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Leah Hardy

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3 years

Spending per head on healthcare in Australia in 2019 was £4184. In the UK it was £2647. The G7 average was £3523. Bear this in mind next time someone says we have an NHS problem. What we have is a government problem.

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2 years

My timeline is crammed with advice to keep damp towels/clothes/sheets (!) etc etc ‘in the freezer’. Do these people live in a branch of Iceland? I’ve barely got room for a packet of fishcakes, some leftovers, a box of Soleros and an ice cube tray.

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2 months

Rebecca Adlington seems such a lovely person as well as an astonishing athlete . I hate thinking how she was insulted and bullied by the vile Frankie Boyle who thought he had the right to attack her for her appearance. What is it with male comedians & female athletes?

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1 month

Nadine ‘ostrich anus’ Dorries says what?

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NADINE DORRIES: I don't begrudge anyone a break, but Angela Rayner's behaviour demeans her office

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5 months

26 wines tasted (and drunk!) over 26 miles. Nearly all guessed correctly. Finished in under five hours. Champagne at the finish line. Raised over £13k (so far) for Sobell House hospice in the name of his late mum. A BRITISH HERO!

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5 months

confused as to why this man isn’t on every morning news segment going

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6 months

MPs earn £90k a year. Mark Menzies is 52 has been an MP for 14years. He has no dependents. Yet he couldn’t lay his hands on £5k. What can he have been spending his money on?

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3 years

A female former police officer on @BBCRadio4 has just said that she didn’t report a serious issue with a male officer because she knew that women who did were deliberately abandoned in dangerous & violent situations as revenge.

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1 year

So many women in my mentions have been forced to endure agonising gynae procedures without anaesthesia. And have been told ‘it doesn’t hurt’ by male doctors. I’ve experienced the same. What the hell is going on? Why is this happening? #Misogyny

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2 years

I’m still processing today’s appointment with my oncologist. She didn’t exactly say I was cured - that would be irresponsible - but she did say that my response to treatment is ‘highly correlated with a cure’. As I say, still processing. But thank you science, and thank you NHS.

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29 days

I don't believe her. If Elle Macpherson had DCIS (intraductal breast cancer or stage 0) the standard treatment is lumpectomy, which she had. Survival after surgery is 98% at 10 yrs. Chemotherapy is not offered, let alone by 32 doctors!

Elle Macpherson's secret cancer battle - why she refused chemotherapy

The Australian model, 60, revealed in her upcoming memoir that she took a holistic approach to her illness - going against the advice of 32 doctors and the wishes of her family.

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4 months

Poor Michael Mosley. So near yet so far. Feeling for his wife and children today. Must be agony. Everyone I know who worked with him or interviewed him said he was a clever, kind, Tiggerish person.

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3 years

Female officers married to policemen did not report domestic violence for the same reason.

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2 years

Had to give up on the chemo mullet - first short haircut for about 40 years! Thank you to @HairRebornUK - an amazing charity offering free haircuts to people suffering cancer-related hair loss.

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1 year

Promised myself I wouldn’t buy any more dresses after a big bank holiday sort out which revealed I have a bit of a problem. But a vintage YSL polka dot silk dress for £35 in a charity shop? Rude not to.

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1 year

It’s so nice that the Kate Spade company donates unsold stock to Mind charity shops in memory of Kate, who took her own life. I just bought this beautiful, glittery thing

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2 years

@LeanneHPatrick This man should be nowhere near patients. As a breast cancer patient these tweets make me feel quite panicky @theRCN

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28 days

Editors, please don’t commission uncritical ‘I treated my cancer with herbs like Elle’ pieces. Encouraging women to refuse proper medical treatment for cancer will kill them.

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4 months

@jemmaforte @BenWallace70 @MJtweetings My 19-year-old is at work right now, as she was yesterday. She is also at university, was a police cadet & gives blood. The Tory government is packed with liars & criminals including rapists & has given away my money to Michelle Mone. She doesn't need lectures from that mob.

