Arrive

I’ve just been diagnosed with breast cancer. I’m surprisingly uninterested in having cancer. The greater question, of how to live life with some degree of generosity and radiance after having to stop my beloved HRT patches, is more perplexing. As the oestrogen trickles out of the building, I wonder what might remain or arrive beyond sadness and fatigue? As a friend reminded me, who’s just completed her cancer treatment, “Watch your thoughts, Ali”.