Hi
Rather than getting upset over “celebs” and their cancer. Do as I do and I try not to read or listen to any of their interviews or articles. The last one I read was Sally Webster in Hello magazine, thought hers was better than most, but still a million miles away from most of us in the real world. Her OH took the full 6 months of her chemo off, most of us including me cannot afford to do that. Then she has gone on holiday to Turkey and good luck to her but I cannot afford to go away given the state of our finances. I only read this as it was in the hospital waiting room and I was bored. I saw a brief few seconds of an interview on the internet Bernie Nolan did for ITV. It was good to see she is brave enough to go hairless in public, but I did not watch the interview so cannot comment on the content. If half of what I have read in these post have been attributed to Martina then I feel she has been very irresponsible. But if any of these celebs encourage 1 lady to report a lump then job done.
By the way I don’t read or watch any celeb stories or interviews about any subject, I do not like celeb stories good or bad.
I was very lucky in that my OH was able to take 6 months off to get me through the first lot of chemo, followed by rads. However, this was only because we didn’t have a mortgage and we had some money from the house we sold in Essex to move back to Scotland. We’d started a business 6 weeks prior to my unexpected diagnosis (had already been told I didn’t have cancer), so put everything on hold. OH had recently retrained, so he spent a lot of time studying online tutorials to hone his new skills. I didn’t qualify for any benefits, so if we hadn’t had savings OH would have taken any job going. Thankfully he didn’t have to.
I got really annoyed with Trisha Goddard when she did an interview where she said she ran across the park and into the hospital for rads every day, and that she was annoyed because the time spent there cut into her exercise time. Visualising this made it seem trivial,like one of those ridiculous sanitary towel ads with women rollerskating.
At the end of the day , celebrities are women and whether or not they are a high profile celeb or just Joanne Bloggs , it shows that any woman can get BC, money , lifestyle , does´nt seem to make one iota of difference , but it´s how some of them portray BC that can reflect on the rest of us .
Most of us have the added worry of financial problems , coping with BC and young children without the werewithall to employ a nanny or helper . This is where their lives and ours are so different that there is no comparision with the paths that BC can take .
Some , don´t want the public eye on them at this time , like Jennifer Saunders , they retire away from the limelight and just get on with it .
Unless you never watch the television or buy a newspaper , you cannot get away from today´s “celebs " , I rarely buy mags , as I consider them rubbish , but I have to admit to screwing my head upside down sometimes to read the latest outrage from certain pondlife that are considered “celebrities .”
I know Patti Hansen , wife of Keith Richard had a different cancer, ( bladder ) but her takre on chemo was rather more truthfyul than some …” The chemo is really horrible. It´s so debilitating, so depressing …Cancer is such a friggin monster , It´s radical ."
I think she´s said it all .
However , as someone else rightly said , if just one celeb cooing over how she could run up a mountain , absail down it and go home and cook a three course meal for six , if that makes one woman check herself thinking that if she has got BC it will be an easy ride , well so be it .
Kris