I'm Ill You Know

About the Book

How can you one day be living an ordinary life, then the next facing the biggest fight of your life?

What would you do?

Journey with the author through cancer and out the other side.  Follow her while she struggles to make sense of the strange world that has become her life.  Live the emotions of cancer with her. Read how she makes difficult decisions and how sometimes those decisions were made for her, but most of all laugh with her.

Along the way she meets colourful characters, visits unusual places and loses body parts, but not her humour.

‘I am visited by the physiotherapist who goes through the do’s and dont’s booklet.  Apparently I can work up to doing housework like ironing; I have been personally working up to ironing for 45 years and feel I have some way to go.  ‘I will not have a problem with stairs when I get home’.  I tell her I will because we live in a bungalow and don’t have any! I will get Trevor to put some in before I get home’. 

Everyone has choices in this world.  Sometimes these choices are forced upon you.  So what was Nikki’s choice; to cry and die or live and laugh?

Read on and find out which one Nikki chose.

About the Author

Nikki Coombs has lived and worked in Devon all her life.  She is married to Trevor and has two adult daughters. 

She had worked for most of her life in the caring professions and never dreamt that she would one day be needing people to care for her.

At the age of 45 she was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called, Choriocarcinoma.

At that point her life turned upside down.  She learnt how to get through one day at a time and face each challenge as it was thrown at her.

Although she has always had an ‘alternative’ sense of humour, she never thought she would be relying on it to see her through the toughest times of her life.

Nikki never aspired to write a book, in fact she vowed never to write anything more than a letter to her doctor.  But 49,000 words later, here’s her book!