Liz

If you remember, I was waiting to see my surgeon to have my neck nodes looked at.

As a breast surgeon, I was always vaguely aware of World Cancer Day, but the significance of it passed me by.

I'd never heard of the word scanxiety until I was diagnosed with breast cancer and started talking to the breast cancer patient community on Twitter.

I've just come back from a fabulous few days in Switzerland, and got to spend time with my family over Christmas.

This time last year I was recovering from my mastectomy and reconstruction, and I still can't believe how much my life has changed in the year that followed.

I'm still off work at the moment - waiting for things to fall in to place so I can be re-skilled before being let loose on live patients again, and that means a lot of time at home during the day, and I might watch the odd Friends repeat every now and again just to pass the time.

A couple of weeks ago I hosted a tweetchat for Macmillan to help people with cancer learn about their rights when they go back to work.

I'm about to start returning to work, and I have to say I'm a little nervous. It's going to be incredibly tough to go back into the breast cancer environment having had breast cancer myself.

Ever since I was a teenager, I've had an aversion to the colour pink. Now before you panic, I wasn't traumatised as a child, I just didn't think it suited me.

It's been a while since I last blogged. I guess I just needed a couple of months to mentally recover after all my treatment had finished. But now I'm back, and there's a lot to catch up on.