Fuck cancer

Woo! Well, I had my last immunotherapy on 8th April 2026 and that marked the end of over a year of cancer treatment.

I finally got to ring the bell and stop being an active cancer patient! 🔔🔔🔔

I am always gonna be on a huge variety of meds, experiencing a bunch of permanent side effects/chronic pain and will need various tests and scans for years to come. You don’t get to just go back to who you were, unfortunately.

But I am a brightsider and a big believer in the power of rebuilding stronger and better. It did not get to kill me and it has failed to break my spirit. I win. #fuckcancer 💪😎

Gotta remain on brand…

I love to make different seasonal versions of my logo, so when cancer happened to me I decided to make myself a logo and a tagline for this season of my life too.

I used a colour palette inspired by the film The Emperor’s New Groove (I’m not a huge Disney fan but it really makes me laugh), so I found the hex codes for the shades commonly referred to as 'poison pink/purple'', and the green colour is one of the ones which is often used in Disney Villain Green.

I had stickers and badges made up to give to fellow patients and staff in my cancer hospital and made the creepy black bag o’ poison being fed directly into my bloodstream a little more cheerful with a sticker. Well, I couldn’t have unbranded chemo now, could I?

Speaking of chemo, the treatment made me even more… me than usual and I reached Lovecraftian-protagonist levels of insanity, leading to vaguely Night Vale-esque ‘journalism’ and an outbreak of what passes for poetry when you have chemo brain.

I also love making graphics to share stats and facts, so have made a branded Fuck Cancer: The Numbers one just to illustrate empirically that treatment is A Lot.