Cancer, with a smile

Falling ill did not stop me
deciding to laugh anyway.

Breast cancer was found in the middle of training for the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge. Surgery, treatment, and the 19 pieces that led back to the start line — read them in order.

The diary

  1. — A malignant cancer, arriving in the middle of the challenge
  2. Vol1 Cancer, with a smile — vol. 1: this diary begins
  3. Vol2 Cancer, with a smile — vol. 2: never ignore a bad feeling about your doctor
  4. Vol3 Cancer, with a smile — vol. 3: it was not neuralgia, it was cancer
  5. Vol4 Cancer, with a smile — vol. 4: back for the post-operative tests
  6. Vol5 Cancer, with a smile — vol. 5: the day I was admitted
  7. Vol6 Cancer, with a smile — vol. 6: a conversation with God under anaesthetic
  8. Vol7 Cancer, with a smile — vol. 7: easing the shoulders after a mastectomy
  9. Vol8 Cancer, with a smile — vol. 8: moving and working are not the same thing
  10. Vol9 Cancer, with a smile — vol. 9: keloid skin, and why the tape matters
  11. Vol10 Cancer, with a smile — vol. 10: cared for by my son. Letting yourself lean is parenting too
  12. Vol11 Cancer, with a smile — vol. 11: a new chest, a journey to a new me
  13. Vol12 Cancer, with a smile — vol. 12: love and technology, and how breast reconstruction has moved on
  14. Vol13 Cancer, with a smile — vol. 13: courage after breast cancer, and a proportion contest

Afterwards

Newspaper coverage and a proportion contest — what came after the diary.