14 weeks post
#chemo
& I’ve got proper hair 🙃 can’t believe it’s been 14 weeks already!! Anyone bald and fully chemo immersed, keep trucking it will come back quickly once you finish 💕 Not sure I’m going to get the
#chemocurls
though! I’ve been robbed!!! 🤣
#lobularcancer
I think you can say I’m officially bald 🙈 We did another shave yesterday because it was so uncomfortable. Not only does your hair fall out but the hair that’s left gets sore. Round 3
#RedDevil
#chemo
this morning. After that I’m nearly half way to the 🔔🙌
#breastcancer
#cancer
Reading the
@TheGreenParty
manifesto. It’s quite literally a breath of fresh air. Why on earth you wouldn’t vote Green if you have the opportunity to is beyond me. Please read it & vote so we can create a cleaner greener fairer society 💚
#VoteGreen
10/15
#radiotherapy
sessions done ✅ 🙌✅ Last week of treatment next week (I think). Skin getting pink & got an annoying cough, which I think is where they’re blasting above collarbone & bone tired but hair growing fast & so excited to be near the end
#lobularcancer
Just had my last bloods for chemo. Final chemo this Friday woooooo hoooooo 🙌🙌🙌 Saw the oncologist and start 3 weeks of radiotherapy in about 4 weeks time and Tamoxifen for 10 years. Which means I’m nearly done!!! They’re gonna zap breast & collar bone lymph areas
#breastcancer
It’s done the hair is gone thanks & big love to my number 1 & only son Osc who is gonna make an amazing barber 🤣 ❤️ taking back control of my
#cancer
. Most empowering thing I’ve ever done
#bravetheshave
#breastcancer
#chemo
💕💕💕
I’ve just joined the
@TheGreenParty
something I’ve been thinking about for a while. A lifetime
@UKLabour
voter this was the absolute last straw for me
@ThangamMP
…
Kirsty Wark: “Would you revoke the licences?”
Thangam Debbonaire: “No.”
Kirsty Wark: “So in effect you actually support this fossil fuel strategy?”
We deserve so much better than what Labour is offering.
Put my wig on tonight and spent the best night with family & friends celebrating my 50th birthday 🥳 🎉 things are on the up and I couldn’t be happier or more grateful 🥰
#curry
#goodbyecancer
#lookingahead
My hair is falling out this morning. I can’t control much in this situation but this is one little step I can control if only for a short while. Today I
#BraveTheShave
and stand in solidarity with all the other brave shaved & bald ladies 💪
#cancer
#breastcancer
#chemo
#RedDevil
I’m off to
#Oxford
on the train this morning for our first UK
#filmscreening
of
@sixinchessoil
which is happening tonight
@ORFC
!!! This is my first night away in 16 months!! Excited & a teeny tiny bit nervous. Wish us luck! Lots of updates over the next 36 hours 🎬🎥🪱🐛
I’ve just written a letter to my MP
@DominicRaab
. If you feel as angry as I do this morning I would suggest doing the same. It won’t make any difference but I hope they’re flooded with letters from constituents telling them how they feel and I hope they never forget those words
Got my
#radiotherapy
dates 🙌🙌 Marking up appt in 2 weeks today & first radiotherapy session on 17th Aug. Will have 15 sessions (which I already knew). This means my
#cancer
treatment will be finished by 2nd week of Sept woooooo hoooooo 💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻
@LifeAfloat
I think you might quite literally be the luckiest person in the UK right now being in nature and away from all the madness. Loving following your journey 😍
My PET scan is CLEAR 🙌🙌🙌🙌 so no spread to lungs, brain, liver etc. wooooo hooooooo. The chemo starting next Wednesday will kill any nasty stray cells and I will be back in tip top condition in a few months yippeee 💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻
#cancer
#breastcancer
#healing
#happydays
😄
So glad I joined the
@TheGreenParty
last year I would never vote for this
@UKLabour
Party,
@Keir_Starmer
doesn’t speak for me and this nonsense from Peter Mandelson shows me I made the absolute right choice…
“The Green Party is becoming a dustbin, a repository not only for climate activists, but for disgruntled hard leftists."
Peter Mandelson says the Greens will “rue the day when they threw open their doors."
