I'm one of those people who feels guilty about everything.

Guilty for buying a new dress instead of giving money to the homeless guy; guilty for reading girlie glossy magazines instead of the newspaper; guilty about spending £2.40 on a coffee when I could make one at home for...

"Five-centimetre soup!" the first radiation therapist calls out to the second radiation therapist.

Five-centimetre soup? I wonder, as I lie on my back on the radiotherapy machine, arms in clamps above my head and breasts fully exposed to the team of three female professionals and one young male medical student.

Woohoo, I'm on the final straight! Of my breast cancer treatment, that is. I've had the surgery, finished my five months of chemo and am almost half-way through radiotherapy. So I should be feeling great, right?

Only, hang on... Why do I feel more depressed than I've felt at...

Breast Cancer Checklist

1. Breast cancer diagnosis? Check.
2. Surgery to remove tumour and surrounding tissue? Check.
3. Six rounds of chemotherapy? Check.
4. 33 rounds of radiotherapy? Three down, 30 to go.
5. Prevention of cancer recurrence for the rest of my life? Big fat question mark.

More than six months after...

Dear Santa,

Being diagnosed with breast cancer at 29 was both the best and the worst thing that ever happened to me. I'm not saying I haven't been through the most difficult six months of my life and I'm certainly not saying it's been easy. But the whole experience has brought me...

Chemotherapy Round Four

16 Oct: After three rounds of FEC, I have my first round of Taxotere - a different drug that causes less nausea but has its own set of side effects. Unfortunately, I get myself all worked up before the session and feel sick...

Chemotherapy Round Two

Aug. 28: My breast-cancer chemotherapy sessions take place once every three weeks so, after I have just about recovered from the exhaustion, sickness, bloatedness and headaches of the first bout, I head in on Tuesday morning to start all over again.

An hour or so...

Ok, let me first make it clear that I am in no way urging you to try these steps at home. Hair loss is one of the things we most commonly associate with cancer and chemotherapy, so I decided to make light of my experience and share with you the...

Before I was diagnosed with breast cancer, I barely knew what chemotherapy was - I didn't even know it was the part of having cancer that makes you go bald. I only really understood after undergoing the first of six chemo cycles under a regimen known as

I'll just come straight out with it: I want them gone. I don't mean I want to be flat-chested forever - I want a full reconstruction, but I want rid of my natural breasts and the risk of getting cancer again.

You see, my cleavage is like a ticking time...

Giant boobie flash mobs, naked celebrity breasts being fondled by celebrity husband hands, bright pink ribbons, boob cupcakes and a sea of pink, pink, pink... If you haven't noticed, it's Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the campaign has never been more 'in your face'.

If...

Let's just say getting breast cancer wasn't exactly top of my Things To Do Before I'm 30 list. Sure, sky-diving (check), living abroad (check), running a marathon (check) and meeting the man of my dreams/getting married (massive uncheck) were up there, but not breast cancer. So it was only natural...

By far the most stressful and upsetting part of having breast cancer at 29 years old was having to make the decision over whether to freeze my eggs. Losing my hair would be temporary, but losing my ability to have children would be permanent and devastating.

The first of my...

Reactions to my breast cancer diagnosis were varied. At the risk of provoking another Brickgate, I thought I had a decent pair of boobs and I was upset about losing half of one of them. But a 28-year-old American male friend immediately looked on the bright side with...

On Friday 22 June, I was diagnosed with breast cancer, aged precisely 29 years, 10 months and 20 days. I'd always wanted to write a blog, but never had anything to blog about. I could have written about my Endless Quest to Find a Man and Not End Up a...