‘Thank you, cancer!’
Rachel Slade, 31, from Lichfield, got out of a rut and into a whole lot of adventures
Before I had cancer, I presumed tomorrow was a given. I’d go to work, come home, have dinner with my partner, Gavin, now 41, then watch TV until bedtime.
After feeling a shooting pain in my left breast in January 2016, I was diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer, a rare and aggressive type. It had already spread to my lymph nodes.
An intense course of chemo began, followed by a mastectomy and full lymph node clearance.
When I was diagnosed, I still hadn’t worn some Christmas socks I’d been given two months previously. I’d decided to save them for the following festive season, but now I had cancer, I put…
