Tea & Chemo Quotes

“True happiness really is a matter of perception.”
― Jackie Buxton, Tea & Chemo: Fighting Cancer, Living Life

“Getting cancer is a perfect storm. It takes so much more than a rogue, deformed cell to cause a tumour”
― Jackie Buxton, Tea & Chemo: Fighting Cancer, Living Life

“I should also say that hot temperatures are to be avoided if you have a risk of lymphoedema.”
― Jackie Buxton, Tea & Chemo: Fighting Cancer, Living Life

“I do think if we can manage to sleep, everything in life is easier.”
― Jackie Buxton, Tea & Chemo: Fighting Cancer, Living Life

“That said, all the advice I’ve read and been given in hospital is that these are lifetime choices. Break the rules now and again and the result will not be automatic cancer. Nor will all heavy and even light drinkers get breast cancer. Remember, cancerous cells are the result of a perfect storm, a multitude of ongoing factors, only some of which we can influence.”
― Jackie Buxton, Tea & Chemo: Fighting Cancer, Living Life

“Unfortunately, women drinking any more than 2-3 units of alcohol a day put themselves at a slightly higher risk of developing breast and other cancers.”
― Jackie Buxton, Tea & Chemo: Fighting Cancer, Living Life

“Whilst the experts know how cancers are formed, they don’t always know why one person contracts cancer and another doesn’t. Once the well-publicised triggers such as smoking, excessive alcohol, obesity, sun exposure and genetics have been discounted, medicine puts it down to bad luck. In this case we’re grateful for the brilliance of modern treatment and hope that we’re not unlucky again.”
― Jackie Buxton, Tea & Chemo: Fighting Cancer, Living Life

“And all those moments, which happen several times a day, well, they blot out the cancer noise too.”
― Jackie Buxton, Tea & Chemo: Fighting Cancer, Living Life

“There never will be a single product or way of living which we can hold directly responsible for cancer, alas”
― Jackie Buxton, Tea & Chemo: Fighting Cancer, Living Life

“the removal of lymph nodes, but also radiotherapy, chemo and other cancer treatments, as well as the cancer itself, can damage the lymph system so that it struggles to remove the excess lymph flui”
― Jackie Buxton, Tea & Chemo: Fighting Cancer, Living Life

“post-mastectomy and lymph node clearance, we all have to be careful of the risk of lymphoedema”
― Jackie Buxton, Tea & Chemo: Fighting Cancer, Living Life

“I can categorically state that of all the operations and treatments, and even including the taking of the tiresome Tamoxifen (better known as Tamoxibollox), that the time of not knowing was positively the worst of it all.”
― Jackie Buxton, Tea & Chemo: Fighting Cancer, Living Life

“At diagnosis, the most terrifying aspect of it all was the not knowing.”
― Jackie Buxton, Tea & Chemo: Fighting Cancer, Living Life