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Sometimes shitola is a gift
Ya never know how the shitola of the past becomes one’s best asset… when the chemo stops working I’ll be leaving my breathing machine off, taking a muscle relaxant and a few sleeping pills with a sake...
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CHEMO LOVE by Donna Williams
I was 47 years old in June 2011 when I found a lump in my left breast. It was the size of an almond and I felt certain it was just another cyst like the other two lumps which had already made homes in...
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Cancer, Chemo and Mythbusting
I am not a doctor, just a layperson with metastatic breast cancer. These are my experiences and views as someone who has had mundane completely treatable cancers, who has had early treatable cancerous...
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The Language Of Death
As a person with metastatic breast cancer facing what is expected to be my last year with a body, I wanted to explore the language surrounding death, dying and end of life… Are we ‘the body’… do we...
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Facing death with positivity
Facing death… I keep hearing how brave, how positive I am. But is it all about positivity, or is it broader? I’ve been trying to understand what has shaped my perspective to see if it really all came...
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On living, dying and metastatic breast cancer
I was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in Sept 2016. It had metastasised to my liver with innumerable tumors and no chance at resection. This is expected to most likely be my last year. I have...
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Dying With Dignity – nothing about us without us
Before anyone self righteously takes a stand against right to a dignified death, keep in mind dying with dignity has strong clear guidelines… the person must have no more than 6 mths to live and this...
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When grieving the loss of someone who is more than ‘just a partner’
Chris and I have been more than husband and wife, more than lovers, more than family to each other…. we have been incredible best pals. We have spent 17 years in each other’s company and we are still...
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Vale Polly Samuel (aka ‘Donna Williams’) 1963-2017
Hello world, Chris Samuel here, Polly’s husband. It’s my sad duty to tell you that my beautiful wife, Polly Samuel, died on the night of Saturday 22nd April 2017. She went as she wished, with no pain...
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Memorial speech by Chris Samuel, Polly’s husband
This is the tribute that I, Chris Samuel, read at my wife Polly’s memorial recently. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. So ends the poem by Welsh poet...
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