🗳️ How To Win An Election
🎧
@MattChorley
New hair
#mullet
😊 Best thing about losing your hair in cancer treatment and then having
#chemocurls
is you can experiment your heart out when it grows back 😁
@BBCNews
The rebellion was actually led by
@GreenJennyJones
with the help of independent journalists and campaigners on social media, who convinced Labour and others to reject the polluters charter outright. Great work everyone
🧵1/3 So 2023 is not quite going according to plan. Instead of launching my new
@AbundantTimes_
blog I’m going to be starting treatment for
#breastcancer
. It’s all very treatable and I’m feeling super positive with lots to look forward to this year. I will still do
@JumpPRTV
work
Third
#Zoladex
this morning. Last week I found out it’s worked & I’m post
#menopause
whoop whoop 🙌 This means I can now switch from
#Tamoxifen
to
#Letrozole
which hopefully will be better at preventing
#LobularCancer
recurrence 🙏 Bone scan, & 1 year scan (already!) in Jan
Like many
#allotment
sites our site is being constantly manicured with the “committee” deciding to remove wild spaces on the edges unbelievably strimming and tidying the riverbank!!! So I’ve just created a
#protest
on the gate. We have to stop interfering with
#nature
✊✊
1/2 🧵OMG really really good news. The hospital got my MRI back in less than 24hrs!!! Apart from some tiny cancerous nodules next to the tumour there is no more cancer 🙌🙌🙌 Surgery in next couple of weeks. Will still take lymph node(s) but not expecting to find anything
My
#oncologist
Dr Teoh is a legend! She agrees re annual MRI & also monthly Zoladex & switching me to Letrozole in a few weeks & Zoledronic infusion every 6 months for 5 years to try and stop recurrence. I took this letter template produced by
@LobularBCUK
👇👇👇
#lobularcancer
This week has mostly been a horrible nausea battle 🤢 but my little tomato plants that I sowed a few weeks ago are coming along nicely which makes me super happy (even though looking at 🍅🍅 makes me feel 🤮 at the mo)🙈
#cancer
#growyourown
#naturefriendly
#permaculture
Fantastic to see so many people come out to show their support for this. Given me goosebumps 💚🌍 Imagine if every single one of us decided to stand up & protect nature, what a beautiful, kind & compassionate world we would live in…
City councillors from all 4 parties & a big turnout of residents at a demo in support of Yew Tree Farm in South Bristol and the bizarre tale of its threatened hedge
Full story here:
Just done my 48th and FINAL Filgastrim injection!!! 🙌🙌🙌 It’s an epic moment 🥳🥳 Thanks for keeping my blood count healthy Filgastrim but I hope I never ever see you or your bone pain ever again!!! 🤣
#cancertreatment
#finishedchemo
#ontheup
#breastcancer
🚨BREAKING NEWS
ON WEDNESDAY Green Party Baroness
@natalieben
will move a Fatal Motion in the House of Lords on the Government’s Anti-Strike Regulations to STOP IT ROBBING MILLIONS OF WORKERS OF THEIR RIGHT TO STRIKE
WILL
@Keir_Starmer
@UKLabour
STAND UP FOR WORKERS & BACK IT?
#chemo
round 2 tomorrow 😬 saw one of the lovely onco nurses this morn & they’re giving some new anti sickness meds so I hopefully don’t have the intense nausea reaction 🙏 Anyone else taken Olanzapine for chemo nausea? Even the side effect meds are scary!!
#breastcancer
#Cancer
I’m distinctly lacking in eyelashes again at the moment 🙈 I think because they all grow back at the same time after
#chemo
they all come to the end of their natural cycle at the same time too! Very annoying
#LobularCancer
The
#Zoledronicacid
is kicking my butt now. Feel absolutely horrendous 😢 Online it says side effects kick in around 16 hours & was exactly 16 hours. Hope it’s short lived feel like I’ve got flu 🤒
#lobularcancer
#cancerprevention
@SuellaBraverman
@farehamwine
Jeez why on earth would they want their business associated with you!! If I was Dom or Roy I’d have had that door triple bolted and the closed sign up before you’d reached the handle!
#chemo
round 5 is done wooooo hoooo. I didn’t crash and so far me a
#Paclitaxel
are friends 🤣 3 more to go!!!! Over 6 hours in infusion suite but listened to a book, shut my eyes or watched the clouds drift by out the window
#cancer
#breastcancer
Harvested my first ever squash this morning 💚😃 and my lovely plot neighbour Clive gave me a beautiful celeriac that he’d just pulled out the ground 💚 Happy days. Zigs thinks he’s got a new toy 🤣
Me & my lovely friend Lou last night celebrating Osc’s 18th 🎉Lou is one of my little local circle of
#cancerbuddies
which also includes the wonderful Sarah, Hels, Lisa & Irene 😇❤️ They drive me to
#chemo
& appts & make sure I’m okay at all times
#cancer
#friends
#grateful
❤️
@LBC
@AndrewCastle63
You arrested a journalist wearing a press pass. The rest of the world now looking on wondering how the UK has become a police state. Shameful
I’ll be over a third of the way through
#radiotherapy
later with 9 more sessions to go 🙌🙌 It’s a doddle physically so far compared to
#chemo
but going to hospital every day is much more tiring & stressful than I anticipated. Nearly at the finish line now though yay 😀 💤
@MetPoliceEvents
This might be a little more disruptive & distressing but who cares when you can complain about and arrest the people that are trying to do some good. We live in a truly weird country/world
@MetPoliceEvents
Wow, so you’re going to arrest people before a crime has been committed? Have I woken up in North Korea? I thought we lived in a democracy but clearly not. I suggest you read George Orwell’s 1984 …it might sound familiar!
