Friday 27 April 2012

Newspaper Article 1 March 2012 - Buckinghamshire Examiner

I was asked back in February by Bowel Cancer UK if I would speak to a local reporter for an article she was writing for the Buckinghamshire Examiner. The reporter wanted to include a recent story about a local person who had bowel cancer to include with an article that she was writing to raise the importance of early detection of bowel cancer.
It was run in their 1 March edition but I thought as it is Bowel Cancer Awareness Month I would include it now.

I hoped that I could get just post a link to their website so you could read the article but it appears I did not make it to the website! The reporter sent me a copy by email.  Sorry for the small print - hope you can enlarge it sufficiently to be able to read it.

Trevor Collins who unfortunately died as his cancer was not picked up soon enough was a Director at Ernst & Young and while I did not have the pleasure of meeting him personally. I worked with many people who had and  they could not speak highly of him and were all shocked when they heard the news he had died. The foundation named after him and run by his widow is doing a brilliant job in raising awareness of the early detection of bowel cancer.


April is Bowel Cancer Awareness Month

I found this short but very informative video on the Macmillan website. I encourage you to watch it. The consultant also says that if the spread from the bowel is to the liver only then it can be curative - which is encouraging and backs up what my surgeons in Basingstoke said. 

I found a very interesting paragraph yesterday when I was reading a book that my Reiki practitioner lent me...

"You are a unique individual and statistics never apply to individuals. Nobody knows your particular survival time with your particular kind of cancer - especially once you become active in your own defence. All of the conventional statistics are historical and are most likely to be based on results of people who remained entirely passive using medical treatment alone to combat their cancer"

It summaries my thoughts so well after meeting the oncologist than I have done.

There's me in the middle smiling and happy!


OK so time to have fun for the rest of the day. I am off to a preview of a Charity Plant Sale where I get to reserve plants before the actual sale in a weeks time. Lots of beautiful plants grown newly from seed - you can't but appreciate the wonder of nature in microcosm than that!

Newly germinated and raring to grow!
I just wish the sun would shine - but we still need the rain to make everything green and lush.

Wednesday 25 April 2012

Think this is appropriate for today and the rainy weather!

  
        Learnin' to Dance in the Rain & lovin' it!  
  
I am about to venture outside and will remember to embrace the   rain positively as we need it so badly!!