Clare Woods - The Unquiet Head




I consider to be a blessing the psychological zoom-out that my health situation has afforded me. I do have a new perspective on things. I was still struggling with a mindset of trying to "achieve" things when I wrote the post about chemo and mental health, and I&
I'm not going to blog incessantly about my health. Partly because that would be much too depressing, but also because I want to make the most of my time and what it means, and not get too stuck in the meta and mechanical day to day. At the
Context for this post is here and here. This is the second post in my mini series about chemo! The most emphatic advice I received from a very kind acquaintance who has recently gone through this process, was to keep a positive mindset. She had seen people in her chemotherapy
For background, here was the post where I talked more broadly about my breast cancer diagnosis. And there’s a follow up to this one here. A few people have asked me what the chemo is like, and this question has been much harder to answer than I thought. It&