by Lesley Goodburn | Feb 3, 2026 | Uncategorized
Today is World Cancer Day and I am sharing my diagnosis of lobular breast cancer. From mid Feb I will share a week-by-week summary of my experience of chemo, surgery, radiotherapy, and hormone inhibitors over the 12 months of 2025. I will share this experience through...
by Lesley Goodburn | Feb 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
October to November 2024 The warmth of the October sunshine beating down as I walked down a wide street in Barcelona much warmer than an English summer. I was excited to be going to the patient experience colloquium to present Seth’s story and some of the professional...
by Lesley Goodburn | Dec 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
New Year’s Eve a time to reflect; a time to celebrate and both of these are on the agenda for tonight. When I think of New Year’s Eve, I think of being a child and a teenager and the preparations for New Year’s Eve parties at home with my mum and dad. Each year there...
by Lesley Goodburn | Oct 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
Dear Seth Happy 61st birthday 6th of October went from being a joyful day to a sad one when you died in 2014. You will be forever forty-nine, vibrant, full of life, full of fun, full of love and kindness, full of dry humour and curiosity. You didn’t make it to 50, I...
by Lesley Goodburn | Jun 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
How can it possibly be 11 years since Seth died? but it is, and I have lived those eleven years every day with the trauma distress and injustice of his early death. It would have been really easy to drop into deep sorrow, unmitigated pity but I did not take that route...