ROCK COUPLE OPEN UP ABOUT CANCER BATTLE
the dark times and keep her in the best of health.
“Because of the surgery on my breast I was told I couldn’t run, so I approached it by a doing a lot of walking,” she recalled. “I would walk back and forth the five miles to the North Wales Cancer Centre (at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd in Rhyl).”
Nevertheless, unbeknownst to Jules, one of her worst fears was about to be realised, something which she said, “almost destroyed her”.
Instantly identifiable, much like her husband, for her blonde hair, Jules admitted she was terrified of losing it.
Despite using a cold cap, which keeps the chemotherapy from circulating into the brain and destroying hair follicles, she experienced some drastic hair loss.
“The cap has been extremely effective but you still do lose hair,” she said. “I remember it was November and I had just got back from the World Cancer Congress in Paris, when my hair started to come out in clumps.
“I was about to head out for a walk. I touched my hair and I looked down there was long blonde hair in my hand. I had been so strong up until that point, but I just collapsed and started crying.
“A lot of cancer patients feel very guilty and embarrassed discussing the idea that the thought of losing your hair is bothering you, because, of course, first and foremost eradicating cancer is your priority.
“But for you to wake up each morning when you have a full head of hair, losing it is terrifying.”
Having to deal with the scars of surgery on her breast, and then hair loss, pushed her to the limit.
“It very nearly destroyed me,” she confessed. “It’s your femininity, it’s your sexuality, it’s a huge part of what you’re going