The Promise Climb

It’s Saturday morning, at present my only child free window in the week. There always seems to be an endless list of things that I should be doing to clear the physical and mental clutter and make space for writing, I feel like one of those dogs that keeps chasing its...

I initially started this blog as a way to document my healing journey and share some of the insights gained along the way. 

The posts were in chronological order and I began writing about my treatment path, which was a long list of conventional and alternative therapies...

And she’s back!…..I just realised that a cancer patient retreating from the world and keeping quiet for a few months might send out the wrong message. So I’ll start this post with a quick update on my health and the reason for my extended break from writing. 

I am alive...

I can't believe it's November already and it has been almost three months since my last post. It has also been a long time since the actual Promise Climb took place, and I'm yet to write about it. In all honesty, I seem to be much better at writing retrospectively than...

I keep receiving messages from people who have either been diagnosed themselves or their family members. Most of them sound very similar, I heard you beat cancer, tell me what you did?

Although I’ve been writing about my chosen treatment path, those posts were more narr...

I’ve decided to deviate from the story a little, in order to write this very special blog post, which in true Sanja form is well overdue. But through my cancer journey I’ve learnt to accept a lot more and be more forgiving towards myself. In this period of my life, whi...

When I was growing up, cancer was almost unheard of, at least in my circle of family and friends. I can only remember two people who died of cancer in the first two decades of my life. However, during this last decade, it seems like the disease has become a lot more co...

From the moment I got diagnosed, it felt like I had been thrown onto a conveyor belt. I knew roughly what to expect on this conveyor belt, but the more times I heard that word ‘standard’ the more I wished I could jump off. In my experience, the only problem with jumpin...

As you can guess by the infamous bald head,  this blog is written by a cancer patient. Therefore, it makes sense for the first blog post to be about the diagnosis itself. There were many lessons learnt along the way, things I wish I had done differently so I'm hoping t...