Glittering a Turd: How surviving the unsurvivable taught me to live: The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller

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But in my community (myositis), it seems like being a woman, and being a woman of colour, already makes you start with a disadvantage. Beginning her TV career at just 15, Fearne Cotton has been no stranger to experiences many of us can dream of but also those that can be the stuff of nightmares.

If you were sitting in a room chatting to Kris I cannot imagine the conversation to be any more intimate and engaging than the writing in this book.I’ve also heard whispers of exasperation from medical professionals who don’t have any screening tests to offer younger women and girls presenting with these concerns and in many cases feel that there isn’t the capacity to investigate every hormonally lumpy chest!

Rage at the egotistical, dismissive, offhand, "I know better because I'm a professional type" doctors who won't f**king listen to their patients who know their own bodies best!I first came across the author Kris because of the organisation I worked for was offering some start up support in the early days of her charity Coppafeel! I have had breast cancer for 12 years, trust that I have some handle on this (even when I doubt this myself sometimes). oh, and to remind you to check your boobs, and trust your instinct when it comes to your own body and wellness. When a huge turd of an obstacle (in this case cancer) is thrown in your way how do you deal with it?

Naturally when Kris published a book, “Glittering A Turd”, I bought it, and would have been glad to read whatever she fancied writing in it! She was diagnosed de novo with the disease at a scarily young age even for those of us who faced a diagnosis in our thirties, and yet she’s known for loudly banging the “early diagnosis saves lives” drum. I think everyone will find something to identify with in this book - you don't need to be a terminal cancer patient!In the very same setting where I and my friend work, another colleague has a daughter who was told by a MALE GP that her bleeding between periods was likely due to rough sex with her boyfriend!

I’ve mentioned it before but I’ll mention it again for the sake of this review; I lost my father in 2017, 9 months after a terminal diagnosis of cancer and the whole time was a horrible, difficult, turd of a time, and it would have been very easy to crumble. When I heard youngsters on a bus chatting about what they had learned about breast cancer in school that day, I silently thanked Kris and CoppaFeel for finally putting cancer awareness on the national curriculum so that all young people would have the chance to be educated about how to advocate for their health. You may have many questions about all the above and I did too when I first embarked on a mission to help myself heal.

he has since had a gastroscopy, biopsy, been diagnosed with a stage 3 oesophageal tumour, has had a JEJ tube sited for feeding and is awaiting radio/chemotherapy to shrink the tumour before surgery!