LIFE'S SIMPLE PLEASURES
WOMAN'S OWN|May 29, 2023
When Laura Price, 40, found her cancer had returned, she decided to make the most of the little things
LAURA PRICE
LIFE'S SIMPLE PLEASURES

Waiting for the doctor in the hospital consulting room, I felt numb. I knew what was coming, yet a tiny  part of me hoped I was mistaken. Then the oncologist walked in and said, ‘It's not good news,’ shattering all the hope I had left.

He explained the breast cancer I thought I’d been cured of 10 years earlier had been lurking in my body all along, and a potato-sized tumour had taken root in my sternum bone. I had stage-four breast cancer – it was treatable but incurable.

I’d gone into the room alone to try to protect my partner Mark, and was dreading telling him – we’d only been together just over a year. After I came out, we sat on a bench and I broke the news. Mark, 48, was shocked – he hadn’t allowed himself to think the worst. But within minutes, he put on a brave face, reassuring me that we could get through anything.

When given a life-limiting diagnosis, lots of people write a bucket list. But as I sobbed in Mark’s arms, I didn’t want a trip to the Seychelles or to go bungee jumping; I wanted to hold him and enjoy the simple pleasures many take for granted, like lying on the sofa watching Gogglebox with a plateful of food and our cats, Cosme and Cleo, on our laps.

STOLEN CHOICE 

I was first diagnosed with breast cancer in June 2012, aged 29, after finding a lump in my left breast. Even though I’d had several misdiagnoses and it took four months to be diagnosed, I was lucky as the cancer hadn’t spread beyond my breast and was curable.

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