One year on
Hello friends! Today is the anniversary of starting this blog, and my boss fight with cancer. I have to admit, that's never a sentence I thought I would ever say. In fact, I never thought that I would get cancer. I was an active, relatively healthy person (apart from my eating habits at work), and if I was unwell would try my hardest to work through it. Cancer is more common than we think, and with my blog I wanted to document my journey, and hopefully enable people to talk more freely about it. A year ago I received my cancer diagnosis. Which you can read my first blog post by clicking me (it will open in a new window), shortly after lockdown started in the UK, due to the global covid-19 pandemic. I had been off sick from work for about a week at this point and from then onward, I was shielding for almost 8 months. Lockdown had eased for the summer, but I was still receiving treatment, and didn't get my "all clear" until November. I returned to work in December,...