Author: Trine Amazon

Sometimes it can actually feel like you're going forward when you're going in circles - even though you end up where you started. One thing I'm still learning is that the cancer never really lets me go completely and there are so many emotions connected to experiences and expressions that I once had. Things that… Continue reading Expressions and Experiences Reclaimed

5 years cancer free, 5 years flat and 5 years as an activist. "There have been times when I've been thinking that it could be nice to have a "normal" body and I felt weary of the struggle that it sometimes can be to not conform. But the tiredness I experience is only associated with… Continue reading The Big 5 Year Mark

(picture by Marie Louise Flindt Herløvsen) In a little over three months it's been three years since the mastectomy and therefore three years since I've been declared free of cancer (or no evidence of disease as its called). Which is so Yay! But cancer is not your everyday disease, if it spreads the consequences are… Continue reading Another burden of my uniboob chest

Art exhibition, TV, book and a cover of a magazine! On all channels I truly got the chance to show my "new" body this past 6 months and it's been a blast. For me this entire waltz has been more than backwards, I've never been so confident in my overall appearance and general existence in… Continue reading Showtime

An exhausting and out of the ordinary day indeed The first half of the day was kind of crazy as I was filmed half naked for a kids show(!) on a national kids TV channel called DR Ultra. The theme was breasts and there were five of us, wearing undies as our only garment, in… Continue reading Ultra Day

I don't think about having had cancer on a daily basis anymore. Some time during the last half a year I stopped identifying myself as a cancer patient. I didn't even realize that it happened, but the shift is big. And the relief equally paramount. My scar has simply become a beautiful part of me… Continue reading Scarred, but not Scared

So today I got up at five o'clock to travel to Aarhus, because I had the honor of being invited to talk at the annual national breast cancer conference in Skejby. The talk was aimed at nurses, representing all hospital departments in Denmark working in this area and the interest for my viewpoint was overwhelming;… Continue reading Dialogue with the health care system