A big, beautiful, five-year Bah!

It just so happens that I’m in Kurdistan for remission day, which is rather fitting, because this great Kurdish adventure – without doubt the highlight of my training career, and one of the privileges of my time on earth – is exactly the sort of thing that the pre-cancer me may well have been too scared to attempt. (Not that Kurdistan is at all scary, once you get here. But we all know how un-encouraging the press for this part of the world can be.) Later, there will be drinks, and food, and lots and lots of laughing, with my son and my daughter and my friends here. (I will do drinks and food and laughing with my friends in London on Sunday, and with Alan when I get home next Monday.) . Five years of treatment has taught me so much about myself, and has made me grow up, and get real, and trust my heart. But what it has mostly taught me is that it’s OK to reach out, and ask for help, and accept it. . So today, I want to say thank-you. . Thank you, Ned and Joy, my warm and wonderful children, who have been through more than any mother could ask or want, and who have been stronger than they should have needed to be. Don’t think I don’t know what this has cost you; don’t doubt that I will never forget all that you did, and were, during the grim times. . Thank you, Alan, for being so full of love and strength and understanding, and for never forgetting that I am me, a being away from cancer, and in doing so helping me to remember that too. . Thank you Mum and...
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