{"id":241998,"date":"2025-07-06T06:18:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T06:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/241998\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T06:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T06:18:12","slug":"cathy-kelly-like-kate-middleton-i-survived-cancer-but-im-not-the-person-i-was-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/241998\/","title":{"rendered":"Cathy Kelly: Like Kate Middleton, I survived cancer but I\u2019m not the person I was before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">We need to talk more about the challenges of post-treatment life: the weakness, the loneliness, the weight gain, the anxiety\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cathy Kelly: &quot;[The Princess of Wales] opened up about something many of us are afraid to talk about.&quot; Photo: Steve Humphreys\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SN  Cathy Kelly.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Cathy Kelly: &#8220;[The Princess of Wales] opened up about something many of us are afraid to talk about.&#8221; Photo: Steve Humphreys<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Surviving cancer is like watching fireworks explode brilliantly in the sky. You\u2019ve made it.  You\u2019ve done your time in the chemo chair, lain under the arc of the radiation machine, come through random A&amp;E visits for fast-moving immune system illnesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">You are finally out the other side of a terrifying diagnosis, one that nobody ever wants to be given. You will be there for your children, for your family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We need to talk more about the challenges of post-treatment life: the weakness, the loneliness, the weight gain,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7714,7713,533,94110,2832,532,2831,7710,519,7711,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-241998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-catherine","10":"tag-catherine-middleton","11":"tag-kate-middleton","12":"tag-living-with-cancer","13":"tag-prince-of-wales","14":"tag-prince-william","15":"tag-princess-of-wales","16":"tag-royal-families","17":"tag-royal-family","18":"tag-uk-royal-family","19":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114804838111445206","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}