Bottle Me Up Buttercup

Me and my Buttercup brain tumour

CORDELIA EDIT 4v3 So here we are. Again. Facing the heart-breaking reality that treatment options within standard of care, in particular for brain cancer, are exceedingly limited. I’m currently limited to palliative chemo to try and hold back any further growth and been told point blank by NHS doctors, there’s no point in even exploring […]

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That’s all I can do at the moment. Keep believing. For me, for Loli, for all of us. In the week since I got the news that my cancer is back with a new highly aggressive inoperable tumour that was non-existence only 3 mths ago, I’ve been ‘living’ in a half world of unknowns, terror, […]

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It’s official. On my 41st birthday I can confirm that the personalised immunotherapy vaccine I started in Germany back in 2019 did indeed work in combination with the low dose chemo to completely eliminate the pesky new tumour that appeared in September last year. The bloodwork investigations I went through in March revealed that despite […]

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A tailspin of emotions. Scared mainly but with a big dose of overwhelm, numbness, and frantic overthinking for good measure. I can’t function properly, forget in an instant something I know I shouldn’t, lose myself in replaying the words and facial expressions, scrutinising anything I might have missed. I go back and forth and back […]

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Finding a definition that portrays the meaning of the word ‘hope’ to cancer patients is impossible. I’ve searched every dictionary due to my fascination of its importance and nothing depicts it accurately enough. One day however, through the enlightening online course ‘Deepening Into Life with Donna Lancaster’, we were tasked with reading ‘The Book of […]

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