I’ve just woken up from 10 hours of uninterrupted sleep and I’m still tired. I hate the feeling. My recovery from chemotherapy for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (a blood cancer) has not been without its challenges. Peripheral neuropathy (tingling fingers and toes) was something that took a lot of getting used to but I am pleased to…
My recovery from chemotherapy for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (a blood cancer) is not without its challenges. At the beginning of September I created a BLOG post titled Close to the Edge…. My mood was very low and I knew that change was needed – so I created a plan, documented it in the BLOG post and…
Not all days are good days…but in every day you can find something positive. Yesterday wasn’t easy. Was it the worst day of my life ? NO definitely not. Could it have been better ? Yes! Some days ago in my blog titled “Close to the Edge…”I committed to follow my own self defined routine……
Being alone is not the same as being lonely. For a big part of my life I have thought of myself as a loner. I didn’t need anyones company except for that of my wife and children. This may have come about because we have lived in foreign countries most of our married life and…
It’s 07:00 am. The beginning of my second week of transformation. As soon as the alarm went off at 06:30 am I got out of bed. No snooze…no “just 5 minutes more” – UP! 5 minutes later I was outside in the cold Autumn morning air. As I started my walk I looked back on…
It sounds easy for someone who can walk, talk, swim, jog, eat…..BUT it isn’t easy for me. I didn’t realize that I had a hard time doing it until I went to my first Yoga session earlier this week. Since early in my cancer journey (..there’s that ‘j’ word again…I don’t like it, but I…
At 06:28 am I woke up feeling stiff and aching (I had my first ever Yoga lesson yesterday..but more of that in a future post). It was cold outside. I pulled on my clothes and hobbled down the 2 long flights of stairs and achingly bent down to lace up my boots. I felt battered…