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Mum has just been diagonised with breast cancer, how do i be strong enough for this?

Hi everyone, this is my first ever blog so I hope I do it right. Not sure what we write on here, I am awake and bored and thought I would log in and see how it all works. Spend way too many hours awake in the middle of the night but managed to sleep until 5 this morning so consider that a great nights sleep. Off to have my chemo disconnected today so get some freedom back.

Re-posted from http://www.benbbrave.blogspot.com From an early age I was preoccupied with animals and felt a need to protect them. I took conservation subjects at university, I stopped eating animals, I stopped buying leather. I went to work for the government department charged with protecting Australia's animals. Then I went to help the Chinese look after some of their endangered species. And then I became an endangered species

Re-posted from http://benbbrave.blogspot.com/2011/06/i-have-cancer-not-paper-cut_14.html I recently read an opinion piece in the New York Times about some of the things people who aren't sick say to people who are. You should read the article, but here is a summary of what the author disliked and why. 1. "What can I do to help?" This puts the burden back on the person with cancer to come up with something. 2. "My thoughts are prayers are with you." Overused. 3. "Did you try the mango colonic I recommended?" Something that saved your Uncle Tom won't work on me.

Re-posted from http://www.benbbrave.blogspot.com According to the newspaper The West Australian I'm part of a trend and may not be that special after all.