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A Chemo Cocktail: My Experience with PCV
Maybe this is the first step toward my bigger goal: helping others help themselves. I want people to experience that shift, that feeling of hard work paying off and keeping the promises you make to yourself.
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From Struggle to Resilience: My Optometry Comeback
Returning to work felt like pulling the ripcord mid-freefall, a sudden jolt, a rush of movement, and then, finally, a slow drift back toward something that looked and felt like stability. Serenity and silence for my mind. At least for a little while.
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Lessons from a Brain Tumor: Finding Clarity in Chaos
This chapter in my story covers what I got up in the interim period post diagnosis but pre-surgery. My Return to work, trips to Egypt and things I got up to awaiting T-day.
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From E-Scooter Accident to Brain Tumour Diagnosis: My Story
During the wait for my MDP (Multi disciplinary panel) I took full advantage of any sympathy food to come my way. You would be surprised by how far getting knocked off an e-scooter gets you in terms of free-food! On the run up to Christmas 2022 I honestly had one of the most jam-packed social…
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My Radiotherapy Journey: 30 Days Under the Mask
These masks hold your head perfectly still during treatment because even the slightest movement can change where the radiation hits, so precision is everything. The fitting involved stretching a warm thermoplastic material over my face. It moulded itself perfectly as it cooled and hardened. You could still breathe, but it did feel a bit claustrophobic.…
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Navigating Scanxiety: Insights on Tumor Progression
It’s a heavy weight to bear at times, but then I remind myself that many others are facing far tougher battles, some lying in hospital beds, dreaming of the chances I still have. The chance to live, to move, to be well enough to explore and experience the world. That perspective helps quiet the negative…
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I am committed to bringing you my true, raw and unfiltered experiences living with a brain tumour. Expect a humorous take on a gritty and often difficult subject. Through the lens of positivity, I examine the daily struggles and challenges of those of us living with brain tumours.
I aim to advocate, educate and shed light on an often misunderstood subject.
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