My Brilliant Boobs

By Sara Jane Harding

MY BRILLIANT BOOBS BY SARA HARDING

 

A must-read book about battling breast cancer one blog at a time

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cybermouse Multimedia
• Release date: Feb 5, 2024
• ISBN: 9781739264383

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MY

BRILLIANT

BOOBS

A Blog-Style

Book

of

MEMOIRS

MEMES

&

MAMMARIES

by

Sara Harding

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Text and Content: © Sara Harding 2024

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DEIRDRE MORAN

‘I now think of my life as before cancer and after cancer. Looking back, I think I had taken my health for granted and getting diagnosed taught me that everything can change in a moment.’

KAT TSANG LI ORR

‘I’ve always gone through life fighting for what I believe in and for my place in this very unfair world.

I took this grit and determination with me through cancer treatment and during that time I learned a lot, some of which challenged every facet of what I felt defined me as a person.’

BRYONY DORAN

‘She’s had the op, all has gone well, and she is in the recovery room. Can I come and collect her?

As I enter the ward I hear Sara and the others laughing. She has lightened the room again but, when she sees me, she bursts into tears.

I have never seen anyone so pleased to see me.’

HELEN BELCOURT

‘Strong women aren’t simply born. We are forged through the challenges of life. With each challenge we grow, mentally and emotionally. We move forward with our head held high and a strength that cannot be denied.

Women who have been through the storm and survived.

We Are Warriors’

NELLIE PITTS

‘Things can go two ways when you get a cancer diagnosis. You can fall on your knees and stay there or fall on your knees, get up and ride a steamroller over it.’

ANDREW NIMMO

‘Sara’s style helped me to manage my emotions during the interview and I am sorry that she has had to overcome the obstacle of being diagnosed with cancer herself.

There is a life with cancer… and it is worth fighting for.’

An Introduction

to

My Blook

(Blog Book)

Beating breast cancer

One blog at a time

*** Warning***

This blog/book/blook contains swear words, rude bits and bodily functions so read with caution

’

Breasts are bloody brilliant!

Norks, baps, knockers, Jesus jugs, fun bags, Devil’s pillows, tits, melons, tatas and Bristols -

We all love them.

But boobs can kill you too!

I once had two brilliant boobs but now I have one and a bit.

This is the tale of how two became one.

I’m Sara Harding (not the one from Girls Aloud as some people think!) As a rock journalist and TV Producer, I’m sharing my story in the hope that this helps anyone affected by cancer. One in two of us will be diagnosed with the Big C, which is what happened to me in July 2019. It’s been the most emotional and life changing experience of my life – it’s been more dramatic than Brexit. Or should I say Breastxit!

Cancer is no laughing matter but humour is definitely a way to get through this horrific disease. So I’ve created this ‘Blook’, which is part diary and part advice. This blog style book is for everyone – for friends, family, colleagues and carers. My mission is to get everyone to check their lumps and bumps, help us all get over the scary bits and laugh at the good times. During my cancer I’ve experienced it all – being sick to Take That in the Co-op, an addiction to Jaffa Cakes, sex, drugs, rock and chemo, encountering Dr Love, X-rated waiting room dramas, a chemo crack up, my great diva moments, scary wig disasters, the shits, the pukes, the hair loss (the good thing is my chin hair fell out!), outrageous operations, creepy dolls, council dinners and crying…

lots of crying…

Me & Chloe on Holibobs

TWO THINGS I KNEW IN MY LIFE;

I had big boobs

I’d had great boobs, not showing off, just great genes, (thanks, Mum). In fact, my nicknames in the past included ‘teeth and tits’, ‘sugar tits’ or ‘couple of lovely large melons’ from the cheeky guys on Slough Market’s fruit ’n’ veg stall.

Yes, I do have ‘a large pair of lovely melons’, (40 DD) but at the end of the day, all boobs are brilliant and we love them - whether they are pear shaped ’uns, the itty bitty titty committee, square shaped sizzlers, Cocker Spaniel’s ears, big nipple norks, fried eggs, pancakes, moobs, bouncing baps or wrinkly breast-fed ’uns. It doesn’t matter what they look like - our breasts rock and there is someone out there who loves what you’ve got - simples!!!

That was why it was such a huge shock to find out I might lose my buns of fun.

It’s scary to face a disease which is trying to kill you as well as trying to take your boobs away but I was staring it right in the face (or should I say, in the right tit with another lesion in the left). I loved life and I wanted to live – tits or no tits – and if I had to get rid of these breasts that have served me well for years and upgrade to a new pair – bring it on.

I was hoping for Pamela Anderson’s double D’s after my operation (and so was my boyfriend!) but if this battle with the Big C meant I lost my breasts, I knew I wouldn’t lose my personality – I would still be me – so I decided to face my battle with headlamps fully on…

D DAY

The Diagnosis that changes your Life…

forever…

I have always been pretty healthy although, as a rock chick and pub lover, I loved my wine (lady petrol as we lovingly call it). But I didn’t smoke, do drugs, take the pill - all things that seem to contribute to the big C. I’ve always exercised and kept upbeat. Yes, I’ve got a cake container/wine belt (big tummy) but I was healthy and happy.

On August 1st 2019, my life was about to change.

I was working for Sir Lenny Henry, who I’d always yearned to work for, and had finally got the opportunity by stalking my great