Francesca Rudkin

about the same person when you say that.

Welcome back.

You have given us so many great insights so far.

I'm just curious, you know, can you explain to us, we hear the words negativity bias quite often.

Can you explain to us what that is and how that impacts us?

I read somewhere recently, wallowing is a privilege, which I thought was quite good.

You know, the saber-toothed tiger's not actually at the front door.

And I do get that.

And I think I was probably wildly optimistic.

And then a couple of things happened, including a breast cancer diagnosis.

And I did fall off a cliff because I, you know, I, in my head...

done all the right things to avoid that.

And I do remember someone, and this is a good thing for people to remember when they go for scans of various kinds of things, we're looking for something.

We're looking for the absence of something or the inclusion of something.

Going for a scan isn't a protective factor on its own.

It might be a protective factor for discovering something early.

Once I sort of got that through my head, I

I realised that actually all of the things that I'd done had probably saved my life in the end, just because if they hadn't found something or if I hadn't gone looking for something, we wouldn't have had a diagnosis and had a treatment plan.

But that was with a lot of psychological help, by the way, that I came around to that.

And if they've left the nest and they're away at university or away working or overseas, is there a question we can ask?