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Continue reading →: If You Can Remember LoveComing out of chemo and into two surgeries at the end of last year made any hope of memory impossible. Of course, I remember heart beats around certain days, or events, but it was like flipping a book with the crest of your thumb as fast as you can and…
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Continue reading →: Honest IngredientsI was in chemotherapy for breast cancer when everything changed — not just in my body, but in my relationship with food. My system was wiped out, and it had no room left for anything artificial. No refined sugar. No alcohol. No mysterious “natural” sweeteners that made me return it…
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Continue reading →: Delicious Supportive Fibre-Rich SmoothieThis smoothie became my go-to after the third cycle of chemotherapy (EC). I didn’t realise just how quickly even a small drop in fibre intake for a day could affect my body during treatment. So this creation guaranteed my daily intake, so that I could have a slice of toast…
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Continue reading →: Sending All My Love Along The WireThe lyrics from “How to Save a Life” by The Fray echo around me in a supermarket, as the diagnosis is still so fresh and we’re preparing for more appointments.
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Continue reading →: You Have Cake On Your TitsWhenever things went really wrong for me or my sister in our twenties, we would stay up late talking with a glass of red wine, passing a cigarette between us. Or we’d get tucked up in bed together with a slice of cake and cups of tea. “You’ve got cake…
