16/10/2025
Six Years on ā Stronger, wiser and eternally grateful!
As a breast cancer survivor, I know only too well what a rollercoaster this journey can be.
That moment when you receive the confirmation - you have IT ā your heart stops beating, and your mind goes into freefall. The uncontrollable shaking that feels like it will never stop⦠trying to take in the information theyāre giving you, but missing most of it because, in truth, youāre no longer in the room.
That journey home from the consultant - life has completely changed in the space of a conversation. You were fine this morning, everything was normal⦠and now this.
How do you tell everyone?
How will they react?
How do you hold it together for them when inside, youāre falling apart?
How will you fit in all the appointments, the surgery, the treatment, when life already feels so full?
Who will care for your family if you canāt?
And how on earth do you keep showing up as your usual, bubbly, motivated self?
Will life - will I - ever be the same again?
I remember those first 30 minutes after my diagnosis like it was yesterday.
Yet here I am, six years on - fit, healthy, strong, and happy.
Life threw me this curveball while my husband was critically ill, but I survived. I got through it. Some might even say I ābreezed it,ā but only I know the truth - what it took, what it cost, and what I had to find within myself to cope.
If this is you, or someone you know is facing this awful, frightening journey - please reach out. Let me help you navigate the highs and lows, the bumps in the road, and the waves of emotion that come with breast cancer or any other critical illness.
You donāt have to go through it alone, Iām right here!