The last 36 hours have been unexpected, bizarre and awesome. I knew that to coincide with World Cancer Day the lovely Cancer Research UK were going release the latest shocking statistic that 1 in 2 of us will now be effected by cancer, which I have written about here. I also knew CRUK were going to [...]
Tag: Life After Cancer
World Cancer Day!
Happy World Cancer Day! Yes the 4th February is World Cancer Day and on my blog, we are celebrating, as obviously I like any opportunity to talk about cancer. Why? Because I think it is through talking about my experience that I can put having cancer to its best use. Giving people a chance to understand [...]
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Hartwell House Hotel and Aromatherapy Associates – Anti-Bucket List 2015 Update
One of the best things about putting 'visiting Spa's' on my Anti-Bucket List is getting to do one of my favourite things…. visit spa's! Last weekend I had the complete joy of visiting a new spa near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, at Hartwell House Hotel with my lovely friend L.J. Ross. The old manor house has been turned [...]
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Clean Cocoa Coconut Bites
This is based on a recipe from Honestly Healthy a fabulous cookbook full of healthy clean recipes that I can't recommend enough. What I love most, especially during my 100 Healthy Days and since giving up processed sugar is the snacks and desserts section. Yes they can be clean and here is one of my [...]
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Day 36 – 100 Healthy Days – Keeping Momentum High
There is no doubt that it was easier for me to stay healthy whilst in Spain. The heat, swimming pool and delicious salads made it easier for me to eat healthy and move more everyday. It's when I'm home I seem to struggle, especially with sugar and caffeine. I just get so tired with the [...]
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100 Healthy Days – And So It Begins
Today is Day 2 of 100 Healthy Days. If you have read my blog previously you will probably know that I am a total sugar addict, adore carbs and live for cheese. Anything that your not supposed to eat on a healthy diet, I am totally and irrevocably in love with. And its true love, [...]
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This Too Shall Pass
I am having a tough day. I have hay-fever so bad it is making my head foggy and I am struggling to write this post as just looking down is making my nose run. My kids are doing everything they know they shouldn't and completely ignoring me when I try to retain some semblance of [...]
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The Anti-Bucket List Continues…
If you don't know what my Anti-Bucket List is, you can find out exactly what I am talking about in my previous post 'The Anti-Backet List' but basically, the theory behind it is that people write Bucket Lists of things they would like to do before they die, I write an Anti-Bucket lists of things I would [...]
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Nicola B and the TWO Big C’s
Obviously the first one is Cancer. But I have another big C, in a lot of ways it is a bigger C, certainly to me, so big that I often don't really speak about it. The other big C is my Colostomy. For those who don't know, a Colostomy is when you have part of [...]
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The Many Emotions Of Cancer
Cancer is obviously an emotional roller coaster. Not only for the person with cancer but for the people around them as well. When you have cancer, some of the emotions you experience are one's that everyone expects you to have - feelings like anger, sorrow, fear and a general feeling of being over-whelmed or worn-out with [...]
