The Malignant Ginger

I'm Jojogingerhead, a 31 year old artist & musician based in Brighton (UK) satirically documenting the highs and lows of my secondary triple negative breast cancer diagnosis. Trying to see the light in a dark and scary situation without using the words fight, battle, journey or survivor.

Poison running through my veins (second chemo)

  I’m almost excited to be going to second chemotherapy session this morning so I get to spend the day with one of my best and oldest friends Sarah (we met at the age of […]

Jul, 08

Hospital soup strings

  So it appears that my workplace is not the only location to provide the soup string phenomenon. I found this little dude in my soup today at chemo!   I based a whole art […]

Jul, 08

Goodbye left ginger sideburn

  Bye bye ginger left sideburn I think Brookwood Cemetery is a very fitting resting place for my hair that started to fall out this lunchtime on our picnic (and don’t ask why we were […]

Jul, 02

Toesy woesies

I painted my toenails dark as apparently the chemo can nails fall off if exposed to UV sunlight.

Jun, 27

Shagged

Being shagged on the sofa on a Friday night has taken on an entirely different meaning recently, I’ve never been so knackered!

Jun, 20

Poison running through my veins (first chemo)

The first of six sessions of chemotherapy, I took a mascot, Enrique the Mango with me for moral support (pictured above). The cold cap was like wearing part of the Antarctic, the drugs actually looked […]

Jun, 17

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