After finding a pea-sized lump in her breast, Hilary makes a phone call to her local GP. What happens after that changes everything. Set in the backdrop of Covid-19, this a gritty and heartfelt recounting of the loneliness and terror of being a cancer patient during a pandemic.
Using searing honesty, biting humour and some very bad sweary language, Hilary relates the story of the horror of a cancer diagnosis, from the first, terrifying tests through the shock of diagnosis, surgery and then some deeply intimate and unpleasant treatment.
Mid way through her breast cancer treatment she receives a second, even more devastating diagnosis of unrelated cervical cancer which brings her world crashing down around her. Surely two cancers at once is taking the mick?
If you have never had cancer, this book will open your eyes to the reality of what a cancer diagnosis means, while still making you laugh out loud at the madcap tales of a middle aged woman who swears too much and really hasn’t got life as nailed as she’d like the world to think she has.
If you are currently living with cancer, you will find a place that feels familiar, where you are surrounded by friends who really, truly get it. Find out what to expect throughout your treatment plan (definitely not a ‘journey) and how to cope by reaching out to others who know how it feels.
‘You, Me & Oncology’ is the best of humanity at the worst of times. Strong, powerful & steeped with love, this book will touch your heart. It will be sweary too.