by Nicole Cooper | Mar 19, 2020 | Cancer, Survival, Uncategorized
I share my cancer life. Everything that is blunt and real about my health crisis is out there for public consumption. It has been from the start. It was a decision that seemed obvious to me when I was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2017. How many brand-new mums...
by Nicole Cooper | Jan 10, 2020 | Cancer
It was a casual Wednesday night and I was casually flipping through the pages of my health history. I must have been searching for a notebook or putting away another Lego instruction manual or something equally as harmless to cause me to open the living room cupboard...
by Nicole Cooper | Aug 15, 2019 | Cancer, Survival
It is fading all the time. The fear, the fragility. The pain and loss. It has been days, and then it has been weeks, since I was enveloped by the emotion and paralysed by the fear. And for some moments I really truly completely forget. I am peaceful. Laughing with...
by Nicole Cooper | Jun 17, 2019 | Cancer
This was one of the most rewarding things I have ever done. I knew it almost immediately. I knew it before I had really taken stock of it all. Before I was sitting on my couch in Melbourne, eagle-eyed for the first promo on TV. Before the flurry of messages...
by Nicole Cooper | Dec 13, 2018 | Cancer, Exercise
Over the course of my almost two years of cancer fighting, I have had countless beautiful people offer their support. Emotional, social, physical, spiritual – whatever my need, it has always been more than met. This commitment to me has meant everything to me. Healed...
by Nicole Cooper | Oct 31, 2018 | Cancer, Survival
I slumped against the wall in my wardrobe, and my troubled head found a welcome rest on the doorframe. I was waiting. For the racks of corporate wear to materialise an outfit that I would feel comfortable in. Watching. The hems of skirts and dresses sway back and...