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My Lovely Lungs

Mel Erwin

Stage 4 lung cancer; living with va-va-voom

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Spotting sorrow and the possibility of healing

Me, shortly before my lung cancer diagnosis, Whitstable, Kent August 2020

June 24th 2026, London: there’s a heatwave. Or rather, another heatwave and we’re only in June. My one-and-a-half lungs and I are breathing in and out.

Londoners...

20 days ago
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She is gone with the wind

The first time I met Kathrin was the last time I hugged her.

She lived in Munich, Germany with her husband and little son. I lived in London with my partner Sarah. We’d met each other online through the lung cancerverse. Her story shared b...

a month ago
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Living with cancer: more research, more life

My one-and-a-half lovely lungs and I at the Institute of Cancer Research, London, September 2025

Like all residents on planet cancer, I champion research. I know it can lead to a cure for this damned disease; help us live longer, lovelier...

2 months ago
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From Cope to Hope on planet cancer

A rare orchid, Cancer retreat, France. Look at these happy souls.

It’s late September 2020; I’m resting in our garden on a sun lounger propped with cushions. There’s a blanket on my lap and I’m wearing a new dressing gown. The house is ful...

2 months ago
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Lung cancer, dancing & all sorts of survivors

Me, Tsinde and Sarah; living, truly living with Stage 4 lung cancer.

I wrote this on the eve of International Women’s Day between 11.30 pm and 3.30 am. Possessed by the writing goddesses after an evening of poetry, power and feminism. Norm...

4 months ago
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