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).
Right now I’m sad. I’m sad and I’m angry. I’m sick and tired of my friends dying and the world not giving a shit. Metastatic breast cancer is the biggest killer of women under 50 and people I know, personally and through social media, are dying – week in week out – of it. But they aren’t famous. They aren’t influencers. So it feels like no-one…
Over the last year I’ve watched friends flourish in ways I know that my life won’t be doing, and I wanted to just talk for a little moment about how hard this is for someone living with incurable cancer. Not so that they stop celebrating, or that people feel sorry for me, but more so that people understand when I retreat from certain situations – I…
Well, this might be a little controversial, but I don’t think I’m going to be saying anything that isn’t true. It’s something I have and still experience regularly in the cancer world – especially when dealing with the press and national brands. It seems that there is a check list that gets run through when they are looking for people to feature. I assume this is so the…
Today is Metastatic breast cancer awareness Day. I’ve posted quite extensively about metastatic breast cancer on instagram today, so I thought it might be worth posting them all here, in case anyone stumbles here and would like the info too! I’m going to be sharing some facts about MBC with you to try and help spread awareness, to spread knowledge of it and to do what…
I’m sure by now you know that October is breast cancer awareness month. It’s the time to paint everything pink. If the adverts are to believed you should be wearing silly pink wigs, t-shirts, feather bowers……Pink this. Pink that. Pink everything. All to beat breast cancer.But this doesn’t sit right for me…… because, for 1. My cancer isn’t pink, or fluffy, or cute. And we shouldn’t…