Wow I didn't realise just how long it had been since my last blog!  After a few quite distressing weeks, having lost an old school friend who was 41, and a few months younger than me, to a heart attack, and then hearing of 6 deaths to cancer in a spell of 7 days (none of whom I knew personally but, I felt I had known some of them, first Donna Summer and Robyn Gibb, both of whom were part of the soundtrack of my youth.  Then a very courageous young lady called Ellie Jeffery whose blog I have been following (she also had secondary breast cancer, another courageous woman with children a similar age to mine, and then two local ladies.  As it has been pointed out to me, you rarely hear of the people who are winning their battles, or are surviving and keeping good health, rather like I am at the moment.  Also had I not been fighting myself I may not have picked up on all six of these sad occurances.  A chat with my dear friend who is a funeral director helped me to put alot of things into perspective, we didn't talk about death or funerals.  Just life in general and how beautifully our kids have grown up and how proud we are of them.
However at the moment I find myself in quite high spirits.  I am due back to work on Monday, just a few hours a day to begin with, and with nerves and trepidation.  It has been five and a half months since I was last working.  I didn't return after the Christmas hols as I began chemo.  Chemo is now all finished and I have also had my first hormone injection and I am taking hormone tablets every day. 
We have started to make a really good dent in the work that needs doing in order to go on the market.  I am going to whisper this bit (could things finally be getting better).   My hair is growing back, my latest appointment has been pushed back, surely they don't do that if it is bad news, and my last letter said that the scan showed that my ovaries appear to be back to their normal size. Another positive surely.  On top of all that it is two weeks until my beautiful cousin comes for a visit, to watch Bad Manners and some great local bands that I am a big fan of.  I think everyone in Somerset should watch Shoot the Moon at least once.  I am going to be a winner, I am not going to let this defeat me.   My baby boy is due to take his driving test soon so hopefully next time I post I will be telling you all how proud of him I am for passing, but we will see. I am more than happy to sit beside him when he drives, he is a good driver, so hopefully it will all go well for him.  Hopefully you will all get another positive post again really soon.

PS.  I have only one short assigment to hand in and year 1 of my degree will be complete, thankfully no re-writes in the first year.  Thank you to all my fab uni friends, work friends and family I really couldn't have coped this year without you.  I am truly lucky to have you all. xxx