Titivate - My Breast Cancer Blog

01/02/2026

🎀 Feel them on the 1st! 🎀

This is your monthly reminder to get to know your breasts - and that includes you men too!

Ladies if you still have periods it’s best to check at the end of your period. If you are post menopause then once a month is great so why not

Please also remember to check your scars for any changes, armpits and along your collarbone too! Early detection is key and can truly save lives. 💖

21/01/2026

The scan results are in and you can just call me mable because I am STABLEEEEEE!

Wow, I’ve been to hell and back waiting for these results and it’s taken some time for them to sink in! I am so grateful for my incredible team and for Dr Khan too - they are all simply amazing 💖

Everything (traditional medicine and homeopathic too!) is doing its job to keep the cancer in its place. I will have my next scan in 4 months time but until then a slight reprieve and allow myself time to recharge and restore my mental wellbeing too.

Much love ✌️💖

17/01/2026

This time last year I was recovering from having my ovaries removed and hadn’t yet received the news about the cancer having spread to them. Regardless of that I will ALWAYS take it as a win over cancer and just more battle scars to add. 💖🙏

If you truly believe and want something like I pushed for this surgery then follow it - push, question and research everything 💖

11/01/2026

A whole 2 years to the day since I had my ovaries removed… never did I imagine they would find the cancer had spread to them - and neither did my oncology team!! It’s routine to send removed parts for lab testing and I’ll be forever grateful that the cancer was found in the lab after surgery and take that as a win over cancer!!! However this then confirmed my upgrade to living with Stage 4 Breast Cancer… BUT on we go, it’s all we can do! 💪💖

Surgery day! 💖💪

08/01/2026

Well bloods were all good so that’s my injection done this morning - it’s amazing how a little glass of red wine and dark chocolate can help those pesky neutrophils!

Once again I’m so grateful that Christie’s have these outreach centres which saves me having to trek upto the main site for a simple injection or for bloods.

So, this time (unlike my last injection) I have some quieter days planned to help ward off any side effects so fingers crossed this month it’ll be a breeze/

Much love to you all especially my fellow cancer warriors too 💖

Ps. Still waiting for the scan results.. waiting, waiting and waiting 😬😬😬

07/01/2026

It honestly feels like I was only here last week having bloods done and treatment, but in reality it’s been a whole four weeks and here I am again for bloods in preparation for treatment tomorrow 😩.

The past few weeks have been rough too. I’ve been so poorly with the flu and have only just started to feel like myself again… and now it’s injection time all over again. 😬

The nurse really struggled to get blood out of me today, I think a combination of the cold and having had a canula for the scan last Friday so after a failed attempt she had to use my other arm - which can only be used to take blood out due to not having any lymph nodes! But thankfully the second attempt worked.

I do have a much quieter few days planned after treatment tomorrow (she says 🤣🤦‍♀️), so I’m really hoping that will help me bypass, or at least soften the side effects.

For now, I’m just waiting on the blood test results so I can get the go-ahead for the injection. Fingers crossed 🙏

And still waiting on the ct scan results too 😬😬😬😬😬 waiting, waiting, waiting.. 🙏

02/01/2026

Well it’s that time again.. scan time! A month later than usual as otherwise I would have received my results on Christmas Eve and I didn’t want to tempt fate so my oncology agreed to the extension but have got me in as soon as possible.

I’ve been fully wiped out by this flu over Christmas, nearly 3 weeks it’s taken to even feel anything like human again! A course of antibiotics and a nebuliser from Christie’s and thankfully I’m nearly back fighting fit.

But my record of clear stable scans on my lung may be broken this time if the infection is still present - so am preparing already for the results (I have been since I got the scan date really, as always) and hopefully if anything shows different it will just be the remnants of the infection.

Sometimes the scan and waiting for the results doesn’t affect me but this time it all feels a little heavier - maybe because I’ve been ill, maybe because side it’s fast approaching my cancerversary not only for my primary diagnosis but then for my secondary diagnosis too or maybe it’s just how it is this time, Let’s hope the radiology team get my results through quick smart 🙏

Much love to you all especially my fellow cancer warriors 💖

11/12/2025

Bloods good, treatment done ✅

10/12/2025

It’s that time again already!!

Can’t tell you how much I appreciate the closer to home Christie’s team so I can literally just nip in for my bloods ready for my next treatment injection (tomorrow!)

These guys are just amazing.. I’m feeling good so hopefully the bloods will all be ok and treatment can be carried out as usual..

No scan until January which is by choice after discussion with my oncology team as otherwise I’d be getting the scan results on Christmas Eve.. so after treatment tomorrow there’s nothing cancer related until the new year! 💖🙌

12/11/2025

Sooo thankfully my bloods were ok and my medication was released.

The Denosumab is a monthly injection I have to help strengthen my bones and to help keep the cancer spots that are in them stable!

Again I’m so grateful that I can to the Christie’s outreach centre with the Moyà Cole Hospice which means I can just nip in then carry on with my day.

Let’s hope the side effects are kind to me and I can just carry on as normal 💖

Much love to you all, especially my fellow breast cancer warriors 💖

10/11/2025

Today saw me back at the local Christie outreach - the Moyà Cole Hospice (previously St Anne’s) for my bloods. These centres make it so much easier for treatments and regular bloods so it’s always worth asking your team if there’s somewhere closer to you especially if you have a long journey to your hospital.

Let’s hope my infection markers have reduced after Rosie kindly shared her tonsillitis germs with me; so that my medication can be released ready for Wednesday when it’s injection time once again. 😬

03/11/2025

Love, love, LOVE this.. help us spread the word and share, share, share please 🙏

Be brave, be bold, be beautiful! 💖

Whereas most post-surgery underwear is created with the aim of hiding the loss of your breast, Uno is about embracing asymmetry and falling in love with your body again. It is also about support, healing and feeling wonderful. No more adjusting prosthetics and hiding in baggy t-shirts.