Category Archives: health & happiness

I love it when a plan comes together…

21 Monday Jun 2010

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… or in my case, several plans.

I didn’t realise what a turning point the trip to Málaga would turn out to be. So again, thanks to everyone who made it possible for me to go without racking up more credit card debt. In the end I only spent money on train fare and two lunches out, so it was a fairly cheap trip, but very rich in experiences. I think it also helped to have a couple of days on my own – and being by the sea certainly helped!

Anyhow, these are the various projects I’ve been working on since I got off chemo last summer: tapas tours, Seville website & blog (with forum), social media management, the Sevilla Store, and English classes (specifically for restaurants). So far the only ones bringing in a bit of income are the tapas tours and social media stuff – my private English classes, such as they were, finished last week for the summer. But it does look as though things are coming together…

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waiting…

15 Tuesday Jun 2010

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Ever since my oncology appointment on May 24th I’ve been waiting to hear when my next PET scan will be. I’d been told it was going to be sometime during the first half of June and, frankly, I’ve been a nervous wreck all month. Then on Friday one of The Team told me the PET would definitely be this week and the hospital would call me on Monday (yesterday) to confirm. And well, they did call. But I was told my PET would be on Monday June28th. Two whole weeks away. Which I suppose won’t make much difference in terms of my health (if there are tumours it’s doubtful they will grow significantly in two weeks) … but dammit. I’ve been trying to get my work organised and the summer planned and had hoped to know at the beginning of June whether I was going to have a cancer-&-chemo-free summer.

Now I won’t know until July.

This sucks.

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sled strikes again…

18 Tuesday May 2010

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Remember back in January when Sledpress sent me a fabulous birthday care package full of wonderful things to help make me feel better? Well, she’s gone and done it again, except this time even more so … and it isn’t even my birthday!

I’d just spent most of yesterday morning (after getting home from yoga class) dealing with landlord Pepe and the 100-year-old carpenter he’d brought over to “fix the doors and windows that don’t close properly”. Which are, well, all of them. And I felt so sorry for the old carpenter, who told me that if he’d known the state of things beforehand he’d never have accepted the job – he could see that all the doors and windows in the building were beyond repair and he didn’t like doing work that was “futile”. Anyhow, he managed to get the livingroom balcony doors so that they won’t fly open with every gust of wind, but there are still huge gaps that he said are impossible to repair because the doors are totally warped. He’s coming back on Thursday to tackle the rest of the doors. And in the middle of all this the postman rang up and said he had a package for me…

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on sleeping…

11 Tuesday May 2010

Posted by in fitness, health & happiness, home, yoga

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Touching once again on two recurring themes here … sleep and weight loss. Very embarrassed to say that my grand plan to start over and follow a low carb/low cal diet didn’t last long. It’s so frustrating when I look back to that post (February 1st) and realise if I’d stuck to it I’d probably be about 20 kilos lighter by now. Anyhow, I’ve come to realise that this whole health & fitness thing is like a tangled ball of wool for me and I keep pulling on the wrong loose ends to try and straighten it out, and it just gets more tangled. If that makes any sense. Which I know is going to sound like excuse making to some of you, but for me it’s a very true thing. And so, I am now focusing on the sleep thing again. Because a well-rested az is a happy az. And a happy az tends to want and like to do things that are good for her. To wit…

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the pilling of two cats

25 Sunday Apr 2010

Posted by in animals & pets, cats, health & happiness, home

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Pics taken yesterday morning of the two “patients”, clearly on the mend.
(look how much Loki has grown!)

So it turned out pretty much as zoomer had warned about back in February. Loki does indeed have feline herpes and this past week, in spite of getting Azar vaccinated, I’ve had two sick kittehs at home. I’m more than a bit annoyed that when I first went to see the kittens the cat shelter volunteer said that what Loki had was “just a bit of a cold” and assured me it was nothing contageous. And later the vet also talked about Loki’s “cold” as if it were nothing to worry about, though she did say I should get Azar vaccinated and wait two weeks before bringing Loki home. Which I did. But in fact, feline herpes can be quite dangerous in kittens and older cats … so again, I am kind of pissed off that both the vet and the volunteer seemed to care more about finding a home for Loki than the health of my 15-year-old Azar. Because a week or so ago Loki had another outbreak and Azar got very sick as a result.

Anyhow, the boys are now taking anti-biotics – in pill form! – and they couldn’t be any more different about it…

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