….. (and boob-free, but you can’t have everything …).

In return, I almost immediately noticed that the crippling fatigue, which I had felt for months, and which should have alerted me to the fact that something was wrong, had lifted. (So, everybody, never ignore a lingering tiredness which feels different and inexplicable).

On the same day, I was told that only one lab test remained but it was likely that I would not need chemo – only a couple of weeks’ daily radiation. So that is what I was psyching myself up for when a week later I was informed that I needed neither.

In so many ways so much luckier than so many others.

Today (as on most days, actually) I think of the rising number of much younger women who have to face this diagnosis which for so many different reasons is more life-changing and momentous the younger you are.