When you think you have all the time in the world, it’s easy to put things off until another day. As a busy mum of two, I never used to get round to ticking off my life’s to-do list, such as arranging meet-ups with old friends, booking trips to dream destinations or renovating our family home in Lowestoft, Suffolk.
But in April 2018, when I was 36, everything changed when I found a lump in my right breast, and hospital scans brought the horrendous news that I had stage 3 oestrogen receptor-positive breast cancer. I knew then that I couldn’t keep taking life for granted.
After coming to terms with my