So the American right is bashing the NHS and spreading lies about it? I’m not going to discuss and refute their points – this has been done numerous times already – but I am going talk about my experience. So in 2006, at the age of 32 and having just graduated in bioscience, I was [...]
Archive for the ‘Cancer’ Category
In defence of the NHS
Posted in Cancer, Health, tagged Cancer, NHS, treatment on August 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On the difficulty of post-cancer life
Posted in Cancer, Disability, Health, tagged Cancer, Disability, Health, recovery on May 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was diagnosed with breast cancer in September 2006, a couple of months after graduating in bioscience. I had to undergo two years of fairly intensive treatment which was difficult enough at the time, but which has also left me disabled. Where I had expected the long-term side-effects of chemotherapy to evenutally disappear, no such [...]
