Looking for a non-surgical facial aesthetic intervention? A smile will cover it and doesn't cost a penny!

Some days you've got to just go into full Terminator mode. Immunotherapy revs up your immune response to help your body find and attack more cancer cells. I can literally feel this in my body the first few days after my treatment. I can feel it fighting, it tingles!

Job for today: give someone or yourself that butterflies moment! I get that when walking in my favourite places. Go on, treat yourself!

Always check. Always question. Always be whip smart. That was something I had to do yesterday during treatment. It reminded me of the time a nurse administered ear drops to a patient’s backside, having read a doctor’s abbreviated instruction note on the prescription: “place in R…

Plan for today: multiple consecutive lip corner raises. If that requires some heavy lifting then keep at it and try just a few reps!

When nursing care is at its best you feel it and it extends far beyond compassion, concern and kindness. It's a human relationship that promotes better health outcomes. Find out more in my blog below.
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Spa treatment 51 is in the bag and I'm now home! I had to pull up a couple of nurses for not using a filter on my infusion, which was rectified forthwith but all went swimmingly otherwise! Stay on the ball folks.

If it looks like a smile, moves like a smile, and laughs like a smile, then it's probably a smile! Have a great week with lots of smiles!

I never go into a treatment without first visualising its success. I go through step-by-step what will happen and I see myself leaving the ward smiling. This will happen, just watch me!

With my 51st treatment tomorrow afternoon, now is not the time to take my foot off the gas! A walk in the rain is just the job to get the job done.

You don't have to live at high altitude to live at high altitude! Elevate yourself, climb a bit higher mentally and feel on top of the world. No ropes required.

'It is what it is'
Cancer cannot be reduced to a thought terminating cliché.
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Live a life to die for.

What does good cancer citizenship look like? Rather than be limited by my cancer and its side-effects, I ask what it is I can still do within these limits by helping others and enriching lives.
Find out more in my blog below!
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Make your concave curve an upward sloping one - smile!

When you are emotionally overloaded, does your mental carabiner protect you when you fall?
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The acme of optimism is happiness and to reach it we need oxygen tanks of positivity, ropes of hope and carabiners of courage.

I am always expecting something extraordinary to turn up. Find out why in my blog below.
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See the value of every moment. Bank it. Save it. Savour it.

How would you process being told that you had around 2 months to live? My blog below explains what I did.
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