Thank you again for the kind thoughts, cards and flowers. Such lovely, heart-warming gestures that really do help.

I am due to have my second session of chemotherapy this week and hope they change some of my drugs as I was so ill last time I would rather not go through that again if I can help it.

I am really not looking forward to the experience I can tell you, it is rubbish in lots of ways, but it is a means to an end – to get all the cancer cells with the intention of it not returning. So it will be all worth it. Also, lots of people – you know who you are – have been through this and have come out the the end looking good and feeling great. I hope I can be like you!

At the minute I am coming to terms with hair loss and the new trend of scarf-wearing. I have been practising and a friend has bought me a lovely scarf to wear already – thank you.

I am sore, tired, but okay as I don’t feel sick any more!

I had a makeup lesson today at the hospital and learnt a lot – I had never been shown how to put makeup on before and now I just have to practise. I can’t play with my hair so I have to play with makeup instead – I am embracing makeup (who’d have thought?) and they have even given me a bag of goodies to try.

Thank you all again.

I would love to think that I could look as good as this!