After being identified with bowel most cancers, Deborah James has used her platform to teach others about the ups and downs of her well being journey.
James, 40, who shares son Hugo, 14, and daughter Eloise, 12, with husband Sebastien Bowen, beforehand revealed that she was most cancers free following a three-year battle with the life-threatening stage 4 analysis.
“It’s a bit bonkers (and I haven’t honestly processed this for a few reasons), but right now, I have no evidence of cancer in my body!!. Which seems bonkers considering at one stage I had 15 tumours!” she wrote through Instagram in 2020.
As the most cancers returned, the BBC podcast host used social media to focus on her happiest moments alongside updates about her well being. “I very much ‘live with’ cancer. I hope I’m a lot more than just my diagnosis – this isn’t an account ‘just’ about cancer. It’s about Celebrating the moments between,” James, who began “You, Me and the Big C” in 2018, wrote through Instagram in January 2022. “I like to celebrate life. It’s all about taking it a day at a time! Step by step and being grateful for another sunrise.”
Following a virtually six-year battle, James revealed that she was getting into hospice care after steady visits to the hospital. “I don’t think anyone can say the last 6 months has exactly been kind! It’s all heartbreaking to be going through but I’m surrounded by so much love that if anything can help me through I hope that will,” she famous in May 2022. “In over 5 years of writing about how I thought it would be my final Christmas, how I wouldn’t see my 40th birthday nor see my kids go to secondary school – I never envisaged writing the one where I would actually say goodbye. I think it’s been the rebellious hope in me.”
At the time, James admitted that she was “absolutely mind blown” by the love that she obtained on-line. “I just cannot thank people enough for their generosity. It just means so much to me,” James instructed BBC that very same month, noting that her fundraising reached new highs. “It makes me feel utterly loved. But it makes me feel like we’re all kind of in it at the end together and we all want to make a difference and say, ‘You know what? Screw you cancer.’ You know, we can do better.”
James famous that she hoped her honesty on social media impressed extra individuals to help most cancers analysis. “We can do better for people and we just need to show it who’s boss,” she continued. “Over the last five years I’ve campaigned, I’ve spoken about awareness, I’ve shared my story for a reason — the laughs, the giggles, sharing that you can live with cancer, unveiling what cancer can look like. But ultimately what I really want to happen is I don’t want any other Deborahs to have to go through this. We know that when we catch cancer early, we can cure it.”
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