30 minutes after departing Albuquerque I was shaken out of my Panda Express and Tequila induced stupor by a man trying to aggressively open the airplane door 4 rows back. Me and 5 other dudes had to wrestle him into the aisle, duct tape his legs, and throw flexi-cuffs on him.
Just in time for my 47th birthday I been given the 6 month all clear from cancer by my surgeon. This feels better than anything so far, it is freedom. Absolutely buzzing lads 🙏🏼
Lads. I’M UNOFFICIALLY CANCER FREE. Surgeon just told me there was NO CANCER in anything he removed, so I’ve had a COMPLETE RESPONSE. Head is absolutely mashed right now, happy Friday 🥳
Extremely tired. I don’t do early mornings. But I’m off to COSTA RICA for my first holiday in over a year since The Cancer. Yoga, jungle and beach life for 17 days, in a new place. This is a dream holiday for me and one I booked in throes of chemo. Let’s goooooo 😎
I have just read on Instagram the phrase ‘let’s throw some thought noodles into the mind wok’ and I may never recover, this will never leave my armoury. Outstanding
tumour has HALVED lads. Saw my surgeon this morning and he is thrilled, confirmed it will be a lumpectomy rather than a mastectomy which is brilliant. Basically knocking it out the park, love and positivity from my Twitter fam has been invaluable. Big up your chests 🙏🏼
Morning all, as a treat have a thread of stuff Bez said at a talk for his new book last night. Firstly, you need to know that every other word was ‘fucking.’ Secondly, he has A LOT of stories. Last thing, he forgets what he’s saying constantly. Anyway here we go:
This is a post about kindness, and passing it on. During summer I posted on Twitter I was selling my
@weoutherefest
ticket due to me being in treatment for cancer. I sold the ticket quickly but a couple of days later I got a message from
@FemiOnDrums
saying how sorry he was 1/4
Chemo, surgery and now radiotherapy all done lads, just immunotherapy left. Cancer is a bastard so the treatment needs to be even worse. Obviously we are not discussing my grey regrowth but after being bald I’ll take it. Oh and happy Christmas from my hospital in mid Nov 👍🏼
2023 HOW IT STARTED/HOW ITS GOING. Not much else happened other than being diagnosed with and kicking the shit out of stage 3 triple negative breast cancer but HAPPY WITH THAT. Full of energy and positivity for 2024, BRING IT! HNYE my lovely Twitter friends 🥳
GOOD NEWS LADS. Tuesday’s MRI is showing a great response from the tumour and lymph nodes to treatment. My genetic testing also came back negative, so I don’t have the BRCA gene. These are huge wins this early on so I will be celebrating with some contraband refined sugar 🥳 🍰
Chemo # 1 done. A very long way to go but I was really nervous about it and it was absolutely fine. The cold cap for me was by far the worst bit about it and I can deal with losing my hair, I think. I’ve been looked after so well and have so many beautiful people supporting me 🙏🏼
Here we go lads, I’m not having fucking chemo determine when my hair comes out I’m getting ahead of the game (pun intended). It’s just hair right it will grow back 😬
Final immunotherapy today - the end of a 15 month cancer journey. Mixed emotions really - obviously relief and joy at it ending, but anxiety about it returning. All normal I’m sure and I continue with therapy to help with that. Always here to talk if anyone needs it ❤️
@_andrewkerr_
you should be absolutely fine mate just also make sure in the queue you say it’s your first time in a loud English accent and you’ll be reet
I cannot stress enough how much I support what they did. As someone who lost their own mother in a car accident, I can’t imagine how triggering this was for him and this made me cry. Good for them, and people hating on them should be ashamed. Break the cycle.
alright lads, I know you’re all worried so just an update to let you know I’ve been diagnosed with breast cancer and will be starting chemo ASAP. It’s going to be a rollercoaster but I’m ready and being treated by the best in the country. Positive vibes only, onwards ✌🏼
GOOD NEWS. The rest of my body is cancer free. I do have cancer cells in the sentinel node but hopefully chemo will treat it before it can spread any further. I’m happy with them apples for today and start chemo next week. That’s the rough bit but need to play the long game 🙏🏼
here we go lads, chemo sweet 16 (in a way) and my final one (for now). I will know post surgery whether I’ll need more treatment but for now this is it. 6 months of being a hairless mole rat and gollum combined, I’ve made it look good 😎💅🏼
I can’t wait to get back to the pub...and I don’t even drink.
Good news for business today and glad we’ll all have a chance to enjoy the summer safely.
#4thofJuly
that I was ill and missing
@EzraCollective
at the festival and that he would love to put me on the list for their next London show. Last night I attended that show at a sold out
@RoyalAlbertHall
and had the best seats in the house. Femi often talks about spreading joy 2/4
found another lump which I’m fairly certain is fat necrosis from the surgery so I’m getting a double mammogram today. This is my regular reminder for you all to check your bits regularly and get anything unusual checked out. DO IT
a massive thankyou to the train manager on the
@AvantiWestCoast
16.53 from Euston to Manchester Picc who put me straight into first class when I explained I’d missed my booked train and seat due to chemo talking longer than expected. Extremely grateful to him 🙏🏼
Finally, he recently got married but a load of his mates live in his garden and he has bar. In true Bez spirit he is a wonderful, affable, generous soul with stories beyond your wildest imagination. He said he has loads more but he’s in danger of being a grass. Legend.
