… is all I ever seem to do these days.
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casa azahar 
This, too, shall pass. It doesn’t seem to have f*cked you up too badly mentally, which I find amazing. How’s the cold thing today? Shall I send you something warm?
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Flaming June! My favorite! well one of them.
If you try to nap in that position it actually isn’t very relaxing…
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Nap away, my dear. It will get better, honest.
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It seems like one of your cats hacked into your account.
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I’m more likely to nap in pyjamas and bed socks than a flowing sunset coloured silk robe, but still, napping is good! 😉
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I love this pic too, Sledpress, and am sure I’ve used it here before. No, not the comfiest of napping positions, but very pretty nonetheless.
“It doesn’t seem to have f*cked you up too badly mentally”
Actually, it really has, Beth, sad to say. I’ve been an emotional wreck since the infusion and have hit some pretty low lows. Systematically poisoning myself just feels so wrong in every way, even though the hope is that I’ll get a nice long remission after this is all over. In that sense, the napping has been a relief because it gives me a break from it all.
It’s just hard to imagine doing this for the next 5-6 months and, as the side effects tend to get worse as you go along, I really wonder about Dr Ana’s claim that I should be able to live a “normal” life through all this. I’d have a good cry over it except – guess what – there’s something in the chemo that actually makes the tears hurt my eyes. 🙄
Anyhow, I did one very positive thing this morning and made myself go to yoga class! I was really unsure about it, but Nog walked me over to the gym and once I was there on my mat in my little “safe corner” it felt so good to be there. I took it really easy and got all the kinks out – it was definitely the right thing to do.
Susan (Pip) wants to go out for lunch today. I hope I can make it, otherwise I won’t see her until next week because she’s going out of town for the long weekend. I think the best plan is to just keep going until lunchtime – if I stop now and get all comfy then I’ll probably end up falling asleep.
And so, going out for a walk now. It’s a perfect spring morning out there.
Catch you later …
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Good for you making the effort to go to yoga! Shame you can’t have a good cry though – I always find that very therapeutic. Oh, she’s fallen asleep again…
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Atchly just back from a trip to the supermarket (everything will be closed tomorrow and Friday) and am just waiting for Susan to pick me up for lunch. Trying out yet another new place today.
I can crash after I get home again. And with all this Semana Santa madness it’s best to stay inside after about 4pm anyhow.
Check out the special Semana Santa recycle bins!
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Lunch was fabulous … have a look!
Need to lie down now. 🙂
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Yes I laughed at the bins via your twitter/ facebook link this morning 🙂
Ooooh, hungry now, looking at all that lovely food! Tuna looks a bit overdone for me though…
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The place looks wonderfully warm and inviting… I would agree with Linda aka Beatrice about the tuna… I like mine crispy on the outside, cool and dark red on the inside.
Thank goodness we don’t have smell-o-vision or I would be on the floor having a seizure…
I should say, however, that, as odd as it sounds, I found that if I take 20 or so good long sniffs of a food I am craving, I no longer feel the craving. If, for instance, someone has a bag of chips and I really want some but know I shouldn’t, if I can persuade them to let me sniff the bag…. (no exhaling into the bag, of course) I will take some long, deep sniffs and no longer want the chips. It is almost as though I have sated my craving simply by smelling the food.
There is a connection between taste and smell, of course, so I imagine that it must be that I am flooding my taste senses by smelling and I have sort of fooled myself into thinking I have actually eaten the food.
Of course, you need to have someone willing to allow you close enough to their food… That is the hard part.
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You would have both loved the tuna – it was totally blood red on the inside. Well, the bottom slice was (Susan had that one – my slice was perfectly pink). And the leg of lamb was soooooo tender. Plus whatever they did to those garbanzos was pure heaven.
I was just getting into bed for my nap when Nog came home from a class and I told him that even though I had gone to yoga class AND out for a walk AND out for lunch I wasn’t actually feeling that tired but thought I might lie down just for awhile … and I was out like a light in about three minutes. 🙂
Still, this is actually the best day I’ve had since the infusion, energy-wise. And spending a couple of hours with my sis always cheers me up. Plus it really was (is) a perfect spring day out there.
Unfortunately, I’ll soon have to start preparing for the colonoscopy, which will certainly make for an extra long long weekend. Bleh. Maybe I’ll try your thing, Mudhooks, and take to sniffing blueberries and asparagus since I won’t be able to eat any fruit or veg for three days. 😦
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Some things are a bit hard to sniff, of course, since they don’t have a lot of odor until they are cooked.
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Good thing I already had lunch. That tuna made me want to dive right in. I think I’m going to try the sniff approach for satisfying cravings. How wonderful if it actually works.
Napping is good. Just ask a cat! I am so glad that you can eat and have the energy to go to yoga and walk outside.
Enjoy your colonoscopy prep! I decided to approach mine as an opportunity to get detoxified. Then at least I wasn’t feeling all deprived.
Those recycle bins were positively frightening. the menacing hooded figure — reminded me of the Ku Klux Klan
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