20 Saturday Jun 2009
Posted in cancer, food & drink, photohunt, photos
Today’s Photohunter theme is “creamy”.
In keeping with the whole anti-cancer thang, have been trying to include more antioxidents in my diet. One of the most delicious ways has been making fruit & yoghurt smoothies for breakfast. This one has blueberries, melon, banana, natural yoghurt … and also some greek yoghurt to make it extra creamy.
18 Thursday Jun 2009
Posted in cancer, food & drink
So I got some ginger. So now what?
Trying to do more anti-cancer diet stuff these days. Ginger is supposed to be very good for nausea and tumeric is touted as being a very effective natural anti-inflammatory. Have yet to start on the tumeric but yesterday I made a lovely chicken stir-fry with spring onion, garlic, mushrooms, lemon and ginger. So if any of you have a favourite recipe that uses ginger, please pass them along and I’ll try them out. Preferably some very simple dishes that I can make during the first ten days of my chemo cycle when the nausea is at its worst.
14 Sunday Jun 2009
Posted in cancer, change, food & drink, friends, health & happiness, home, hope, life stuff, love, philosophy, photos, tapas
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On this week’s A Day at the Hospital post I told you that something wonderful had happened and that Nog and I went out to celebrate. Later I told you the reason for celebrating, but I never told you what we did. By the time we left the hospital that day it was almost 2 o’clock and, since I knew I had some extra cash, I decided it was high time I treated Nog to a tapa snack as he has been treating me since I got sick and haven’t been able to work.
And so we took the bus over to Becerrita and had a lovely tapa lunch. Calamares, lamb in honey sauce, potato croquettes and pork tenderloin with wild mushrooms. Then a nice walk home while I thought about the email I was going to send “Bob” that evening.
To be honest, every day has been a celebration since I was given the amazingly fabulous gift of a month to heal. It’s really changed my life and I am suddenly appreciating all the “little things” so much more. I guess I’d been feeling kind of hopeless and at the end of my rope, and so being given this chance to do things the way I feel I need to in order to get better ended up starting a whole series of positive changes. Still taking baby steps, but doing a little every day.
Having hope again is a wonderful thing.
08 Monday Jun 2009
Posted in cancer, change, chemo, fitness, food & drink, friends, health & happiness, home, hope, life stuff, yoga
Remember multi-tasking az?
Well, she is taking some time out.
She needs some time to heal.
I just couldn’t do it all. I’ve spent the past two months going through the horrors of chemo for the second time, trying to organise work projects and find new students to teach, pay my bills, make new contacts … and all it’s doing is wearing me out. I haven’t actually found any work and I know that – things being the way they are in Seville – the chances of anything picking up for me workwise won’t realistically happen until September. So it’s time to stop hitting my head against that brick wall for now and time to start doing what I know will help me.
I’ve spent the past few days “practicing” my new healing method and you know what? It feels great. I’ve been listening to exactly what my mind and body need and then doing just that. And I know that, for me, this is the best way to heal. I also know that doing this isn’t going to make me one euro, and I have no idea how I’m going to make ends meet over the summer … but I just can’t worry about that now.
This is what I need to do. Follow my heart.
31 Sunday May 2009
Posted in food & drink, health & happiness
I haven’t had much appetite lately. Or better to say that I do get hungry but find I can’t eat that much, so I’ve been doing more snacking than making proper meals. Yesterday I decided that if I am going to be eating less (which is a good thing – would love to lose some weight) then as much as possible I’d like my snacks to be “small & perfect”.
This is what I came up with last night. A garlicky spinach & pinenut rollup with cheese. I’m quite into flour tortillas these days because they add a bit of substance without being too heavy. Honestly, after every meal, no matter how light it is, I end up having to go lie down for awhile. As if even eating tires me out.
If you have any good ideas for smallish & light (and really delicious) snacky meals, please send them along …
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