Or not…on the plane back London from Beirut. Can’t wait to get into my new home, see the kids, move back into that life. They moved on 24th October and I haven’t lived in our new home yet – more of the surreal that is my life since July.  And desperately sad to leave The…

I have lost about half of my eyelashes and eyebrows so far – evenly, i.e. a general thinning. However, the outer half of my right eyebrow appears to have disappeared. For fuck’s sake.  Let me list my hair loss: Half of the aforementioned eyebrow  About 80% of the hair on my head. I have a…

Lying in bed in my favourite Beirut hotel, with The Man, having just booked spa treatments, about to get breakfast….and drinks with old and wonderful Beirut friends this evening. Bliss.  Today and hopefully tomorrow I will forget I have cancer, forget my career (although I did just get my new regional position confirmed which makes…

Margaret who joined the bald gang today!!! Wonderful 🙂 🙂 Thank you my friend – so incredibly touched you did this – and you look bloody great! Yes, I had just woken up…..

I was saying yesterday that I could come up with some innovative ice breakers for the workshop: ‘I have cancer. Break into groups of 4 and discuss’ ‘On the projector is a picture of me – take these sticky note pads and each write down one thing you can do for me’ Instead, I ended…

Drugs – Lorazepam to be precise. Rock – that would be the one I’ve been under the last few week. Roll….ing back into the light again.  I caved – I took a sleeping pill last night. And had nearly 9 hours of sleep. For those of you who may be less familiar, its been over…