Day 1268: Chemo Finished - Another Milestone Ticked Off, this is the blog post I've waited 1236 days to write yet it has been the hardest.
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Surviving a child cancer diagnosis – the first two months
Surviving a child cancer diagnosis isn't easy. This post lists the things I wish i'd known from day one, we hope this may help other parents in the future.
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Day 59: Surviving Christmas with Cancer
We just about survived Christmas, it’s been challenging, emotional, hilarious, fun, festive, frustrating, filled with laughter and baby sharks, tears, tantrums, lots of temperature checking and ALL the food!
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Day 53: FOMO – Fear of Missing Out
FOMO = Fear Of Missing Out. Bilbo is missing school, missing experiences and it gives me a heart wrenching "FOMO" on his behalf.
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Day 50: Managing expectations and Winging It
Since D Day we’ve been winging it sometimes we’re getting it wrong VERY WRONG and some days I swear I deserve the Oscar equivalent for parenting.
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Day 44: Pearson, Tears and Dinosaurs
55 Days It has been exactly 55 days since I was last in the Pearson office in London. The week before Bilbo was diagnosed I traveled to our Hoboken office for a leadership team meeting. It was a great week, I was left energised and excited. I had new things…
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40 days of cancer…
10 more days And like that another 10 days have passed, we’ve now hit 40 days of fighting cancer. It feels like yesterday I was writing 30 days of cancer… Time flies when you’re having fun – hmmmmm hardly BUT weirdly for the last 2 days that is actually true. We’ve enjoyed…
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Day 38: Things I hate about cancer
Things I hate about cancer. When you get a cancer diagnosis there is no time off for good behaviour. You’re not off the hook Even on a week when we have limited time in the hospital and less medication. You can’t switch off the big C button, be normal, and…
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Santa, School, Sausage Casserole and Wet Wipes
There is a sentence I never imagined I’d write… “Santa, School, Sausage Casserole and Wet Wipes” But they are all connected in some way to the last four days. When you’re battling cancer four days feels like a long time, days can feel like a lifetime. And the last four…
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30 days of cancer…
I can hardly believe we’ve been battling cancer for 30 days. Some days it feels like we’ve been doing it for a life time. Other days I feel so new and useless. It is safe to say that it has been the hardest 30 days of my life. Harder than…