Category Archives: cancer

so now what?

13 Friday Mar 2009

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confused

Met with my new oncologist this morning.

First of all I have to say that Ana is fabulous. Very patient, very straightforward, very clear … in fact, I spent over an hour talking things over with her. Given that she is the “sub-directora” (what’s that in English?) of the oncology department at my hospital, part of me felt a bit guilty about taking up so much of her time. But if I hadn’t kept asking questions we would never have got to the place we are now with my treatment. Which is still very confusing but, as Ana said, at least I will feel like I am doing everything possible…

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pilates

10 Tuesday Mar 2009

Posted by in cancer, fitness, health & happiness

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Going back to pilates class today!

After having been back to thrice-weekly (Mon-Wed-Fri) yoga classes since the beginning of January, I’ve decided to take the plunge and also go back to doing pilates classes on Tuesday and Thursday mornings.

So today I will have my first pilates class since last April.
Will let you know how it goes …

“When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard,
I am always tempted to ask, compared to what?”
– Sydney J. Harris

losing it…

06 Friday Mar 2009

Posted by in cancer, friends, health & happiness, life stuff, work

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black-cloud

I’ve been losing it the past couple of weeks.

And the thing is, I’m supposed to be better now. I’m supposed to be happy about being “cured” and that “nothing is wrong with me”. Except the thing that is still wrong with me is that I’ve spent the past ten months being sick, being in pain and being afraid … and I guess that just doesn’t go away overnight. It’s almost like I was able to cope with all the scary stuff better when it was all happening, because I had no choice…

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anti-cancer brekky

04 Wednesday Mar 2009

Posted by in cancer, food & drink, health & happiness

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fruit-brekky

Doesn’t this look fabulous?

It’s become my favourite brekky. Well, elevensies really, after having had coffee and a couple of digestive biscuits at 7 o’clock, before yoga class.  So around 11 in the morning I have fresh blueberries, sliced banana and natural yoghurt. Not only delicious but also quite a good “anti-cancer” meal.

Slowly but surely I’ve been introducing more of these much touted anti-cancer foods into my diet. Blueberries are one of the easiest additions so far (well, except the paying for them bit).

What’s your favourite breakfast?

going to morocco!

11 Wednesday Feb 2009

Posted by in cancer, friends, health & happiness, holidays, morocco, travel, trips

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tangerina-room

And that is going to be our room! Cute, huh?

It all started when Pip and I went on the unplanned road trip last October (for those who weren’t here at the time, here is Part One and Part Two) … the running joke was that, since there was no plan, that we should just hop on a ferry and go to Morocco. And we might have actually done it if we’d had more than one night away, but Pip had to get back.  And so we decided that we would definitely have to go to Morocco before I started chemo again, maybe for my birthday. But as you all know now, things have changed since then…

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