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Lydia Brain

Gynaecological Cancer Awareness Month Round Up- wk 3

#Day15 of #MyGynaeMonth is all about going out for dinner and drinks with the best gals and there is lots of talk about health and gynae…

Sep 24, 2017

Gynaecological Cancer Awareness Month Round Up- wk 3

Sep 24, 2017

Lydia Brain

Gynaecological Cancer Awareness Month Round Up- wk 2

#Day8 and I’m catching up on #MyGynaeMonth posts because I have been busy at Bestival. To break up the dreary cancer chat I thought I would…

Sep 15, 2017

Gynaecological Cancer Awareness Month Round Up- wk 2

Sep 15, 2017

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Gynaecological Cancer Awareness Month- Round up, wk 1

#Day1 marks the start of Gynaecological Cancer Awareness Month. To help raise awareness I will tweet every day with a way womb cancer has…

Sep 12, 2017

Gynaecological Cancer Awareness Month- Round up, wk 1

Sep 12, 2017

Lydia Brain

Dating with the big C!

Dating is a bit of a minefield at the best of times, so add cancer to the mix and it can be a really scary place.

Aug 20, 2017

Dating with the big C!

Aug 20, 2017

Lydia Brain

Coping with Fatigue

Fatigue is a common issue faced by people living through and after cancer. I’ve not heard of a treatment out there that doesn’t cause…

Aug 4, 2017

Aug 4, 2017

Lydia Brain

An open letter to politicians; make cancer support a priority

An open letter to all political leaders and local MPs,

Jun 2, 2017

Jun 2, 2017

Lydia Brain

Menopause and (24 year old) me

For over three months now I have been menopausal. I was put on Zoladex to try and starve my tumour of oestrogen in hope it would inhibit…

May 11, 2017

Menopause and (24 year old) me

May 11, 2017

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Smashing Sterotypes, the damaging way the media portrays people with cancer

Last week I was on the Victoria Derbyshire show discussing how the media portrays young women with illness. The discussion was following…

Apr 25, 2017

Smashing Sterotypes, the damaging way the media portrays people with cancer

Apr 25, 2017

Lydia Brain

The dark face of depression

Today is a very bad day.

Apr 17, 2017

Apr 17, 2017

Lydia Brain

Self Care: so much more than being healthy

Self-care, not to be mistaken for ‘self-love’ (a common mistake of my male friends) is: ‘actions that individuals take for themselves, on…

Apr 8, 2017

Self Care: so much more than being healthy

Apr 8, 2017

Lydia Brain

Lydia Brain

The musings of a 24 year old with a tumour, trying to change the world, one word at a time. Writer of https://youngwildandfibroblastic.com

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