Oh Gosh is a lifestyle blog written by Emma. I share stories about my life with incurable cancer, travels, DIY projects, interior upgrades and inspiration, and plans for future projects alongside snippets of my life and my loves (mostly my dog).
“After life” planning shouldn’t just be for people who are sick. As I’m often told by people trying to minimise the severity of my cancer, “we could all get hit by a bus tomorrow” and if you were, would anyone know what you wanted to happen?
Despite the fact that 31 people die every day from metastatic breast cancer, we’re the overlooked, underfunded, poor relation of the breast cancer community. And despite the fact that breast cancer gets ‘celebrated’ for the whole of October, secondary breast cancer only gets one day – October 13th – to shout about it.
“There seems to be no shame in asking people if they have children, and even asking why they don’t have children, but oddly, there seems to be a taboo in me responding to the question with “I have terminal…
4 years ago today, a 35-year-old version of me, with beautiful long hair and all the energy in the world, sat in a room and listened as a friendly surgeon and a kind nurse told her she had breast cancer….
I’m not sleeping well right now, but I know this machine and what it’ll tell us is the reason why. Waiting for scan results is hard. But it’s also hard to explain to people that are not in this world………