It’s been a while, hasn’t it?

I’ve written before about being turned away in tears from a local spa during chemotherapy in 2015. All I wanted was a massage during my good week before I went back for round 2.

Almost a year ago, I wrote my last cancer-related blog - 'Who am I?'

This is not the blog I thought I was going to write today. I know it's been a while since I last posted, and quite a lot has happened.

Firstly, I realise that I've left those of you who don't follow me on Twitter or Facebook anxiously waiting to hear the results of my tests, and I'm truly sorry.

The Independent and the Daily Telegraph published articles yesterday saying that less than half of all GPs knew that Tamoxifen can reduce the risk of breast cancer.

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.

I can't believe that it's almost a year since I was diagnosed with breast cancer. A lot has happened in that time.

I bet that title caught your eye, didn't it? Friends and family alert - I'm going to blog about the thing that no-one ever mentions after you've been diagnosed with breast cancer.