I've written about the Teenage Cancer Trust gigs at the Royal Albert Hall before and how I thoroughly enjoyed my time at their music workshops backstage. I had been to other shows since then, including seeing my favourite band, Arctic Monkeys! But in 2012 I was invited to go onstage at one of the concerts! …
Author: thelptumour
My name is Lucy and I decided to write this blog to let everyone know how my cancer journey went. From the lead up to my diagnosis to today, if you ever wanted to know what happened and how I felt about it all, you'll find out here.
Look at me now
After the two music workshops I went to at the Royal Albert Hall, I was invited to a music workshop that was being held at a village hall in Belmont, just down the road from the Royal Marsden. This was a workshop held for teenage patients from the Marsden and of course I accepted the …
Backstage at the Royal Albert Hall Part 2
In 2011 I was invited once again to a music workshop at the Royal Albert Hall, it is very rare that you are invited to these things more than once so I felt extremely lucky to be asked along again. John (the Royal Marsden TCT representative) knew how much I loved comedy so it was …
Backstage at the Royal Albert Hall Part 1
I had heard of Teenage Cancer Trust (TCT) before I was diagnosed with cancer. As an avid reader of NME, I would often see the TCT gigs advertised in there and well I thought that was it, teenagers raising money for people with cancer by buying tickets for all these amazing gigs. I did not …
Meeting others with cancer
If you've read the story so far you'll know that I was treated in a children's ward, alongside toddlers and babies. I never met anyone my own age and always felt like I was the only person of my age in the hospital. The first time I met other cancer patients that were a similar …
Music
Everyone who knows me knows that I love music. Music has helped me get through some difficult times and music played a part in my cancer journey. All those days when I was lying in the back of the car on my way up to the hospital to receive radiotherapy treatment, my earphones were in …
Family
I've already written a post about how my lovely friends helped me through cancer and of course now I must thank my family too! My whole family were great through my cancer experience, giving me support all the way through and so thank you to all of you for doing that. There are however, a …
A little bit of Hypnotherapy
Whilst I was going through the radiotherapy part of my treatment, I had a visit from my Uncle Gary and my cousins, Matt and Ozz. I was still bed bound at this point and was gutted that I couldn't go downstairs to see them. My cousins came and poked their head round the door to …
Friends
Throughout my cancer journey my friends were a great help to me. Whether it was someone from my own group of friends or a friend of my Mum, I'd like to thank you for all your support. Firstly, thank you to all of my Mum's friends, for not only supporting me but supporting Mum throughout …
GOSH
GOSH stands for Great Ormand Street Hospital and about 6 months after I ended my treatment, I made a visit there. Mum had read an article in the paper about someone a similar age to myself who had a brain tumour and was told that it would not be able to be removed. However, a …
The LP Tumour 