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2 months

She was 19. A kid. My daughter’s age, in fact. Winning gold medals. Literally the best in the words and an inadequate misogynist thinks it’s funny to insult her in ways that cause deep hurt. And now we have another comedian calling Simone Biles - of all people! - ‘manly’. Ugh.

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3 years

This man is a professor at the University of Nottingham. Views like this are part of the obsession with so-called ‘normal birth’ which we are now seeing can be harmful

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10 months

Fortnums all done up like an advent calendar for Christmas. So pretty!

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2 months

Awaits the usual replies. ‘It’s just a joke’ ‘Don’t you have a sense of humour you stupid bitch?’ Ad infinitum. Ah well. Misogynists gonna misogynist.

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3 years

Feels so good to be back in the chemo suite. Had a two week delay due to what I’m convinced was a false positive PCR Covid test & it made me anxious. Now back to attacking this thing!

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4 months

I know it’s pointless being cross about the National Service ‘plan’, but I am angry that my kids’ generation is being lectured on decency by this bunch of lying, corrupt, criminal, sexually predatory & or incontinent bunch of shysters.

All the Tories embroiled in sexual misconduct allegations since 2019 | ITV News

Chris Pincher is just the latest Conservative MP in a growing list who have been accused of sexual misconduct. | ITV National News

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2 years

Strictly magic has made me feel sentimental towards Matt Goss. He was sweet tonight - and his dancing improved a lot, didn’t it?

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3 years

Coming home from 8 hours in hospital, chemo and the dreaded cold cap to husband’s moussaka and apple crumble makes it almost all better.

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2 years

@AngelaRayner Wonderful! My mum grew up in an East End tenement and yet trained to be a ballet dancer. At 82, she is still performing in operas at the Royal Opera House. Art is for everyone.

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2 years

@HRWright I knew it. The superpower of middle age

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3 years

The view that women are fundamentally irresponsible snd need to be taught to to care for their children by being left in pain is so unacceptable that I can’t really process it.

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2 years

Been processing this today as I was caught by surprise. Went to boob clinic for a routine appointment & was DISCHARGED! Told to go & live my life. I’m still having Phesgo (immunotherapy) until the end of November & I’m under the care of plastics but a step closer to the end! 💪🙏

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2 months

@fliceverett Paedophile gets 2.5 years for his THIRD conviction for child abuse images

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6 months

Poor, poor woman dealing with this while vile social media ghouls gleefully spread disgusting lies about her. I hope they feel extremely ashamed of themselves.

Politics UK

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6 months

🚨 BREAKING: Kate Middleton has cancer - Kensington Palace

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29 days

Massively irresponsible reporting. Chemotherapy is NOT 'conventional' treatment for stage 0 DCIS. Lumpectomy - which Elle Macpherson had - is the 'conventional' treatment and 10yr survival is 98% even without radiotherapy.

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@SkyNewsAust

29 days

Supermodel Elle Macpherson has publicly revealed she secretly battled breast cancer seven years ago and opted against conventional chemotherapy to treat the disease.

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2 years

@HRWright Was this lady over 50, by any chance?

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4 months

As someone who has had extensive NHS cancer treatment recently I can tell you that we owe a deep debt of gratitude to immigrants. Including a brilliant German head of oncology, the superbly competent, kind and capable matron of the chemo ward & a brilliant asian microsurgeon. 🙏

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4 months

I honestly don’t care. It’s a stupid gotcha. I don’t want a ‘personality’. I want someone intelligent, capable, determined, who isn’t going to conscript my kids, give all our money to Michelle Mone and destroy the NHS.

