My whole world changed on the last day of June 2015, just a week ago tomorrow. Since January 2015 I have been having some health issues. Oh! how disconnected that little phrase sounds. Investigations followed a visit to my GP: bloods, scans, examinations, operation, biopsy then result.

There’s no easy or gentle way to tell you that I have been diagnosed with Endometrial Cancer.

By the end of the week I will have had a CT scan and will have a date for my surgery: total hysterectomy. My consultant told me it will be a success and I will go on to live a long and full life. He also said I was young (in the operation & recovery sense I supposed), I feel the poor man is either loosing his sight or needs new glasses!

I am absolutely fine, strong as an ox mentally if not physically! I believe the operation will successfully remove the cancer. Obviously, there is the possibility that it has gone elsewhere, but a scan in my local hospital on Friday 10th will have the answer to that. Unfortunately I won’t know until just before my Op.

I am choosing to believe what my consultant told me.
I am choosing to believe that once free of the bits of me that are causing pain and sleepless nights I will be well again.
I am choosing to go through a rough few months with a positive mind set.
I promise to be a good patient for Paul who is my rock (this will be the hardest thing for me).

Ben & Lotta have been wonderful; as have my family and friends who sprinkle my day with texts, phone calls and laughter. Ben made me laugh so much after he looked up the details of my operation and said, “Oh! definitely no brother or sister then?”. A very funny 26 year old young man…

To people that don’t understand blogging, posting this is a strange thing to do, but as I have so many of you and your families in my constant thoughts, it seems natural for me to ask you – my blogging friends – to add me to your thoughts and prayers.

I am keeping my hands busy and my mind occupied, which is why I’m still posting to Instagram, still taking pictures and still blogging: all be it at a reduced frequency. I do feel I overloaded myself in June! Typical of me!

Please send all positive thoughts and good vibrations here