I’m not even joking I was on the tube home and took my headscarf off and a little girl was staring, when I looked at her mum she said ‘she said you’re pretty’ and I had to hold everything together until I got off. Even if it’s not true shit like that really means a lot 😭
just been told I’m getting my chemo port removed on Saturday, big tings! Assuming my oncologist is happy with my bloods from yesterday and my surgeon is happy when I see him Friday then that bad boy is coming out! 6am Saturday morning tho 😫
mixed results from my final MRI pre surgery, I’ve had a ‘partial response’ to this chemo and lymph nodes are still showing signs. Gotta wait until they’re removed and analysed to know what happens next but possibly a clinical trial if they’re still cancerous. Dig deep, onwards 🙏🏼
last night I decided when I’ve kicked cancer to the kerb I’m going to do all the stuff I’ve wanted to for ages - European rail travel, beach combing for fossils, Scottish island hopping - all of it on my own if I have to. Life is too short.
Me, my sister and brother reunited after a year of cancer treatment. Brother is 39 tomorrow and about to complete the Royal Marines. We’ve not had the easiest life so it’s always a blessing to be together, happy and healthy 🙏🏼
and through his music that’s a given but his ethos continues outside of that. That gesture meant so much to me at a difficult time and has inspired me to also spread joy, and kindness. So thankyou Femi for your unwavering positivity which is so needed right now and for 3/4
ngl lads this chemo has broken me. Can’t even eat much which is the last small joy I have left. Feeling a tad despondent but clinging onto getting to Manchester this weekend for my nephews 6th birthday party hopes and prayers 🙏🏼
GOOOOOOD morning all I drew my own eyebrows on for the first time ever today (I’ve never touched them before and they’ve pretty much all fallen out) and I’m basically a make up artist now and taking commissions, look how good they are! Buzzing
felt sorry for myself because I can’t have chemo, can’t have a drink, can’t mix with other people - basically can’t do anything fun - so went to one of my fave places to cheer myself up 🙏🏼☀️
Its Father’s Day, and once again I
am shouting out all the non biological fathers who pick up where the biological fathers failed. Mine was one of them so today I acknowledge his sacrifices and remember him with love. So big up all the real dads, we see you ❤️
boo fucking hoo listen to the entitlement - as if a 5 year old needs a champagne glass? The Bull & Last is a fine establishment, slagging them off on social media for this is pathetic. Grow up
My evening summarises whats wrong with society;
Me and OH take Alice, aged 5, to a local restaurant
#bullandbush
Hampstead to celebrate New Year as a family. We have a glass of champagne and ask for Alice's apple juice to be served in a champagne glass so that she can feel she
London is the greatest multicultural city in the world and people like you don’t fit in i’m afraid. I was born here and the communities make it what it is and always have done. With no respect I suggest you move to the shires you racist div
@Doddsyy97
have some respect lads, Michael’s a legend and we wouldn’t have clubs like fabric if it wasn’t for people like him. How is this in any way harming you, dance somewhere else if you’re such babies. Club culture welcomes everyone, and put your phones away
I think I can put this here but today I had lunch with friends, one of whom has weeks left due to cancer. I have made it my personal mission to make those weeks as good as can be. Be grateful, always.
following on from yesterdays post, here I am rocking chemo chic dressed as a skinhead outside the Turkish where i smashed so much of that crack bread I felt uncomfortable
Laurent is one of the good guys. I met him in Ibiza about 15 years ago at a friend’s villa and he was installing pirate radio on the roof. We struck up a friendship and when I was in Paris for work a couple of years later he picked me up on his Vespa and took me for snails. Boss
honestly how much hacienda reminiscing can we take? We know all the stories and records already because we’ve been told A MILLION TIMES. Give it a rest, move on
I am absolutely RAGING this morning that Israel not only rejected the ceasefire but bombed a trapped and terrified population full of children whilst we look away at photos of rich people in their expensive clothes at the Met Gala. This world is absolutely fucked, it disgusts me
She is the best of us. Seeing her standing there so bravely whilst visibly scared and upset gives me so much hope that we are many. I won’t give airtime to the racist thugs, they are getting enough of that both on here and mainstream media. Elevate her.
5 years ago yesterday we lost this legend to cancer, he would raise hell in that fire engine. I will be raising a toast to him and mum this Christmas, this year has been hard without them but I am proud of myself for getting through it and I know they would be proud of me 🙏🏼
chemo
#4
today and I’m trying to put my mates off coming as it’s so long and boring - Kerry just said mate we're used to being really bored we've been friends with you for over twenty years
in a wonderful twist of fate I am on a train full of Tories to Henley Regatta, the toriest Toryfest you can ever imagine. Looking forward to drinking their champagne and then pushing them in the river to catch E. coli. What a day for it.
yesterday I lost a dear London friend to cancer but today although my heart is heavy I am walking over London Bridge in the sunshine knowing she is no longer suffering whilst listening to the bells of Southwark ringing for her ❤️
HELLS BELLS it’s chemo 12. What a way to start the week eh? Last one of this batch, I’ve done 12 weekly sessions of 2 different types of chemo and next week I move onto a more hardcore one. So today is a bit of a milestone, which is important because treatment is LONG. Let’s gooo
wearing a big fancy dress to go to Whitstable for the weekend because I don’t get to do anything fancy atm. I was told chemo 3 and 4 would be the worst but in true Heidi style I feel mint and I’m gonna smash a load of oysters and white wine to make up for missing
@weoutherefest
On being on stage, he said he didn’t ever want to but Shaun convinced him and after the first couple of times someone said to Shaun it’s nice that you let that kid with special needs up there with you.
some chirpsy little cunts just called me dude at the train station because my head is shaved - told them lads I’ve got cancer and you’ve never seen chopsy little bastards shut up as fast
I want to learn something. Share one interesting fact you know.
I’ll start. We were able to get an idea of when humans first began wearing clothes - which was 10s of 1000s of years earlier than the oldest clothing we’ve found - because of when body lice diverged from head lice.