This 23-Year-Old Cancer Patient Has One of the Most Inspiring Style Blogs Ever
by Danica Lo
"On the 23rd November 2012 I was diagnosed with breast cancer aged 22," writes now-23-year-old Laura Cannon on her blog Laura Louise and Her Naughty Disease. "I got my head around it for a couple of weeks, then I named my lump Kenneth and began telling my story to the blogosphere."
Today, less than a year later, Cannon is still in the throes of her battle with cancer—which she called "the big C"—and the author of a well-read personal health and style blog chronicling both her "Action Plan to Kick Kenneth's Ass"—i.e. six rounds of chemo, Herceptin treatment, a double mastectomy, radiotherapy, and a five-year course of Tamoxifen—with a good dose of lighthearted fashion and beauty tips and observations.
I was so inspired by Laura Louise and Her Naughty Disease, I wanted to show you some of my favorite excerpts.
On dressing to distract. "I added a scarf to keep me warm and a fun T-shirt to distract away from the obvious head with no hair covered by a hat look. Also after much research, I have discovered when you wear shoes as great as the red boots, no one cares about the bald head. I went to M and S before my oncology appointment on Friday and to my great surprise, strangers rarely took notice of my head. The truth is, very few people even looked twice at it. One woman in the queue at the checkout sort of smiled at me weirdly, but that was it. In general people cared a whole lot less than I expected."
On the "perks" of having no hair. "You see having no hair has its perks...I use a hairbrush for karaoke, when I have a bath I can have bubbles EVERY TIME, getting ready in the morning I can just throw a hat on and I have loads of free time to do pretty Valentine's Day-style manicures."
On how chemo changes your hands—and how nail art can help. "I am currently working my way through tubes and tubes of hand cream and nail oil. At the moment, Vaseline healthy hands and nail cream has been my cream of choice. It absorbs quickly and is not too greasy, but I do find my hands are still left a little dry. My smell and tastes change during chemo, but luckily I like this smell A LOT (unlike some other hand creams) and it doesn't turn my stomach (BONUS). I'm also on the hunt for a good nail oil. In order to disguise my ugly nails I decided to go for full-on bling just because can. Why not? It also makes me happy every time I look at them."
On reality. "I worry about lots of things, in fact I spend my whole life worrying. And now I actually have proper reasons to worry. My problems are now way bigger than what shoes to wear! And sometimes I am just not very good at realising this. I make everything into a joke. But really having cancer isn't a joke. There are I admit funny parts to it, and I do like to look at the best side of things in life, but sometimes, just sometimes I think I have to take this whole cancer thing a little more seriously."
Laura's blog is so inspiring—definitely check it out if you can, right here. Do you know someone who has battled cancer? Tell us what you think of Laura Louise and Her Naughty Disease, in the comments below.
Friday, 11 October 2013
This 23-Year-Old Cancer Patient Has One of the Most Inspiring Style Blogs ever
This 23-Year-Old Cancer Patient Has One of the Most Inspiring Style Blogs Ever
by Danica Lo
"On the 23rd November 2012 I was diagnosed with breast cancer aged 22," writes now-23-year-old Laura Cannon on her blog Laura Louise and Her Naughty Disease. "I got my head around it for a couple of weeks, then I named my lump Kenneth and began telling my story to the blogosphere."
Today, less than a year later, Cannon is still in the throes of her battle with cancer—which she called "the big C"—and the author of a well-read personal health and style blog chronicling both her "Action Plan to Kick Kenneth's Ass"—i.e. six rounds of chemo, Herceptin treatment, a double mastectomy, radiotherapy, and a five-year course of Tamoxifen—with a good dose of lighthearted fashion and beauty tips and observations.
I was so inspired by Laura Louise and Her Naughty Disease, I wanted to show you some of my favorite excerpts.
On dressing to distract. "I added a scarf to keep me warm and a fun T-shirt to distract away from the obvious head with no hair covered by a hat look. Also after much research, I have discovered when you wear shoes as great as the red boots, no one cares about the bald head. I went to M and S before my oncology appointment on Friday and to my great surprise, strangers rarely took notice of my head. The truth is, very few people even looked twice at it. One woman in the queue at the checkout sort of smiled at me weirdly, but that was it. In general people cared a whole lot less than I expected."
On the "perks" of having no hair. "You see having no hair has its perks...I use a hairbrush for karaoke, when I have a bath I can have bubbles EVERY TIME, getting ready in the morning I can just throw a hat on and I have loads of free time to do pretty Valentine's Day-style manicures."
On how chemo changes your hands—and how nail art can help. "I am currently working my way through tubes and tubes of hand cream and nail oil. At the moment, Vaseline healthy hands and nail cream has been my cream of choice. It absorbs quickly and is not too greasy, but I do find my hands are still left a little dry. My smell and tastes change during chemo, but luckily I like this smell A LOT (unlike some other hand creams) and it doesn't turn my stomach (BONUS). I'm also on the hunt for a good nail oil. In order to disguise my ugly nails I decided to go for full-on bling just because can. Why not? It also makes me happy every time I look at them."
On reality. "I worry about lots of things, in fact I spend my whole life worrying. And now I actually have proper reasons to worry. My problems are now way bigger than what shoes to wear! And sometimes I am just not very good at realising this. I make everything into a joke. But really having cancer isn't a joke. There are I admit funny parts to it, and I do like to look at the best side of things in life, but sometimes, just sometimes I think I have to take this whole cancer thing a little more seriously."
Laura's blog is so inspiring—definitely check it out if you can, right here. Do you know someone who has battled cancer? Tell us what you think of Laura Louise and Her Naughty Disease, in the comments below.
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