09 Tuesday Jun 2009
I know what you’re thinking – that this simply looks like yet another photo of Susan (aka Pipocas) out for lunch somewhere and has nothing to do with shopping whatsoever and besides this is Tuesday. And well, you’d be partly right. Well, okay, mostly right. Except that all this happened on Sunday. Two days ago …
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.
04 Thursday Jun 2009
… and really dreading it.
Last time I had a really bad reaction to the infusion. By the time I got home I felt sick & weak, my tongue was swollen, vision blurry, eyelids were twitching like mad … I ended up heading straight for bed and collapsing. When I told Dr Ana about it yesterday I thought I just needed them to give me an extra bottle of saline solution in the drip at the end, but apparently the solution won’t be so easy…
02 Tuesday Jun 2009
My friend Sara (happily owned by those two wee rapscallions Foley & Murphy) did the central London Race for Life with her mum this past weekend. Considering that she just finished treatment this past January I think this was quite an accomplishment. It also brought happy tears to my eyes when media naranja Steve sent me this photo yesterday saying, “this picture is just to let you know you are in our thoughts, and that you are not alone, no matter what”. For every so-called friend or family member who has dumped me over the past year, this really makes up for it.
Thanks Sara & Steve. That really made my day.
They were running for life up in Oirland as well.
Here’s a video of h2g2 pal Beatrice doing her part…
Well done, girlfriends!
27 Wednesday May 2009
Posted in animals & pets, friends, photos
Remember these guys?
Well, they are growing up fast, as you can see here in my “gatos amigos” fotki album.
Here is some Wiki information on Ragdolls and a link to the Ragdoll breeder where Sara & Steve bought the boys (if you go to ‘our boys’ and scroll down, Tam is their dad). Foley is a blue mitted, and Murphy a blue colourpoint.
I’ll be adding new pics to the album as I receive them.
casa azahar 