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…
For some weeks now I have found it really hard to concentrate – both at home and at work. I have been putting on a brave face up until now, but today I finally acknowledged that this is a real problem that is impacting my family and my work. It is very difficult to explain…
It’s the 1st September 2024 – one year ago I had my last of 12 chemotherapy infusions spanning a 6 month period and I am still alive – I am without doubt a very lucky man! Each infusion took approximately 5 hours but the 12th seemed to take an eternity. At the end of the…
I was afraid…very afraid! It was about 2:00 am. My wife was in bed next to me and finally she was sleeping. Exhausted and empty of tears – at least for the moment. A few days before I was told that I had cancer and I had 3-6 months to live. I would like to…
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…
When from nowhere you’re told “you’ve got 3-6 months to live…” all of a sudden you have a very clear perspective on life… On 31st October 2022 I visited the doctor because of a very mild cough – other than the cough – I was feeling fit and healthy. Less than 1 week later (3rd…
Staring death in the face! In April 2022 I started this blog…I was full of positivity. My goal was to improve my life by steering my own destiny instead of waiting for life to push me in a direction I didn’t want. I had no idea back then that this Blog would save my life….
At the beginning of 2021 I was 56 years old and I weighed 260 pounds – I was obese, so the thought of walking 10 miles a day seemed crazy. I was “working from home” and not venturing outside unless absolutely necessary, so my starting point was on average less than 1000 steps per day….