Late last night I lost someone very, very dear to me. I don't really know what to think or feel, but please:

Get that pain you've been having checked. Get that strange lump seen to. Don't ignore it, don't put it to one side, don't put it on a todo list that never gets done. Most importantly, don't be scared.

Cancer is always that thing that happens to other people until suddenly you're sitting at the wrong end of a diagnosis and it's too late for treatment to keep the bloody thing at bay.