On Christmas day 2025, I felt a bit off and decided to take a pregnancy test. To my delight, it was positive and we were so happy to share the news with the family. Having just recovered from an advanced miscarriage a few months earlier, it was such a blessing to be able to be excited about what the new year would hold for us now. Once the Doctor's were back online after the holidays, we excitedly went in to get everything set up, all the tests done etc. During the appointmen

It's been 10 days since I was diagnosed with invasive and advanced stage breast cancer. I could share a hundred cliche anecdotes about how it's been a rollercoaster, but the truth is I'm not going to focus on literary excellence here, I just want to get it all down. My aim is to firstly get things out of my head, to make sense of all the things that I've been learning (or unlearning..) and writing has always been my way of doing that. A second goal is to make sure I don't was