Author Archives: Jackie Cuffe

A decrease in or disappearance of signs and symptoms of cancer. 2024 marks nearly 3 years… March is always a significant month the month i was diagnosed actually it was my dad’s birthday to be precise. But march is when i get my annual MRI and mammogram. I always feel nervous, quiet, dread as iContinue reading “Remission …”

I am sure that was film… So 2nd of December marked 9 months since the day my world fell apart and I’m now 17 radiotherapy session in and finish treatment on 21st December. So not going to lie the side effects my radiologist listed to me 4 weeks ago meant a very sleepless night beforeContinue reading “9 months later…”

Last treatment hurdle is radiotherapy in order to have this I needed my surgical wounds to heal and to regain full movement of my arm. My breast wound healed no problems my lymph node wound was a different story…. 3 weekly reviews, one week of antibiotics, a week of a leaking wound I managed toContinue reading “The final hurdle 🥳🥳”

So my last blog was me waiting patiently for what felt like forever for my surgery after the whole house went down with Covid!! The news of Sarah Harding passing with the same disease was devasting and affected me more than I thought it would. The day of surgery came and I had so manyContinue reading “Count to 5 for me…. 1…2…3…………”

From the very beginning I seem to be walking thru sludge I have never done anything easily so why should finishing chemo be easy…… Post chemo I didn’t feel at my worst I was quite lucky a few days in bed then I managed to pull on my big girl pants and enjoy the summerContinue reading “Covid or cancer”

March the 25th i started my chemotherapy journey…. 15 chemo bags, 30 blood tests, 6 scans, 23 picc line dressing changes, 3 admissions into hospital, and 18 syringes of EC chemo on the 6th of August I finished!! When someone says the word ‘cancer’ I agree it’s a pretty terrifying word. Having now gone throughContinue reading “‘This is me….’”

Well as true to its word 3 weeks ago I had my first EC chemo treatment. It consisted of 3 red syringes and 3 clear syringes I immediately felt sick and got quite emotional. My chemo nurse came to see me and talked through everything side effects and how i should expect to feel eachContinue reading “‘It doesn’t feel like home mummy’”

Don’t ask me how and by some miracle I only missed 2 rounds of chemo I have just completed 12 weeks of treatment… Its been the hardest 12 weeks of my life and when the infusion beeped to tell me it had finished I did have a cry. Relief, pride, achievement, self worth all myContinue reading “Round 12…. I did it!!”

‘cycle 4 day 1’ now if u had said that to me 10 weeks ago I never would of imagined getting this far. Tomorrow is the start of my last weekly cycle so 2 bags to endure followed by 2 weeks of weekly one bags. I’ve not been sleeping that great and my anxiety levelsContinue reading “Cycle 4!!”

Accepting that you will have days when you do not feel positive is part of coping with cancer. After missing round 7 and having a weeks break I felt a bit more like ‘normal me’ doing the school run, running errands, precious time with Jaycie even with the slight prickly neuropathy pains in my handsContinue reading “Mood swings, hot flushes and being mumma…”