As some of my email will not have made sense

When I mention Joe, that is my deliciously, handsome little boy.

On Monday this week I had my first chemo.

Since I sent the first email, I’ve had a sentinel lymph node biopsy which was clear (whoop! whoop!) which means I remain as Stage 2 breast cancer.  It’s all perfectly contained in the left boob, not trundling its way around my body.

The marvellous consultants at Bristol’s Southmead Breast Care Centre had thought I would need to have a mastectomy (only left), but they’ve decided to go back to the lumpectomy option when I’ve completed the seven cycles of chemo (increased from six), rather than the whole shebang of mastectomy – You’ve gotta love ’em, well I do!  I’m holding them to a very little mention they made that they’d still balance me up at and reduce the right at the same time…

My dear, dear Daddy is also on his own personal journey of lymphoma – seems a bit unfair to us to be both going through it at the same time – but at least I know one of the closest people in my life truly understands what I’m going through.