19/11/2025
A voice testimonial transcript from my lovely post breast cancer client, it’s only now that I managed to find a way to get this into text to share. I wanted to share this for anyone who may benefit from my treatments that I offer.
🌸 Firstly, I'd like to say thank you for the opportunity to have a massage on 9 April.
I'm really sorry it's taken so long to send this through to you.
Massage has always really interested me because I have always really felt the benefit of having a massage, especially a deep tissue massage but since having my my treatment for breast cancer, I've been more aware that that type of massage is now not suitable for me.
I even trained in sports massage back in 200 2016. Just knowing how much I benefitted from it, I wanted other people to benefit from it.
So massage is something I'm really brought into.
When I found out that you were able to offer a massage that's suitable for patients that have had cancer treatment, I was really interested.
It's about my well-being, mentally and physically as well, is the way I look at it with massage.
So the types of things I struggle with are my feet, can be quite sore.
My treatment, although it was for breast cancer, I had chemotherapy as well and I'm on a hormone blocker and my feet can sometimes feel quite tender to walk on .
My ankles can feel quite stiff, particularly in the morning or if I've sat down for a period of time, or if I sit in such a way that I kind of sit with pressure into my toes and my heels raised on the floor.
So, you know, my ankles can sometimes feel quite achy.
As come my legs occasionally my hips .
A lot of this, I think, is the side effect of the lectrazelle and of the chemotherapy and I've been told, you know, this is something I can probably expect.
And things will ease and there's things that I can do and I'm delighted to feel that massage is one of them.
So before I came to you, on a typical morning, I might walk down the stairs with some trepidation as to how my ankles were going to feel, feel quite tight, sometimes a bit clicky.
I would joke, I need to move to a bungalow .
My legs can sometimes feel quite tight tight in the morning as well.
And they can feel like that in the evening, particularly if I sat down for a few hours in the evening, or if I've been on my feet an awful lot in the day.
But first thing in the morning, everything can feel quite, quite tight, quite tense .
When I, after I'd had the massage, which was fantastic, it felt, it didn't feel, obviously the same as a deep tissue massage, but it didn't feel like an aromotherapy like massage.
It was just a nice in-between feel.
I really felt what you were doing.
I could feel it in a positive way.
You know, it was, I could feel a little bit tender in places, but not in a bad way.
I could feel that things were being loosened up.
That same day, I went home, I did drink water, as you advised.
During that afternoon, though, I actually had two little power naps on the sofa watching TV or I think I might have been doing some crocheting.
I can't remember what I was doing now, but I had two little 15 to 20 minute power naps.
I actually had another one in the evening when I was watching TV in the evening with my husband.
So I did feel very relaxed, did feel quite tired, but in a good way.
The biggest change I noticed, though, was when I woke up on the Thursday morning and I got up and my legs and my ankles felt like they did pre-treatment Probably even better than just pre-treatment.
They felt free.
I had more flexibility, more freedom.
I didn't feel tender, I didn't feel that sense of trepidation.
I went down the stairs.
My ankles were not tight.
They would not saw.
My body just felt freer for the first time in a very long time.
I started my chemotherapy back in February 2024.
I had my surgeries in November 2023 in January 20245.
So it's just been a long time since my body has felt quite so relaxed and quite so free.
And this carried on for like days, feeling on that in the morning.
The following week we went over to Budapest for a short break.
We did lots of walking, walking up hills.
I felt normally tired, not abnormally tired.
We went to a spa, which was amazing, so lots of nice warm water to soothe my muscles as well, which just felt fantastic.
So the massage for me, particularly for my lower body, was really beneficial.
I would definitely say my upper body felt looser, felt more relaxed.
I have suffered with problems with my left shoulder over the years and I used to go and see an ostopath and he would kind of free it up, I would work on it, sometimes have acupuncture.
And I would say even the work that you did on my shoulders, you know, that helped as well.
But my biggest change and the focus that we talked about was in my legs and my feet.
So once you're qualified, I would love to come back.
I could see myself coming back at intervals in my school holidays when I'm not teaching. Because I can enjoy the benefit of that freedom that that massage gives me.
And also knowing that I'm having a massage with somebody that understands the consequences of my cancer treatment and of my surgery and of my hormone blockers, all of the medication that I'm on and how how, you know, sometimes it's better than I have days that are better than others in terms of how I'm physically feeling, but I can see that massage could be something that I could build into my programme of recovery, my programme of freedom and movement and see it as a really positive addition to my self-care.
Thank you so much.
I really appreciate the opportunity that you gave me and I would love to stay in touch.
Let me know how you get on with finishing your qualification .
And as I've met people along the way, I would be happy to pass on your details to them if they've been in the same position as me and would love to still enjoy the benefit of a massage from a physical emotional well-being point of view .
Thank you so much.
I really hope to see you soon.
