Pick Me Up!

PLANT POWER

Pushing a trolley round the supermarket, I picked up some candles and balloons from the shelf.

‘What else?’ I said to myself, as I studied my shopping list.

With my daughter’s birthday party in just a few days, I was out shopping for some last minute bits.

Ella was turning one and I’d been looking forward to celebrating with our friends and family for weeks now.

Only no matter how hard I tried, I struggled to focus.

In fact, I don’t know how I was carrying on as normal at all.

Just days before, I’d been given the shock of a lifetime.

Sat listening to my doctor at a hospital appointment, I was diagnosed with breast

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