CHARMAIN NAIDOO: Cancer drugs? I speak from bitter personal experience
'You’re a sitting duck when it comes to making decisions that will affect the rest of your life, or death. Your money or your life: it’s as simple as that'
Four years ago today, June 15, I found a lump in my breast. By accident, really, during a particularly bloody episode of Game Of Thrones – the Red wedding scene for those of you ardent followers of probably the most watched fantasy series in the history of television. It was at 3.30 that Saturday afternoon that I plopped down onto my couch with the remote control. I’d spent a wonderful, busy morning with my favourite niece Zoe – shopping and lunching and laughing. I’d earned the right to watch (on a lazy Saturday afternoon) this week’s recorded episode of GOT. One of my favourite characters in the first series was Catelyn Stark, a strong, brave Wonder Woman.In the world of film and make believe, you always feel safe in the knowledge that the main protagonists will survive whatever horror the author puts them through. After all, they’re central to the storyline, and good – we have been told over and over and over again – always triumphs over evil. Well not this time. Catelyn Stark’s ...
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