Feeling blessed today.

The sun is shining and I am feeling lucky today. I am meeting my beautiful friends tonight and I am at work with an amazing group of people who make every day a delight.

My best-friend from London is coming to see me next week and she doesn't even mind lazing on the couch with me while I recover from my third round of chemo - I will be halfway through treatment next week!

We have planned for her to come over for a year now and when I fell ill I was so upset I wouldn't be able to give her the holiday we had hoped and planned for. But Bryony, being Bryony, doesn't care at all. She is just happy to be here with me. We met at my job in London. I don't think she was sure of me at first, and she didn't understand I word I said at first cause of my kiwi accent - I still think it stumps here at times now. One of my favourite memories with her was when she took me to Madisons, a roof top bar, and we drunk copious amounts of wine and smoked packets and packets of cigarettes (we have both stopped that nonsense now) and got up to a whole lots of mischief. Ending the night with a kebab shop skanky pizza and had to both get up for work at 6am in the morning the next day. Oh, the good times we have had.

I am blown away by the support I have received during these last two months. The messages from school friends, the gifts, the support I have received from my current work with my treatment plan, strangers who stop by and wish me luck and send love, my friends and family. I still say I am the luckiest girl alive. Thank you to every single one of you, you are the reason I am so strong today.

The cancer community has also been such a blessing throughout this journey. The cancer Society, Southern Cross hospital, the Auckland Breast Centre and Auckland Hospital. THANK YOU.

Talking to people who are currently going through treatment and people who have kicked cancer gives me so much strength and makes me feel less alone. I met up with Tash, badass ovarian cancer survivor, on Monday night. She is incredible and inspiring and is out there spreading the word. Her attitude is infectious and she has a wicked laugh. Check out her instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/tashluna/?hl=en

Everyday I wake up and take on the day with a smile. I have stopped complaining about small things and envying other people. Everyone faces their own battles everyday. I always remember some wise words my colleague said to me "I bet if you got everyone together and they put all their problems in a pile in front of you along with your lot, your problems would be the first you would take back. " and it's true.

Every day I feel so lucky that I found the cancer early and I am in the process of fighting it, that I even got a chance to fight it. My father told me Tuesday that there was a 23 year old boy at his work who was crushed by a straddle (he worked at the Ports of Auckland). He never got a chance to fight. His life was taken from him so abruptly and unfairly. He had so much left to do and it is so heartbreaking.

I walk along the road and see people who have severe disabilities or are camping out on the streets and I just think to myself, why? Why do people have to go through such horrible things? I have a second chance, this is just temporary and it could be so much worse.

Be happy you are you, and celebrate your life for the amazing thing that it is. When you wake up each day, think of one thing your thankful for and start the day on a high. Life is to be lived and enjoyed, don't let things you can't help get you down. There is always a new day filled with new possibilities.