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January 29, 2023January 30, 2023
Claire-A-Slade

29th January 2023 Over the last few weeks, I’ve been having coaching sessions.  I’ve mentioned the challenges I’ve been having lately at work, and the difficulty I have continuing to work for “the organisation” that let me down.  The hope

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3 Years on…

November 24, 2022November 24, 2022
Claire-A-Slade

24th November 2022 Today is my third “cancerversary”.  It is three years since Sh** Sunday – the 24th November 2019.  Three years since receiving my diagnosis rather unceremoniously via a screenshot of the CT scan with a “here you go”

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Worried sick…

September 8, 2022September 8, 2022
Claire-A-Slade

8th September 2022 “My name is Claire, and I suffer with health anxiety.”  There, I’ve said it.  It feels like I have been carrying around a dirty secret for a long time, but hopefully admitting I have the problem is

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Glad tidings…

December 24, 2021November 23, 2022
Claire-A-Slade

24th December 2021 I am ready for Christmas. I’m as prepared as I possibly can be for the festivities tomorrow. The children are super excited, and this year, I have the added bonus of a Christmas not shrouded in a

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Cancerversaries…and bull encounters…

November 24, 2021July 14, 2022
Claire-A-Slade

24th November 2021 Today is my second “Cancerversary”.  It’s 2 years to the day since I received my bowel cancer diagnosis.  Sh*t Sunday, the 24th November 2019, is indelibly etched on my mind.  So much has happened since then: surgery,

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Dropping the box…

November 20, 2021November 26, 2021
Claire-A-Slade

20th November 2021 Metaphors.  My cancer recovery seems to have been framed by metaphors.  For me, the most significant has been “the box”. I’ve blogged previously about the “box”.  That is, my box of emotional readiness for round two –

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Me vs Manchester Half (minus bowel cancer)…

October 10, 2021October 10, 2021
Claire-A-Slade

10th October 2021 Today was a big day.  To be fair, it was never going to be about just getting round.  Not for me. This was a long-awaited rematch.  My last race, which also happened to be the Manchester Half

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New beginnings…

July 3, 2021July 5, 2021
Claire-A-Slade

3rd July 2021 Next week is a big week.  I’m heading back to work on Monday after 18 months off, bar a somewhat abortive 3-week stint last summer.  I will be starting in a new surgery – a fresh start

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The complexity of “good news”…

March 30, 2021April 9, 2021
Claire-A-Slade

30th March 2021 Good news…reason to celebrate I had my first surveillance scope since my diagnosis, yesterday.  Thankfully it was clear.  Big relief.  Good news.  Great news.  Obviously, it is better than the alternative, but… “Good news” is, I think,

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Sleep, survival & surrender…

October 5, 2020April 9, 2021
Claire-A-Slade

5th October 2020 So here I am, 10 and a half months post diagnosis, and 2 and a half months since my last blog post.  I returned to work.  It was great to be back with my incredibly supportive colleagues

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Preparing for re-entry…

July 21, 2020April 9, 2021
Claire-A-Slade

21st July 2020 Tomorrow I re-enter the world of work.  Exciting?  Yes.  Daunting?  Absolutely…  In fact I’m terrified.  I left work on the 21st November 2019 with absolutely no idea that it would be 8 months before I stepped back

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Facing the future…

April 29, 2020November 26, 2021
Claire-A-Slade

29th April 2020 I feel like I am currently standing at a cliff edge on a misty day.  Visibility is pretty poor, but … as I stand here, the mist is definitely beginning to clear.  I’m starting to look forward,

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Cancer, guilt & gratitude…

April 15, 2020April 9, 2021
Claire-A-Slade

15th April 2020 Cancer guilt is exhausting and suffocating.  I should say my cancer guilt, as I can only speak for myself.  As with all the emotional responses associated with cancer, the delay in their emergence has really taken me

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Recovery…a long and winding road

April 5, 2020April 9, 2021
Claire-A-Slade

5th April 2020 I finished my latest quilting project this week…my “recovery” quilt.  I’ve made many quilts over the last few years, always for other people.  This one was for me. It’s odd in a way, as I started it

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Permission please to sit on the side line…

March 26, 2020April 9, 2021
Claire-A-Slade

26th March 2020 As the Corona crisis deepens and we brace ourselves for the inevitable storm, it has been hard to ignore the call to arms.  15,000 retired doctors already contacted to re-join the troops.  There is no escape from

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Cancer, coronavirus, “copability”…and bottles

March 19, 2020April 9, 2021
Claire-A-Slade

19th March 2020 I have never really experienced anxiety before and I find it an uncomfortable place to be.  I don’t even think that the anxiety itself was particularly overwhelming (it wasn’t until these last few days…), it is the

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How not to receive your cancer diagnosis…

March 14, 2020July 14, 2022
Claire-A-Slade

14th March 2020 I appreciate I only have myself to blame for how it happened. It was Sunday the 24th November 2019, Sh** Sunday, as it has come to be known. I’d found the mass the previous Monday.  I’d had

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Cancer anger…an ugly beast

March 9, 2020April 9, 2021
Claire-A-Slade

9th March 2020 Do not underestimate the potency of cancer anger. It hit me a month ago and it hit me hard. It came unannounced and floored me.  And I’m still angry. I should have been expecting it.  The whole

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Cancer – the extra dimension

March 4, 2020July 14, 2022
Claire-A-Slade

4th March 2020 So this isn’t where I intended to be!  The last 3 months have been a little interesting it’s fair to say. At 39, I wasn’t expecting to be diagnosed with bowel cancer.  I wasn’t expecting to have

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