It’s just extra stress that no-one needs, you know?! 🫂

Finn’s regular driver for the last 2 years has the exemption set up already, of course

*sigh*

No doubt the email I’ve just sent with up to date info about pick up & drop off times & asking for the details of the new provider will be seen as me overstepping like it was last time 🙃 Oh, and Finn’s school is in a School Street, so new driver will have to apply for an exemption, which takes weeks

Zero lessons learned, clearly. ND kids especially need notice of changes & parents can’t be expected to send their kids off to school in a random taxi with a random person!

Tagging @anyasizer.bsky.social and linking to this thread on X about when this happened last time: x.com/beckyd3rham/...

Being this adorable is tiring work. Hope your hand feels better soon

The 10 year plan includes a wider roll-out of NMHCs so now’s a great time to find out more. Ping me a DM or email me on becky.derham@nhs.net & I’ll forward the invite 😊

It’s great when people delete the post you’ve replied to and make it look like you’re wittering on to yourself, love that 🙃

But at the end of the day she had the same poison running through her veins and it’s not an experience I would wish on anyone

I’m not a royalist by any means, and I’m pretty sure she didn’t have to have the battles I had to get timely and appropriate care. And pretty much every other aspect of her life would have been taken care of, not something the rest of us have the luxury of …

Response and side effects will vary from person to person - what one person might sail through (relatively speaking) might leave another person incapacitated and/or with lifelong impairments. Yes, even just with adjuvant chemo!

I agree with your overall point, but think you might be guilty of a misconception here Jay - in no way is adjuvant chemotherapy “relatively mild”, it’s the same dose whether you have chemo after a successful surgery or before surgery (neoadjuvant)

Some people get worse side effects than others, and I think oncology teams do their best to minimise those, but yeah, in general for most people it’s a pretty grim experience & juices & enemas sound luxurious in comparison!

So heartbreaking for Paloma’s loved ones to see her going through that and being powerless to stop it when it was completely unnecessary 😢

I watched Apple Cider Vinegar on Netflix when I was having a particularly bad chemo week & can totally see why people get suckered into e.g. Gerson when the evidence based option can be so horrific - there are times when I would have volunteered for 100 coffee enemas if I believed they could work!

Thank you x My partner lost his dad a couple of weeks ago too, so he was away looking after his mum until Sunday. I’d really like some boring normality for a bit!