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CONFESSIONS OF A CANCER PATIENT

Cancer & the loss of libido: The desire double-bind

4/01/21

​There’s two major themes I have noticed come up with the thousands of cancer battlers I’ve communicated with:
  1. The lingering fatigue that we just can’t shake.
  2. The loss of libido/desire that we just can’t recover.
But there are ways to 'hack the system' so to speak, to increase our 'wanting', our desire.

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Intimacy & cancer: Here’s what over 250 patients have to say.

23/06/2020

​I’m an intimacy and cancer specialist (I can hear inside your head saying “you’re a what?”) and yes, it’s a thing, but only because I made it so! I reached out to others, asking for their thoughts on the topic.

Want to find out what over 250 people impacted with cancer have to say?

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​​Coronavirus tips from a cancer patient.

16/03/2020

As I walked through the supermarket yesterday, a lovely Sunday evening, my eyes were wide in disbelief, staring at the empty food shelves… It hit me, people are panicking.....

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How a simple 2 minutes saved my sex during cancer treatments.

24/06/2019
Sexuality, intimacy & relationships are one of the most common things to suffer during cancer diagnosis and treatments, and I won’t deny that it affected mine. Around never-ending appointments, the endless side-effects and symptoms from chemotherapy, multiple surgeries, radiotherapy and medications, as you would expect, I wasn’t exactly gagging for it. ​
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​The realities of chemo. Uncensored & uncut.

09/04/2019
Quite a few people asked me while on chemo “what is it like? What is it REALLY like?”. All they seemed to know about chemo was nausea and head hair loss, and they were genuinely interested as to what I was experiencing. My response usually was, "indescribably awful”. But it got me thinking. I figured that no one wants to hear the horror stories of cancer, or how hard it is, we all want the happy-endings and to know it’s all okay. But the amount of people who really wanted that dose of reality got me thinking that perhaps more of us than I originally thought want the other side of it all too, the un-fluffy, uncensored, harsh reality.
So …. This is an honest and brief summary of my chemo experience.
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Stage 3, 2 Breasts, 1 Diagnosis.

21/03/2019
I was 36 years old when I heard the words “it seems you have multiple cancers in both breasts and will likely lose both of them”. 
I wasn't as shell shocked as I could have been, thankfully events leading up to this day had me slightly prepared for the 'C-word'.
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