Jon Sopel

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4 months

Kudos to @SkyNews and @BethRigby . This is most revealing thing I've seen this election, epitomised by this question. "How can you convince me Sir Keir Starmer you're not robotic?" Gives robotic answer repeating CPS, N Ireland police background and coming into politics late

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3 years

Today I learned that ALL the lymph nodes removed from my underarm (9 of ‘em) were cancerous before treatment. Not only had the cancer not spread but all were clear afterwards. I had a very near miss. Dodged a bullet etc. Feel very lucky and grateful right now. #breastcancer

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4 months

The sight of very old men still crying for their lost teenage friends at the D Day commemorations is so very moving.

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2 years

@DominicBuxton She has sold 15 million albums, won two Grammy Awards, two MTV awards and with “I Try,” had one of the most successful singles of all time. So let's have less of the mediocre white man calling a gifted black woman 'sub-par'.

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2 years

Exactly one year today since I found out that my newly diagnosed breast cancer hadn’t spread and I could start potentially curative treatment. I went straight to yoga and was VERY happy.

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1 year

Don’t attack the Times for printing Dr Peter Hilton’s appalling letter. Even after the Times lead on the sex assaults story, people were still denying sexual harassment - even in theatre - happened. This letter illustrates perfectly the attitudes that make the behaviour possible

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3 years

A medical culture that thinks that women should suffer unwanted pain ‘for their own good’ is not a healthy one.

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3 years

@glosswitch Lammy has missed out an important word from his statement. It’s an epidemic of MALE violence against women and girls. Deliberately or does he simply not see it?

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2 years

Fantastising about carrying scissors everywhere to snip the tailor's stitches on coat vents. Why do people leave them? It irritates me to an irrational degree, I know.

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3 years

I’m not sure that the Tory heartlands will be as delighted as Dorries thinks to lose The Archers. Antiques Roadshow, The Repair Shop and Test Match Special.

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3 years

90% of the most seriously ill in hospital with Covid are - guess what? - unvaccinated. I finish chemo in mid-Jan & will then need complex cancer surgery. If beds are full of unvaccinated people, I may not get my surgery. I don’t want to have to worry about this.

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2 years

@shaheenkhazali You are kidding me! Not a single woman on a panel for a disease that only affects women? Seriously?

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3 years

Don’t normally rejoice at seeing my roots but when it shows my hair is growing, that’s pretty fantastic. You don’t have to lose your hair just because you need chemo. #scalpcooling #chemohair #nhs @RichPaxman

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1 year

Teen girl off to university to study History in Sept. Bursting with happiness & pride, not least because she had to cope with me being diagnosed with cancer right at the start of her A levels.

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2 years

Happy day! It’s first anniversary of my cancer diagnosis. That day I walked the dog and went out for pizza with my family. Plan to do exactly the same today EXCEPT WITHOUT THE CANCER! 🥂🎉

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2 months

@msloobylou My daughter didn’t get her expected results (to be fair, I was diagnosed with cancer the week she started A levels) but she sorted everything out entirely by herself via clearing and within two hours or so of getting her results had a place to study history, which she’s loving

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5 months

Thoroughly depressing - upsetting even - to see women in dresses so restrictive they cannot climb stairs & so tight they cannot breathe. KK gasping like an overheated pug in this. Freakshow stuff.

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Hard to believe Americans once put people on the moon.

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2 months

@jonlis1 @MoloneyTomm Edwards aside, this is a notorious case. Not only was the female police chief convicted despite the image being entirely unsolicited, nobody involved had a sexual interest in children

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20 days

If you didn’t see Jodie Comer in Prima Facie on stage or during the initial cinema run, it’s back and I cannot recommend it enough. It’s a breathtaking tour de force. Absolutely astonishing.

National Theatre Live | Official website: Find tickets

Find tickets at your local cinema for National Theatre Live screenings. Search according to your location and see what's on.

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1 year

I want anyone involved in women’s healthcare, particularly gynaecology, to look at my mentions over the last few days and have a serious think about how they practice.

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3 years

A friend just asked me how I felt about tomorrow's chemo. I replied that I wouldn't miss it for the world, which is sort of a joke, but not a joke. I have three more chances to destroy my cancer and I am extremely keen to do that. So in a way I'm excited & looking forward to it.

