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The new crocus is having a lovely morning in the sunshine 🌞 I’m very attached to this little happy little flower. It’s the first of all the bulbs I planted right at the start of my treatment in October to bloom, and it’s a sign that new beginnings are on their way. The daffodils are starting to slowly poke through now as well. Everything is growing, even if you can’t always see it. #timelapse #timelapseflower

HOW REMBRANDT SAVED MY LIFE: Rembrandt used his lover Hendrickje as a model for this 1654 painting of Bathsheba with King David’s Letters. I remember years ago seeing the image being used to highlight lesser known signs of breast cancer - look at the dimpling on her left breast. Scientists now think that Hendrickje probably didn’t have cancer after all and that it was mastitis or some other condition, but the image has always stuck with me. So when I noticed dimpling on my left breast (no lump), this painting was the first thing I thought of. If it wasn’t for Rembrandt I’d never have thought that I needed to go to the doctors, as, like many people, I had only ever been looking out for lumps. Ladies, if you notice anything at all different or unusual about your boobies, please get it checked out. Early detection will save your life. You can see the 12 signs of breast cancer at @knowyourlemons 🍋 Thank you Rembrandt 🙏🏻 #breastcancerawareness

TOP TIP: if you, or anyone close to you has to go through chemo that causes hair loss (as not all of them do), get your eyebrows microbladed first. I’ve lost all of my hair, my eyelashes and most of my eyebrows now, but I’m so glad I got them microbladed before starting chemo as they help me look relatively normal as I go through all this. And looking normal(ish) helps me to feel normal, which is very important when your world has been turned on its head and you look like an egg. My skin is dry, my gums are weak, my nails are brittle and my hair has fallen out, but at least my eyebrows look good 💁🏻‍♀️

Every week I sit in the waiting room at the hospital looking at this picture of a mural in Williamsburg. In November, @jamesscottcook and I are going to go to New York and will see this street in real life and maybe have a drink in that café there and think about how far we’ve come.

He looks so much better in this than I do

It felt like Instagram was a bit lacking in snow pictures lately, so here you go.

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