The Cancer Conveyor Belt...

Just last week I stepped onto the cancer conveyor belt and faced the possibility of my own death. Staring straight into the eyes of one's own mortality was probably the hardest thing I have ever faced. It was the most traumatic five days of my life.

I tumbled off the cancer conveyor belt on Monday with an absolute all clear, I was to be here, I was getting to stay, my life was back on! So many aren't this lucky.

In those five days I rolled out the worse case scenario and what I would need to do in order for my family to not only survive this but to thrive.  

I created a 'To Do' List which included writing the manual 'How To Run The Maddalena-Potter Home' for Rob.  Details of how Christmass and Birthdays are run, down to food likes and dislikes, timetables and school runs.  

Booking them all into a grief counsellor for two years so they could all get the support they would need.

Finding and hiring someone that could take on my role and raise Morgy for me; she's 4 and whilst Dadda is the Biz she would need her Mamma type cuddles and love. 

I started the list of videos I would need to film, Happy Birthday ones throughout the ages to vids about changing bodies, and periods, and sex and love and all those chats I wouldn't get to have.  

Setting up three email accounts for my children and popping the vids in there along with special pics and info for each child so they could access me, my knowledge and mum wisdom whenever they needed a mum hit.  

Only after I had planned how I could make it easier for them, (if that was even possible) did I look at what I could do to survive.  I devoured several books and quickly decided to ditch the dairy and processed and to start really viewing food as my medicine.  

The realisation that we will all have to leave here at some point is a massive slap in the chops. Yes, we all know it but this kind of thing brings it well and truly home!

And then on day 4 I popped.  It all just fell away, the fear and the panic and the 'To Do' Lists and the mental load I didn't even know I had been carrying around with me, just fell away.  I felt clear and calm and really really grateful that I was on the cancer conveyor belt and getting this sorted.  

Those five days made me really see my family like I had never seen them before.  I could see through the moods and the arguments and the day to dayness of life and really really see them, it put everything into perspective.  

Life is short, so very very short and right now I feel so very very alive like I've been given a second chance.  

Everything seems to be in 'High Definition', Morgy's laugh, Lohkii's twinkle in his bright blue mischevious eyes, Jai recounting his latest scooter trick and Rob's gentle but solid touch; I'm soaking up every drop.

I am their everything, their anchor, their whole lives and I feel so very blessed and honoured to have this life. I don't know where I was before, I wasn't 'here' that's for sure. Here is so very 'HERE' if you know what I mean?

So keep checking those bossoms ladies, my signal was the pain, no lumps that I could feel, no redness or weird indentations, just pain.  They found the lump using an ultrasound scan, luckily the biopsy came back all clear.  So check your breasts and if you have any concerns go to the Doc, your life depends on it and your families will thank you for it.

Love and Light, Trish x

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