Lorraine Leiter
Poetry Series - "Chemo 3"
I’ve just had chemo no.3 God knows what this poison is doing to me But as long as it works I really don’t care About feeling ill or the...
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Lorraine Leiter
- Oct 14, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry Series - "Chemo 2"
Too weak to walk Can barely talk No strength, no hair Filled with despair I cannot taste The food I waste I've shaved off my hair It's no...
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Lorraine Leiter
- Sep 16, 2021
- 2 min
Poetry Series - "Chemo"
I'm living with cancer and today is the day The battle begins to take it away I've got cancer but it hasn't got me I've still got so much...
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Hannah Leach
- Nov 19, 2020
- 5 min
Top Exercise Tips from Specialist Cancer Physiotherapist
My name is Hannah and I am a specialist cancer physiotherapist, with a fire in my belly to help people live their life fully, during and...
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Bridget Prideaux
- Nov 12, 2020
- 4 min
There are some dates we never forget...
There are some dates that we never forget. Some are happy occasions, and make us smile, and others remind us of how quickly our lives can...
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Donna Rockey
- Nov 5, 2020
- 4 min
My perfect bra would be something that is aimed at ladies in my age group!
I’m Donna, I'm Welsh, I have a wicked, dark, sick sense of humour. I’m fluent in a colourful 3 languages and I’m clumsy and a little...
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Caroline Burnish
- Oct 31, 2020
- 4 min
It was a whirlwind of appointments and tests!
2020 was supposed to be the start of a new chapter for myself and my husband. I’m 43 and we have three children aged 19, 22 and 25. It...
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Claire Allison
- Oct 22, 2020
- 11 min
I went to parkrun three days post op, still with my drain in situ!
I noticed some small spots of blood on an old t-shirt that I wore in bed. Brushing it off as old stains that hadn’t come out in the wash...
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Clare Woolrich
- Oct 15, 2020
- 10 min
Take That concert a week after my mastectomy? Wouldn't miss it for the world!!
"I'm so sorry to say you have breast cancer " I just felt like I wasn’t really there in the room...
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Keeley Buckley
- Oct 8, 2020
- 5 min
My detour on the path of life...
My name is Keeley and I live with my lovely husband on the edge of the beautiful Peak District. I’m an outdoor and active person who...
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Ruth Branagh for ELAN Stories
- Oct 1, 2020
- 3 min
Ruth's Story
I didn’t ask for this diagnosis, the mastectomy was life saving surgery
and to add insult to injury I now had to wear an old fashioned bra!
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