Fear of the name only increases fear of the thing itself

Im opening blog number two with a lovely quote from Miss Hermione Granger for two reasons. The first being that CANCER is a scary word, we need to talk about it more and raise awareness. The second reason is to introduce you readers to Brian. Brian is my tumour. When you give something a name it seems slightly more friendly I think. He is named Brian as a bit of a word play on Brain, and I just thought it was a good name for him... That's my sense of humour anyway. For those of you who have seen pixars film inside out, I imagine him to be a bit like a grumpy old man sat in the courner. Brian isn't very happy at the minute anyway because I have just completed my second week of radiotherapy! Hurrah, that's a third of the way through treatment now. It's going pretty quickly and I'm doing fine so far. Hopefully Brian is losing a bit of weight! Unlike myself who is munching through as much comfort food as possible! I can't believe how much money we have managed to raise so far for brain tumour research, £500!! Me and my family are so thankful to all of you that have donated so far, let's keep going! It's such an underfunded area of research it's amazing to think that we are now really helping and one day they may find the cure that lets us cut down on using words like cancer and tumour. I will leave you with that for now. Again if you have any questions about the fundraising, research, treatment etc I'm happy to talk to anyone.

Thanks again for reading :)