My cancer advent calendar.

Christmas 2018 versus 2023.

Pick a box any box.

Christmas of 2018 presented itself as the Christmas of firsts;

• the first without my dad

• the first being unemployed

• the first not being able to eat nor drink

• the first wedding in the family I could not attend

• the first indication that life truly was a gift

• the first I learnt what it was like to have a disability

I was such a babe in the woo…