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3 years

Hair still hanging on despite 4 cycles of the most hair-toxic chemo 🙏 to scalp cooling @RichPaxman @curlypaxo . It’s not always easy but I recommend it. Now off to yoga! #breastcancer #chemo #chemohair

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2 years

Finally fought off the weight I gained during cancer treatment. And it has been a fight! Now just a smidge under what I weighed in Sept 2021. Need to keep it down for health inc reducing effects of lymphoedema. Do feel a bit triumphant tbh

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2 years

My daughter is keen to attend university open days. A return train ticket to one Northern university from London in October is a minimum of £140. How can ordinary people afford this? This is just ONE trip.

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2 years

Happy birthday to me! Happy birthday to me! Thank you NHS! Happy birthday to meeee!

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3 years

Am half-way though chemo as of this evening. 4 done, 4 to go. Feels like a good milestone. Am celebrating with a bowl of lentil dhal, a hot bath and ginger tea. Oh and booking to see The Nutcracker @LondonColiseum @ENBallet with my daughter & mum at Christmas.

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2 years

It's sunny, it's the weekend, side effects from my bisphonate infusion have worn off, I've finished a bit of work and I'm going to take a month off everything to get really fit and well again. I feel like I'm putting cancer in my past, and that's a very good feeling indeed.

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3 years

Just did a workout update at the gym. I’ve improved my strength by over 20% since last January despite being on chemo since September. I am quite impressed by myself.

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2 years

These woman are breathtakingly brave

Shayan Sardarizadeh

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2 years

In Kerman's Azadi Square tonight, a woman sits on top of a utility box, takes off her headscarf and cuts her hair as people chant "death to the dictator" on the fifth night of protests in Iran over the death of #MahsaAmini in custody of morality police.

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2 years

I've just heard that some advice I gave a fellow breast cancer patient means that the asked for a second opinion and are now getting a treatment they were originally told they couldn't have. It will reduce their risk of recurrence and I am absolutely delighted!

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3 years

Fifth chemo completed yesterday. #docetaxel & #HER2positive targeted therapies started. Barre class DONE. Full of steroids & feeling POWERFUL. #breastcancer

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2 years

@cazzerbooth I suspect the same type of personality drives entrepreneurial wealth-seeking and power/status-seeking. I’m with you re the beach but that’s prob why I’m very much not rich or powerful

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2 months

Deeply troubling interview with a GP with 25 years' experience who is at breaking point. The system is on its knees and if we aren't careful, general practice will go the same way as dentistry. Also, people, please stop shouting and swearing at doctors and receptionists.

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2 years

Yes, Olivia Newton-John liked treatments I don’t believe in eg acupuncture & homeopathy. But she did NOT reject medical treatment. She pressed for a biopsy on the lump she found despite a clear mammogram. She had immediate surgery, 9 mos of chemo &, later, photon radiotherapy.

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2 years

Here we go. Radiotherapy #9 . Six more to go. Nearly there!

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1 year

@babylossmummy @Sajhawkins1 There is something very wrong In midwifery

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5 months

Would a doctor really tell a woman she is pregnant in front of her partner without her consent? #thearchers

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1 year

@drjoearrowsmith Hysteroscopy is torture. You will never find out, but please take it from me and thousands of other women.

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1 year

@BlondiieMama It definitely is NOT. It's a brutal procedure. I had a woman doctor who rolled her eyes and huffed at me when I said no more and meant it. She was trying to carry on even though I said no!

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4 months

@glosswitch Hens peck other hens so let’s put foxes in the hen house.

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2 years

@daisy_haggard Aww! Once on a ferry, I saw a boy of a similar age look around the onboard shop and say, in tones dripping with contempt, 'this is not a BOAT!'. It's now a family catchphrase for extreme disappointment.

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3 years

I’ve been informed that he has now retired.

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2 months

@lickedspoon A horrible man. His daughter is 20. I wonder how he’d feel if a man treated her like that. I hope he’d not find it funny.

