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Back to Work – slow and steady.. | Detrice Matthews
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A young mum's journey through breast cancer and beyond. Back to Work – slow and steady. July 31, 2015. January 12, 2016. So before the last session of chemo is even underway, the ‘return to work’ thing begins to creep into my thoughts. I have mixed feelings about my return – mainly because my mind jumps from one thing to another so quickly nowadays that concentration. Is sure to be an issue. Will everything be different? Will I even be able to do it? The fatigue (tiredness in it’s purest form) will...
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A young mum's journey through breast cancer and beyond. June 16, 2016. June 16, 2016. Something happened in our community this afternoon that has shocked us all. Something so barbaric and full of hatred that it has made us all stop and think, truly think about how we live our lives. What world am I bringing them up in? Should I be fearful of the hatred that we seem to have in certain sections of our society? Any questions that came to mind were answered with a statement made by Jo’s husband Brendan,.
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A Spoonful of Sugar – if only | Detrice Matthews
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A young mum's journey through breast cancer and beyond. A Spoonful of Sugar – if only. August 14, 2015. January 12, 2016. It is so hard when little ones get poorly. First the crying and the clinginess (not just holding onto your leg – but the full on monkey embrace where you are unable to move for full days and nights). Even harder to deal with when you are ill yourself, or the whole family gets ‘it’. The thought has crossed my mind many a time that the person who invented the pink medicine deserves some...
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A young mum's journey through breast cancer and beyond. Repaying a kindness – always remember. October 8, 2016. October 8, 2016. I am not sure what you call it, but I will try to explain regardless. The most simple words I can find are, well, working class. Do we still cling to the class system? Are we still defined by our parent’s social status? Possibly or possibly not so much nowadays. And yet on an evening when I have fielded questions about who is Grandma’s mummy, and who was her mummy? When you hav...
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August | 2015 | Detrice Matthews
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A young mum's journey through breast cancer and beyond. Looking from the Outside In – just a girl. August 30, 2015. January 12, 2016. So I find myself looking back – strangely at what has just happened to me. It is like I am watching a film about ‘some girl’ I used to know. I am standing looking from the outside in, and it all feels very. Then, one day, everything changed. Something happened to her that meant things would never quite be the same again. So, from outside I find myself asking the question;.
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July | 2015 | Detrice Matthews
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A young mum's journey through breast cancer and beyond. Back to Work – slow and steady. July 31, 2015. January 12, 2016. So before the last session of chemo is even underway, the ‘return to work’ thing begins to creep into my thoughts. I have mixed feelings about my return – mainly because my mind jumps from one thing to another so quickly nowadays that concentration. Is sure to be an issue. Will everything be different? Will I even be able to do it? The fatigue (tiredness in it’s purest form) will...
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My Best Friend’s Wedding – a treasured day | Detrice Matthews
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A young mum's journey through breast cancer and beyond. My Best Friend’s Wedding – a treasured day. July 13, 2015. February 12, 2016. I love my kids, I do but there has to be times when you take advantage of a ‘childless’ weekend and go back to being, well an adult again. Finally the day had arrived of my best friend’s wedding, so we packed the kids off to grandma’s and headed off to celebrate our friend’s big day. It was just what was needed to take my mind off the coming week of treatment. In truth, as...
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10 things I wish someone had told me before I had three kids | Alpine Mummy
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Alpine Papa’s photos. A new life in the middle of nowhere. 10 things I wish someone had told me before I had three kids. May 11, 2015. I have three children. Three whole, noisy, screaming, snotty, beautiful, amazing, still snotty, children. Ha So much for that. I wouldn’t change my life for anything, but there are a few things I wish someone had told me about having three kids, just so I could have had fair warning…. 1 Three changes everything. It’s not just that no one tells you this. They act...8221; T...
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Thank Goodness for Mums – Chemotherapy Days (part 2) | Detrice Matthews
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A young mum's journey through breast cancer and beyond. Thank Goodness for Mums – Chemotherapy Days (part 2). July 24, 2015. January 12, 2016. Apparently my husband thinks that I am the worst patient ever. I think this somewhat annoying trait (for those trying to care for you) I may have inherited from my mother. You see, my sisters and I seem to have this inbuilt determination to. Having said that, you have to know. BUT I did say in the beginning that I would write a. Chemo session # 4. This was also th...
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A Little Bit of What You Fancy Does You Good – food for thought | Detrice Matthews
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A young mum's journey through breast cancer and beyond. A Little Bit of What You Fancy Does You Good – food for thought. August 5, 2015. January 12, 2016. Another thing there seems to be a taboo. On, is talking about all the natural remedies that can be used to keep the body healthy. Now I am not a health obsessed person. I like chocolate and wine, I don’t exercise as much as I should sometimes, and I like the odd take-away. So here are a few things that could. Good for the body]. Something so simple is ...
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