The Soap Box
60% of what you put onto your skin is absorbed into your bloodstream. A woman put on twelve products a day. Have you ever taken time to look at the ingredients on the products you are putting onto your skin? No, before I began chemotherapy, I didn’t either. It is…
‘I want to get Cancer’ Ad campaign
There was a lot of controversy this week as The Irish Cancer Society released their ‘Get Cancer’ campaign. The first I heard of it was when someone, I actually can’t remember who, was giving out about this ad they had seen. ‘And Bridie, would ya believe they want you to…
Another Christmas
Wow doesn’t time really fly by. So much has happened in a year. I had cancer, I didn’t have cancer, I had cancer again. Now I am well on the road to not having cancer again (fingers and toes crossed). Christmas is always a really odd time I think, even…
More than my illness
An occurrence happened a couple of weeks ago that sparked some kind of inner anger that I didn’t know I held within myself. It woke me up as to how people must perceive me, and any other person with a chronic illness. My mother, myself and a few sisters were…
Staying sane during time on the inside
I had an unexpected stay in hospital a couple of weeks ago. If you had an idea of hell on earth, for me hospital is probably a few notches worse than that. It is just not a nice place to be, no matter how nice the nurses are or how…
It’s only minor
I won’t lie, I can be kind of a mush ball. Add some hormone altering chemicals into the mix and you got yourself a blubbering basket case. I’d like to think that 80% (probably 35%) of the time, the emotions I display are kind, loveable and caring. Queue the laughter…
Dealing with that 5% of the time…
Nearly everybody says to me ‘you are so relaxed about everything. I don’t know what I would do if it happened to me’. In truth 95% of the time I take things in my stride. ‘Oh doc you need to put that tube into my vein and push it towards…
My ‘not really sure what flavour’ curry
Ingredients: Literally whatever veggie you have; today I had: Broccoli Onion Yellow pepper Courgette Peas Sweetcorn Carrot 2 Garlic cloves Lash of rapeseed oil Tin of chopped tomatoes Tin of coconut milk 1 tsp Tumeric 1 tsp Cumin Few chilli flakes/ real chilli Suate the onions and carrots for…
What a week looks like in the plant based world…
A lot of people have asked me to put up examples of my plant based dairy free, meat free daily diet. People always say they could never do the plant based diet because they would find it hard to be prepared but in truth whatever diet you have, fruit and…
Neal’s Yard Remedies Garden Mint and Bergamot Hand Cream
It is always so important to keep moisturised by for people undergoing chemo it is even more important, a huge side effect being dryness at any chance its given. Your hands are so busy; either in water preparing dinner, in the garden, holding a hurl, typing on a keyboard all…