Fantastic article…what a change it makes to read a celebritiy writing it how it REALLY is…Well Done Ade!!
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I agree. A moving and frank article. Let’s hope for more of them!
Wonderful - Echoed our feelings about this experience.
Thank god there’s a real Intelligent celebrity who is telling it like it is BUT also choosing for this to remain what it is - A private matter.
It’s also somebody other than Kylie for people to make inappropriate comparisons with - If someone else mentions her to me I will literlally SCREAM!
On the flip side of this is an interview in the NoTW today with Bernie Nolan, who says she has beaten cancer and has been given the all clear; also this is just a bit of an interruption in her life.
I do think the press are very guilty of getting celeb BC women to do interviews when they are still really vulnerable, which is why they come out with stuff like this. Not very helpful as everyone handles things in a different way, so I’m sure it makes many women feel inadequate if they don’t feel the same. I’m still thinking about Trisha Goddard going on about how she ran to radiotherapy every morning, got on the table in her trainers, then ran out again. TBH, I was just glad to have a sit down and a nice cuppa at the WRVS caff after every session. My OH went in there for toast and jam every morning whilst he waited for me.
HI, just come out from under the duvet after Chemo No 7, but read this interview last night. totaly agree with everything said. OH and I discussed it this morning, he hasn’t read it yet but I have urged him to, re the feeling helpless etc, hope all this feedback gets back to Ade.
Carol
I am just starting out on this “journey” (another euphemism I hate, like I have a choice to undertake the surgery, drugs, radiotherapy and chemo) and am recovering from surgery with all the rest to come. It was refreshing to read about someone who feels as I do; before I found the lump I felt better than I had done for years, since I found it, I have never felt so bad, both emotionally and physically.
However, this article has enlightened me about what those around me may be feeling - nobody is honest with the sufferer so often, because they don’t to upset them.
Hard in so many ways to read, but so glad I did 
Hi all,
For all those partners out there, here’s the link to BCC’s publication ‘In it together’.
Jo, Facilitator
The Mail on Sunday mag ran an article written by a lady going through the treatment
Sorry- 5 year old hitting the keys!!!
The Mail on Sunday ran an article yesterday written by a lady going through the treatment fot BC. Honest and so true.
My friends who were visiting us read it and had never realised that there were so many se. Everyone knows about sickness and hair loss but as we are all too aware there is a lot more to chemo than that!!!
what a lively article! thanks for sharing.
eva
What a helpful article, in so many ways! I would like to echo the hopes that Ade Edmonson and Jennifer Saunders come along to this forum and see the good results of their honesty, making so many of us feel better and more understood. I also wish them both the very best, as I do everyone on here! (me included!)
Oh dear-- The One Show (BBC1) just showed a feature about someone with sec liver tumours getting approval from her PCT for Avastin. One of the presenters commented to Dawn French (on the sofa tonight) that Jennifer Saunders now has the “all-clear”, to which Dawn replied “I think you have to wait five years for that” . . .
Yes, I just saw that! Hopefully, the message might get through!
In response to Cherubs post on the previous page, I think the News of The World misinterpreted Bernie Nolans comment about being given the “all clear”. She was on This Morning today and what she actually said is that there is no cancer left in her body at the moment but she will have to wait 5 years for the all clear like everybody else.
I thought she was very positive, looked great and gave good advice. Good on her for raising awareness
My husband read the article, paused and then looked straight at me and said ‘couldn’t have said it better myself’. Its the first time since my diagnosis a year ago that he has made such an emotional comment. He has quietly and stoically supported me through everything without so much as a whimper (I do know however that he cried with my daughter on breaking the news to her, but that has been the only time).
Well done Ade, eloquent, honest and heartfelt xx
To the moderators BCC, is there a way for you to pass the positive feedback on to Ade to let him know how well received his comments have been?
What a revelation it was to here from Ade it was an article
straight from the heart and so well written
Took me three attempts before I could read the whole article as the old tears kept getting in the way. It was so wonderful to have someone highlight the negative platitudes to describe this process which I hate but find no alternative - battle, all clear etc. I keep referring family and friends to it in the the hope they’ll get a little more understanding.
Wonderfully written. Thank you
Reeb
Hi, there, I am also passing this article around at the request of my hubbie, who, as cleesyB said, couldn,t have expressed his feelings so well.
Carol
Brilliant article. Will pass on to my OH think he will agree with Ade totally.
Nice response Dawn French!!