
The doctor found a lump. In my breast. ‘It’s unlikely to be cancer,’ she said immediately as I sat in slight shock, my feet swinging over the edge of the examination table like a small child. ‘However I will be referring you straight away.’ And then I went home as if nothing had happened. Except [...]
Read more… As I hold my poorly son’s hand, entwined through cot bars, I’ve been thinking of you. Almost ten, as we unpacked trunks, we found matching pyjamas, a shared birthday, destined to be friends. Then a few weeks later, when noisy footsteps came to get you and roused us from sleep, still their day but the [...]
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