#GeneralElectionNow
Massive thank you to everyone that has sent such kind messages on my bald
#chemo
post earlier. So v grateful & would like to message everyone back but so v tired. So far so good on the nausea front the meds are working 🙏🤞Sleep now 💕💤💕 thank you
#cancer
#BreastCancer
I’m having an actual haircut tomorrow!!! I’ve got bits sticking out all over the shop and need some attention 🤣 I was completely bald 4 months ago. How mad is that!!
10 days post 1st
#chemo
. It’s been rough BUT me & my bestest friend Zigs have just got back from our first solo
#woodswalk
🐝☀️🌸 💚 Feel ten million times better today yipppeeee 🙌🙌🙌
#nature
#woods
#MyHappyPlace
☀️☀️
Brilliant catch up with my mate
@JoeyJOH
. Been a while but we always pick up where we left off 🤩 We’ve both been around the block after many years in the media industry, first meeting back in around 2000 in the good old IBE Magazine days….
@KateFordJump
Off to hosp this morning for bloods to see if my ovaries have stopped producing oestrogen 2 weeks after 1st Zoladex implant. If they have then next week my onco will switch me from Tamoxifen to Letrozole. This will give me better chance at not getting
#lobularcancer
recurrence
Got this fab mini trampoline for my birthday from my fellow Jumpers
@JumpPRTV
❤️ It’s great for
#cancer
recovery exercise for
#lymphatic
drainage. I had all lymph nodes under my right arm removed (23). Rebounding helps drain lymphatic fluid & prevent
#lymphoedema
🙌 Happy days
I’m so happy with my new microbladed
#eyebrows
😃🙌 A huge thank you to the fabulous Chloe at Radiance Beauty in Walton-on-Thames who did a patch test and tattooed me in the space of 48 hours. Cancer’s going to take my hair but I’m still going to have these 💕
#breastcancer
@_joelashton
@PTES
@Buzz_dont_tweet
@NHM_London
@DrRossPiper
@georgecmcgavin
💚💚 I rescued one that was upside down outside the hairdressers recently. Put it on my bug house with a squished grape. It barely moved for about 12 hours. Next day it was gone & few days later I heard some rustling while watering and there it was looking fabulous 😍
Just had some brilliant news. My cancer nurse Outra just rang and it was 2 positive lymph nodes and 2 negative 🙌🙌🙌 they then took a load more which have gone for pathology but if they are all negative I’m in very good shape wooo hooo. It’s a bit of a rollercoaster this!!
Thank you, thank you, thank you for all the kind messages from friends,
#cancer
community and loads of people who don’t know me from Adam for taking a few moments to send best wishes re my
#chemo
ending. So grateful for the love & support here. Twitter at its best ❤️❤️
Definitely my favourite garden at
#hamptoncourtshow
today. Unfortunately I don’t remember who made it but it’s full off
#edibles
#pollinators
& beauty and I’d happily live in that tiny house. And if it was dropped in the middle of nowhere even better 💚🌻🐝🌱
So far
#chemo
round 2 has been much kinder 🙌🙌 the new meds have done the trick as I didn’t have any nausea or ear ringing last night. Very tired and got that slightly nasty drug induced feeling but all manageable 😃 injections start again tomorrow yippeeee 🤣🤣
#cancer
Just spent 3 hours at the
#allotment
with my partner in crime 🐶 Started prepping 3 beds & sowed
#broadbeans
. Walked home with jelly legs 🤣 Going to be in agony tomorrow but worth it. Spring is in the air 💚
#nodig
#naturefriendly
I’m jumping back in to work this week yippee & (hopefully) being around on a more regular basis (when not having chemo). The auto responder is coming off and I’m looking forward to catching up 🙌🙌🙌😊😊
1/2 Had a bit of a scary
#chemo
experience last Weds. Basically had a severe
#paclitaxel
allergic reaction which caused me to have a chemo induced seizure 😬 not fun, but I’m all okay. Massive thanks to all the
@ASPHFT
#oncology
nurses including Rachel & Lin & the crash team who
We’re all mothers to some degree regardless of whether we’ve birthed a child it’s in our nature to nurture. So happy
#mothersday
to all the human mothers, animal mothers, environmental mothers and all the fabulous women doing remarkable and unremarkable things 💚✊