What cancer taught me

These powerful ideas don’t only apply to cancer survivors

Pic credit: Emily Graham

This time of year hits different for me these days, as it’s the third anniversary of my breast cancer diagnosis. It was 6 January 2021 that I learned I had grade 3, stage 3, triple negative breast cancer. Happily, treatment was successful and I’m now cancer-free. But in January 2021 it was all scans and tests, cannulas and contrast dyes, and many, many tears. 

Having just left my job as deputy editor of Grazia to go freelance, I remember feeling incredibly anxious about work and money. Looking back at that week in my calendar, it went like this…
Monday: MRI and CT scans.
Tuesday: bone scan.
Wednesday: interviewing Tess Daly for Women’s Health.
Thursday: kidney function test and heart scan.
Friday: interviewing Stacey Solomon for Grazia.
The following week, I had my PICC line inserted for chemo, and interviewed Laura Whitmore for the Telegraph. I remember doing those interviews…