Between Appointments™ is a companion for people living with cancer and serious illness. Honest, practical support for the scans, the waiting, and the conversations nobody prepares you for.
Free to join. No noise. Leave whenever you like.
The space nobody talks about
Refreshing the patient portal at midnight, just in case.
The week before a scan, when time moves differently.
Saying "I'm fine" because it's easier than the truth.
Updating everyone, again, in the same careful words.
Googling a symptom you promised yourself you wouldn't.
Feeling alone in a room full of people who love you.
If you recognise any of this, you already understand what we're building.
There is a whole life lived between appointments. Almost nothing has been designed to help you live it.
A note from the founder
I was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer. The appointments, it turned out, were the easy part.
There was always someone in the room for the appointments. A consultant, a nurse, a plan. There was nobody for eleven o'clock on a Tuesday when the letter arrives. Nobody for the night before a scan. Nobody for the moment you have to decide what to tell work.
I went looking for something honest. Not medical information, there's plenty of that. Not motivation, I didn't want it. Just someone who had walked this road, talking plainly about how to live through it.
I couldn't find it. So I started writing it.
This isn't a miracle story, and I won't tell you everything happens for a reason. Between Appointments is the thing I needed and couldn't find, built by someone still living it. You can read the essays and decide for yourself.
Daniel KerrFounder, Between Appointments™
From the writing
"Nobody tells you the scan itself is fine. It's the fortnight before it that takes something out of you. You learn to live in two-week instalments. And then, slowly, you learn to live anyway."Daniel Kerr, from the essays
What we're building
A clear, honest guide to the period after diagnosis. What to expect, what to ask, what nobody thinks to tell you.
Beautifully made journals for treatment, recovery and the waiting in between. Useful, not decorative.
Short, grounded listening for waiting rooms, sleepless nights and the drive to the hospital.
Practical support for the days before results, written by someone who knows exactly how long those days are.
For the people walking beside you, carrying their own version of this and rarely saying so.
A quiet, private space for people who understand each other without explanation.
Everything is being built slowly and deliberately, with the people it's for.
Founding members
The first members won't just receive this work early. They'll quietly shape it.
Joining is free and asks nothing of you.
Our philosophy
Most cancer resources explain treatment.
Few explain how to live through it.
Your medical team looks after the disease. Between Appointments looks after the life around it: the waiting, the working, the relationships, the long quiet hours where most of this is actually lived.
We are the bridge between medical information and lived experience.
A few honest answers
No. Nothing here replaces your medical team, and we'll never pretend otherwise. Between Appointments looks after the life around treatment, not the treatment itself.
People living with cancer or serious illness, whether you were diagnosed last week or years ago. And the people beside you, who are carrying their own version of this.
Nothing. The waitlist is free. When the first resources launch, founding members will receive founding pricing, held for life.
Yes, at support@readbetweenappointments.com. Every message is read by Daniel personally, with care. Because this is a small founder-led project, a personal reply isn't always possible, but nothing you send goes unread. For anything medical or urgent, your healthcare team is always the right door, and the fastest one.
The First 90 Days arrives first, and founding members will know before anyone else. We're building slowly and deliberately, because this has to be right.
Join the founding members and help build the companion you went looking for and couldn't find.