So tomorrow at midnight the voting for the UK Blog Awards 2016 opens and I can't believe I'm typing this but I really hope you can all find the time to click on the link on the top right of this page and give this blog a vote? If this blog starts just one conversation on Sarcoma, makes just one person who reads it for the first time get their funny lump or symptoms checked then a good thing has happened.
By entering this blog, it and now by proxy those linked to it will be on the health page of the competition. I am told that people do read the pages and with a word that they probably haven't heard before, Sarcoma, I hope that they will take the time to click on it and explore further, to read the other blogs, to see what the charities do, to talk to people about Sarcoma. I also hope by reading it that they understand that Sarcoma and Cancer in general is not just a physical disease and that the mental health side of it is just as if not more important. If it makes them understand the mind of a cancer patient just a little better so that they can talk to them a little easier or say the right things or even learn when there is a time to say nothing, well that can only be another good thing can't it? Don't get me wrong I am very proud of this blog, very proud. Not because it got me likes and followers but because it gave me a voice, a voice I had lost, it gave me a way of connecting with people, people who made me realise that my thoughts and feelings weren't unique or wrong. I have connected with people who understand me, who know how it feels to feel like there is no future, that you are truly alone, that anger and fear are truly incapacitating feelings. They have also given me strength, a strength that came from kind words and actions, from messages and conversations, from their own humility and determination. Without this blog I never would of met them and I am very thankful for that. So I guess thanks to all of you for reading and supporting me so far, and a very special thanks to someone who I know believes in me, believes in what I can achieve and always tells me that. And just a reminder, Midnight on the 4th Jan, tell your friends and click the link..... Thanks.
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Valérie
23/1/2016 04:33:18 pm
Good Luck Darren, you just got my vote! Keep well:-)
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Darren Evans
23/1/2016 08:38:45 pm
Thank you Valerie, if you can send me a link for your website I will link it here if that's ok?
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Darren EvansOn Feb 11th 2013 my life changed forever when I was diagnosed with a myxoid liposarcoma of the right thigh. This is my version of my life since then. Archives
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