Born into this world as a tiny babe, soft, curious and filled with a knowledgeable soul. You grow and, as you do, you are filled with beliefs about life that may not fit your initial grand vision of life as a soul in a new body. You learn about what to...
I It seems to be more common today than ever before that more family members and friends seem either to be diagnosed with Cancer, or know someone who has been unexpectedly shocked with diagnoses, that Cancer has taken over their bodies. You can be young, old, a mother, father, sister, brother,...
S tories are the thoughts and beliefs that we convince ourselves are truth. We all have stories about the past, the present or the future. They can be about things we should do, what is possible, what other people could do, or who other people are. Stories are generally untested, un-investigated...
My mother, Cath, was diagnosed at the age of 56 with Multiple Myeloma: a rare form of cancer that affects the bones. None of my family knew anything about this weird type of cancer. We didn’t know what it was like and what it was going to do to my...
Cancer as a disease cannot be classed as one of the young or the old, it occurs pretty much to anyone at any time. To illustrate this point, and somewhat as a proxy, we can use the Causes of Death data that is available from The Flowing Data team,...