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…
Life can be tough and it’s sometimes easier to do nothing than to do something. For many years exercise was a bad word in my vocabulary. I would do almost anything to get out of any form of exercise – that doesn’t mean that I was lazy. Quite the opposite – I was and still…
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……
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…
I’m not sure if blackberries are considered as a “super fruit”…one of those fruits that is packed with nutritional value that helps with memory or virility or hair loss …or something else. What I do know is that I enjoy eating them. What I also know is that one of life’s great pleasures is to…
Yesterday was a bad day – my wife told me that I was not the bubbly easy going man she married all those years ago. This powerful message was the start of a new future. Having been told that my cancer is still in remission I should have been on top of the world, but…
Cancer does strange things to your body and to your mind… I had walked thousands of steps each and every day for almost 3 years. Not a day went by with less than 10000 steps….and then my oncologist informs me that I need to cut down on my walking. No way!!! I said to myself…