One year on from writing my first ever article, what cancer has taught me, an awful lot has changed. For one I no longer have cancer, hurrah! For two I no longer have a womb, boo! Even though my time with cancer is done (fingers fucking crossed) it is not something that has left my [...]
Author: Lydia
I'm Lydia, a 25 year old in Manchester. I had a rare uterine cancer, inflammatory myofibroblastoma. Cat lover, pole fitness enthusiast, and science buff.
6 tips for sex after a hysterectomy
In 2014 I was diagnosed with inflammatory myofibroblastomic tumours in my uterus (a rare form of womb cancer). In June this year I had a total hysterectomy, and have been recovering my life ever since. Before my hysterectomy I was put on a hormone treatment (zoladex) for 4 months which was unfortunately unsuccessful. This plummeted [...]
My year of cancer in gifs
Today is my first cancerversary. What does that even mean?! I don't know. It certainly isn't an event to celebrate, maybe to commiserate? Probably not either. I don't know what it is, but it is definitely a thing. So to mark this something I have put together a timeline of this wretched past 12 months, [...]
Gynaecological Cancer Awareness Month: Round Up wk 4
#Day22 of #MyGynaeMonth. Cancer ain't all bad, WHAT!?!? What, you can't say that! Well it's true, it gave me a new state of mind which can be summed up beautifully by two very simple words: fuck it. If it's not going to kill me then who cares! I've never been a huge worrier but I certainly used [...]
Gynaecological Cancer Awareness Month Round Up- wk 3
#Day15 of #MyGynaeMonth is all about going out for dinner and drinks with the best gals and there is lots of talk about health, including gynae health, GO TEAM! They had a go at drawing the female reproductive system, well done to Megan for getting full marks, she obviously knows her insides! Here are the doodles we did of [...]
Gynaecological Cancer Awareness Month Round Up- wk 2
#Day8 and I’m catching up on #MyGynaeMonth posts because I have been busy at Bestival. To break up the dreary cancer chat I thought I would posts something uplifting, as right now I’m feeling good. Sometimes life after cancer is just life. Every now and then (even if it's rare) I get a whole day [...]
Gynaecological Cancer Awareness Month- Round up, wk 1
#Day1 marks the start of Gynaecological Cancer Awareness Month. This September to help raise awareness of gynae cancers I will be posting every day with a way womb cancer has affected me. I will reflect on the symptoms I suffered, how cancer and infertility has affected me, and the late affects I am still suffering [...]
Dating with the Big C, pt 1
Dating is a bit of a minefield at the best of times, so add cancer to the mix and it can be a really scary place. There are so many extra questions and pressures if you are trying to date with a hidden/chronic illness. Do you tell them you have/ had cancer? When do you [...]
Coping with fatigue
Fatigue is a common issue faced by people living through and after cancer. I've not heard of a treatment out there that doesn't cause fatigue. Along with the emotional weight carried from a diagnosis, you are pretty much guaranteed to suffer through it at one time or another. Fatigue and tiredness are commonly mistaken, but [...]
An open letter to politicians; make cancer support a priority
An open letter to all political leaders and local MPs, I am a 24 year old with a rare form of endometrial cancer, the last six months of my life has been a whirlwind but until now I have managed to hold down my full time job. Next week I will regrettably be going into [...]
Young, Wild and Fibroblastic 