A couple of years ago I was on holiday in the Dominican. One night,in the restaurant, the man on the table next to ours started asking me about my hair! Wig. He asked me how I had got it curly and if it was permed. I replied that it wasn't naturally curly and smiled hoping that would be that. But his wife kicked him under the table and apologised to me for her inquisitive husband. He told her 'shut up -you don't know it could be a WIG', enough was enough so I said 'well yes actually it is a…

Seven years ago I finished chemotherapy for breast cancer. I waited for my hair to grow back, waited some more and then some.

To my horror and disbelief I realised I was waiting in vain. I spent the next 7 years trying to discover the truth, why my world had been turned upside down. Actually not only my life but that of my family too. I finally discovered I have become part of a dirty little secret of the drug Taxotere.

By now I was desperate for closure on this nightmare so I…