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Life after discharge

A little bit broken (yet still a beautiful thing)

Posted on 10 April 2018 by Sofia Vougioukalou

  This was inspired by a photograph of a butterfly someone else had taken when it landed next to her, and her observation of how it was broken but still […]

Love Tree

Posted on 10 April 2018 by Sofia Vougioukalou

My Gift To You A poem about carers and the (often unrecognised) importance of their role in cancer survivorship. The poem is called My Gift to You-- because friends who care […]

Lotus

Posted on 10 April 2018 by Sofia Vougioukalou

  'To me, the cancer journey felt like being in the eye of a storm. Having very little control over what was happening, learning how to hold on, withstand, and […]

Acorn cups

Posted on 4 April 2018 by Sofia Vougioukalou

    The acorn cups resonate with me, from the outside they are hard and ugly but those golden cups are the very heart of the tree  - they hold […]

Raven

Posted on 28 March 2018 by Sofia Vougioukalou

    Before my diagnosis and treatment I spent a lot of time with Ravens on the mountain ridges of Snowdonia. I would soar high above the crags, catching the […]

MRI scan

Posted on 22 March 2018 by Sofia Vougioukalou

  This painting inspired by my MRI scans, that my urologist provided. So I thought that’s what I’m going to do, I’m going to try and paint and then this came […]

Cancer Diagnosis, Healing and Feeling Timeline

Posted on 22 March 2018 by Sofia Vougioukalou

Denial I was in denial the moment I felt the pea sized lump. I was too stressed at work to deal with it and it came and went with my […]

Dreams

Posted on 22 March 2018 by Sofia Vougioukalou

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Mal, prostate cancer survivor        

My Journey

Posted on 22 March 2018 by Sofia Vougioukalou

MY JOURNEY I sat in the consulting room With my red socks as company "It's almost certain you have CANCER" Is what the doctor said to me. There are tigers; […]

Snakes and ladders

Posted on 20 March 2018 by Sofia Vougioukalou

                                  Looking back 8 years on April 29th 2009 my life had a blowout. I […]