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No no no no no! I’m an oncology patient and it’s terrifying to think of cancer patients being diagnosed and having treatment planned by an unqualified non-medical with zero experience! Horrific.

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@geshNHS remove this job advert immediately! THIS IS NOT SAFE FOR CANCER PATIENTS! No experience necessary in oncology ? What local medical training and exams would a PA have to undergo to allow them to do this work ? Where is the local training plan? @ClinOncDoc @parthaskar

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2 months

@ColletteWalsh Totally agree. She dresses beautifully and understands what colours suit her.

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6 months

Saw the Sargent & fashion exhibition at the Tate and cannot recommend it enough. The portraits of women in particular are so lively you expect them to step out of the frame and talk to you. Sargent obviously understood and liked women.

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6 months

@chitty_will Imports from Columbia?

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3 years

Quick tip if you know someone with a serious illness like cancer. A friendly message with no obligation to reply is the best gift.

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3 years

I wrote this to support the amazing charity @futuredreamss . But it also includes my diagnosis story & how I’ve kept at least some of my hair during chemo. Now going back to bed with my cold 😩 🤧. #breastcancer #scalpcooling #breastcancerawareness #chemo

Why should I stop caring about my looks just because I have cancer?

Leah Hardy is grateful for the heroic NHS staff at London's King's College Hospital who've rushed to save her life. Beauty writer explains her desire to act 'normal' throughout her cancer treatment.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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3 years

@SkyScottBeasley No kerfuffle

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3 years

A good thing about my cancer diagnosis is that I now focus more on things that I enjoy & which make me happy, rather than things I have felt obliged to do. Example: tea with buttered toast and marmalade is my favourite breakfast - not eg a green smoothie.

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3 years

Yesterday morning I was in an MRI machine tracking the progress of my chemo. This morning I was in the yoga studio. I know which I prefer but am grateful for both.

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2 years

Anyway, I’m on the chemo ward with lovely nurses about to give me another dose of Phesgo immunotherapy, for which I’m incredibly grateful. All hail science but cancer patients aren’t just receptacles for drugs. We are people too.

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3 years

I just want to say again how utterly incredible my #NHS #breastcancer care has been. From first GP appointment to first chemo was 28 days. In that time I had multiple scans inc MRI, nuclear bone scan, ultrasounds, CT scan, case conferences & tumour genetic testing. Gold standard.

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3 years

@SkyScottBeasley Still not much kerfuffle

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@dieworkwear Oh Gary!

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2 years

@bindelj Ha ha ha! Was driving to hospital and had to turn it off as I was afraid it would skew my blood pressure results!

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1 year

Blimey. Amanda Abbington on #Strictly was amazing. That’s my vote sorted

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2 years

This is the worst magazine cover I think I’ve ever seen.

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3 years

Small sadness of having cancer. Can never give blood again. My wonderful daughter will step up to take my place next year when she turns 17. Very proud of her.

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2 years

All reddy (geddit?) on this sunny day for my very last radiotherapy treatment! Thank you #NHS & particularly the amazingly patient and always cheerful & kind radiography team @GSTTnhs who greet every patient with a smile. #breastcancer

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2 years

When you have cancer, people can be uncomfortable if you express sadness about how it can, frankly, wreck your looks. I think it’s regarded as ingratitude. But as Bowel Babe Deborah James showed, putting on a brave and glamorous face can be an act of defiance & courage.

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2 years

Breast cancer is not caused by stress. And being positive makes no difference to outcomes either.

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2 years

Things people (understandably) don't know about breast cancer. 1. A tumour in the breast can't kill you. Only cancer that has spread to other organs (metastatic) can kill you. cont...

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@ThatKerryHudson @JaneSymons1 When I was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer last year, and I was convinced it had already spread & I was going to die, my consultant said ‘we intend to cure you’ & ‘I don’t think it will be as bad as you think’. I held onto to those phrases like life rafts

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