 37. There are so many emotions that I experience around this time of year, its overwhelming to process them all and sometimes those emotions are conflicting…
Sadness, grief, anger for all the suffering, trauma & loss I experienced.
Gratitude & happiness for my health, my life & that I’m getting further and further away from it all.
Fear and anxiety at the idea of recurrence or secondary cancers, having to go through it all again, or worse.
This day 3 years ago was the beginning of a year of many surgeries, medical menopause, stress, panic attacks & dark, dark days…
& on the other side of all that, has been a journey of survivorship - working out a whole new life, navigating the side effects of my treatment drug, understanding a whole new version of myself with an entirely different body & an entirely different set of circumstances, plus a huge new trauma to carry with me.
Since then I’ve worked so hard to get my health back, to move my body without pain again, and now, at 40 i am stronger than I have ever been in my life.
I’ve got 2 years of hormone therapy treatment to go & 2 years until I reach that elusive 5 years mark, when we can safely say that I am on the other side of it all & I can’t wait to reach that place.
The thing I feel the most today, is that it’s a beautiful friggin’ day to be ALIVE ❤️
1st 📸: 2026
2nd 📸: post double mastectomy 2023