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Pen keeps being asked if she's 'back to normal' and the question bugs her..."This week I’ve been snagged by the word ‘normal’, kind of a dull, grey, word at best. Normal doesn’t sound like she’d stay out all night, doing drugs and shagging rand
For loads of people, the first anniversary of their diagnosis is significant and Pen's no different but in considering how she feels about the looming 'cancerversary' she realises there are crumbs of comfort lurking in the shadows..."Of course
Surely, surely, its time to stop banging on about cancer! Although Pen finds herself desperate to draw a line and move on, she can't. The physical and psychological ripples of cancer continue to cause shockwaves through her life as you'll hea
The great bra throwaway is looming but Pen's feeling reluctant..."maybe that turn of the year, spring clean thing, is kicking in. It suddenly feels pressing. But it’s a spikey, gnarly, tear stain of a decision. I’ve never been one for fancy,
"a shaken snow globe is exactly how a cancer diagnosis feels. Suddenly there you are, trapped inside your fragile bubble, desperately trying to remain upright while the soft petals of everything you ever took for granted and thought you knew,
Its a year to the day since Pen first found the lump in her left breast. The moment has her paused, ruminating on just how much life has changed since that singular moment in the shower...Searingly honest, heart-breaking, often sweary and laug
In the aftermath of another point of friction with her daughter, Pen takes a long hard look at herself and comes up with some uncomfortable conclusions about her attitude to conformity.Searingly honest, heart-breaking, often sweary and laugh ou
"As time stretches out between me and the shock of those early diagnosis days, I’m spending more and more time with cancer as a back note, a gentle hum to my day. I cook, I write, I read, I see friends, we laugh, alot. All of these things I do
This was one of the hardest episodes for Pen to write and then read back. None of us likes to admit when we're being a bit of a dick but its only by being honest about ourselves, how we're feeling and perhaps our less appealing qualities, that
One of the hardest things about cancer is that it rips away the sense of having choice over your life, you lose control. In this episode Pen wrestles back control by choosing to take a walk up the hill above the house in search of understandin
A call from an old friend prompts Pen to mull over what we give of ourselves to others. Should she worry about how honest she's been in writing her blog (and by association in this podcast), should she be fearful of the message that being so b
After making her exit from 25 years at the BBC, Pen ruminates on what on earth she'll say if she's asked "what do you do?". We're so hung up on labelling each other and ourselves but what label do you choose as an ex-BBC ex-Radio producing ex-
Time to leave the BBC and push 25 years of her life to one side, but leaving a workplace during lockdown over zoom is distinctly weird..."It feels ever so slightly like attending my own wake. People say lovely, generous, heartfelt things which
E-bike at the ready, Pen contemplates the significance of getting back in the saddle and the cycling alongside David once more. For some reason the associated fear and anxiety prompts memories of a terrifying moment from years earlier..."We fl
Like loads of other people facing the fallout from cancer, Pen has taken some radical decisions about her career, but as the time to leave the BBC draws closer, she contemplates all the years she's spent there, half her life, with mixed emotion
Pen finds a new way of getting active again but she's torn up with the notion that she might be somehow cheating..."Tears pour down my face as David drives us to the shop. I should be excited, elated and a small quiet corner of me is but right
Pen's in a reflective mood, mulling over her response to cancer in her writing..."As human beings we’re better at expressing the difficult, chewy stuff perhaps, than we are at emoting about how great life is and how happy we are. But all those
Pen discovers a good friend has been diagnosed with cancer and it flings her back to when she learned of her own diagnosis..."What did I want when I found out? Who did I turn to? What did I need in those first desperate days and weeks? So when
Pen's daughter asks her one of the toughest of questions and the mental journey it takes us on is both profound and profoundly moving..."‘Where do you want to be scattered when you die?’ B asks out of the blue. It trips me up in more ways than
Romance is on the cards this ep when Pen suddenly becomes what David calls his 'FW', Future Wife. Pen turns into a veritable bridezilla and starts a whirlwind of planning, that bit's easy, the struggle comes when she has to find a suitable dre
The easing of lockdown brings a rush of visitors which finds Pen collapsed in a heap only days before the inevitable return to work but the transition from recovery to the real world isn't smooth... "Work. But not the work I was used to 6 month
With lockdown loosening Pen gets a visit from one of her oldest and closest friends. Its emotional, magical and medicinal all at the same time - a bit like a dram but in human form, the form of Ali!Lump is produced by Adventurous Audio and spo
This week Pen's ruminating on what to say when people keep on insisting on asking her how she is. "David’s niece came to visit the other week and instead of asking me how I was she told me how she’d passed David as she came up the track. They’
Pen becomes concerned about the impact her own moodiness is starting to have on those around her, particularly her daughter, B, but how does Pen bottle and hide all the anger and frustration she's feeling. How does she find a way back to feeli
"What are you most looking forward to?", the question stumps me. I pause midway through de-seeding a pepper, rooting around for an answer but every time I cast ahead into the future I draw a blank. Even trying to slot events and possibilities
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