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We need to talk about… Ovarian Cancer
February is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month and so I thought I should help spread the word. So, if you ever wanted to get to know this disease here are the latest stats… Ovarian cancer is the 9th most...
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Let’s Get Physical: Gym Therapy
Beyond traditional treatment trial #4: Exercise you can do whilst on chemo… A strange thing happened whilst I was undergoing weekly chemo treatments… I started to use my gym membership for almost the...
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Now and Zen: Confessions of a Lazy Meditator
Beyond traditional treatment trial #3: Pause, breath, relax 12 months ago I never would have believed that I would be writing about meditation. Even my inner hippie, who loves a crystal or an incense...
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High Five: The Science of Happiness
Yesterday I rode my bike for the first time in weeks (it’s been on a holiday with a sister up the coast) and it got me thinking about what makes me happy. If cancer gives you one thing it’s a new...
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Book review #1 You Can Conquer Cancer
Beyond traditional treatment book review #1 Over the summer I have been busy reading all of the books on health and cancer that have been given or lent to me over the past year and a half. I have been...
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Chemo Brain: It’s a Thing!
One of the first things I experienced with chemo was feeling completely zonked out during treatment. I often slept through the whole thing, which, BTW is the best way to get through it. This was...
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According to Google I should be dead, but I’m not…
Once the shock and the tears subsided, one of the first things that we did when I was diagnosed was to hit up Google for some stats on ovarian cancer and an explanation of the new terms we were hearing...
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Pop Til You Drop: Pills, drugs and more medications
I know people who have not even had a Panadol in years because they don’t believe in medications to take away pain. I do. I am currently taking three different pills a day as part of my treatment (plus...
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The bald and the beautiful: Losing my hair
I had a surprising and heartwarming experience after a doctor’s appointment one day. I was leaving the building (with my headscarf on) and a woman also exiting touched me on the arm on her way past and...
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Push the little daisies: Flower Therapy
Beyond Traditional Treatments: Trial #2 OK, this doesn’t really exist as a therapy, except perhaps in my head, but I swear it can help. For a while I bought a bunch of flowers each week for my home. I...
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