Titivate - My Breast Cancer Blog (2025)

06/07/2025

Last year I wore my Unobra at the finish, this year I’ve no b***s and no ovaries but have gained an extra roll of fat ha! I’m still here fighting this dreadful disease and I’ll forever wave the flag, raise awareness and fundraise… doing this race for life today with my beautiful Rosie by my side has been absolutely amazing and I will fight, fight and fight some more so that I’ll still be doing this race with her when she’s having to help me round!
To all my fellow cancer warriors - keep on fighting and keep on, keeping on 💖💪

02/07/2025

Well I didn’t think I’d be sat in this chair again however it’s not for more chemo thankfully just for my bloods.

It’s that time already for my monthly appt with my oncologist, since surgery I’ve been back on monthly meetings until the team are happy with my medication.. if you remember my dose on the chemo tablets has been reduced as I was really struggling with sickness.

However today the oncologist has asked me to add in another medication too 😩😩 ..Denosumab is a targeted therapy drug specific for secondary bone cancer. It’s given by injection once every 4 weeks.

The reason why he wants me to have this medication is because of my age and because it’s 18 months since crash banging into medical menopause so the lack of oestrogen production could be affecting my bones.

This medication will not only help keep the secondary bone cancer in my body stable but it will help strengthen my bones too so whilst I am normally massively against medication the reasoning behind this one is sound.

I have to have a full dental assessment before treatment can begin because it is a bisphosphonate treatment which can cause oesto-necrosis of the jaw; however this is an uncommon side effect!

Soooo, wasn’t expecting that at all but hey-ho here we are and I just have to keep reminding myself (as my good pal Jamie always says) prevention is better than cure.

I’ll be having my 3-monthly scan towards the end of July so let’s hope for a hat-trick of stable scans! 💪💖

14/06/2025

The best afternoon.. raising awareness and fundraising for a fellow breast cancer warrior. Two b***s, one b**b, no b***s.. who cares we are all warriors and all beautiful…

Pushed me right out my comfort zone as I’ve put soooo much weight on and I always find it mad it I’m still more worried about my belly and thighs than having no b***s 🤣🤣🤣

Anyway.. in all our glory me and some of my fellow warriors and of course my beautiful Rosie modelling for a life drawing fundraiser… we SMASHED it as always 💖💪

14/06/2025

The best afternoon.. raising awareness and fundraising for a fellow breast cancer warrior. Two b***s, one b**b, no b***s.. who cares we are all warriors and all beautiful…

Pushed me right out my comfort zone as I’ve put soooo much weight on and I always find it mad it I’m still more worried about my belly and thighs than having no b***s 🤣🤣🤣

Anyway.. in all our glory me and some of my fellow warriors and of course my beautiful Rosie modelling for a life drawing fundraiser… we SMASHED it as always 💖💪

14/06/2025

What an amazing afternoon we had modelling our battered and scarred bodies for a group of ladies to raise money for a fellow breast cancer warrior and raise awareness of this disease!

Events like this not only empower us, it helps encourage others to love theirs, no matter what!

Screw you breast cancer, you have tried and failed to ruin us! We are more powerful than you and brave and stronger than ever before! 💖💪

04/06/2025

This is going to be a super fun afternoon, I and a group of fellow warriors will be modelling and showcasing our battles scars… if you’d like to come along then click on the link in the comments to sign up.. it’s £15 per person and all proceeds goes to the amazing breast cancer warrior Lisa Coxon 💖🙏

02/05/2025

The amazing guys from the Bupa Foundation joined myself, Rosie, Hanneke, Ineke and Diane to complete today’s work - absolutely fantastic! THANK YOU so much! 💖

02/05/2025

How AMAZING do the gardens look! A full tidy up, fences and planters repainted, a damaged planter removed ready to make space for a new one and lots of weeds, nettles and brambles removed! A fantastic effort by all! 💖💪

02/05/2025

Today we are tackling the Churchill Unit Garden for its first refresh of the year! Here are the before pictures… let the hardwork commence 💪💖

28/04/2025

Sooo yesterday afternoon was scan time yet again but this time for an MRI on my right arm.

I have been struggling with this arm since about November time with pain inside my elbow area which is swollen/puffy almost all the time..

It’s really difficult to describe the pain but it affects near enough everything - even just straightening my arm out sometimes, simply lifting a cup to drink from hurts too and it causes almost like a shooting pain up and down my arm but the sharp pain ‘inside’ the joint is there constantly.

I’ve had physio with the amazing Karen which helped decide it’s not mechanical, muscular or bone as I have full movement range etc, I have my nighttime compression bandage too, so now it’s time to scan to see if that shows anything.

Ultimately, this could be nerve damage from my first mastectomy and lymph node removal. That is always a risk with the lymph node removal just because they are connected to so many different things and the technique in which they are removed too and if it is then that’s totally fine it’ll just be good to get an answer as to what is causing the pain and to ensure it’s non-cancerous too!

This scan was an MRI one which provides detailed images of soft tissues, bones and nerves, allowing for a more precise evaluation of injuries or conditions like nerve compression, nerve damage, arthritis or even tumors.

So that’s both scans completed now and its just a waiting game for both sets of results which hopefully they’ll be reported and discussed and I’ll get them in clinic on the 7th May with my new treatment plan too. 💖💪

23/04/2025

Hi folks.. I’ve been a bit quiet on here recently as I was sooooooo poorly with my new chemo tablets, so poorly I’ve ended up having to stop them completely.

If you remember I had stopped taking them to prepare my body for surgery to then restart them once I was signed off from the surgical team. However 10 days in after starting them I have never felt as ill in my life, I literally could not keep my eyes open at all I was that tired and the sickness and diarrhoea was just completely unbearable - much worse then on active chemotherapy and a million times worst then when I originally started these same tablets in 2024.

The doc thinks that my body had just flat our rejected them completely and now my team are awaiting the results of the scan I’ve just had today to make a decision as to what my next line of treatment will be.

So now I’m over a week without the chemo tablets and feeling brand new again thank god!!!!! I will definitely not be going back on Abemaciclib at all so now it’s just finding the right combination that works for me and allows me to still lead a ‘normal’ life.

So that’s my CT with contrast scan done tonight and on Sunday I have an MRI scan on my arm to check what’s happening with the pain I’ve got there..

Now it’s the wait.. I’m due in clinic on the 7th May so am hope I’ll have the results by then and they will have been discussed and a treatment plan made.

Let’s just hope everything comes back stable 🤞💖

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