Category Archives: health & happiness

so now what?

13 Friday Mar 2009

Posted by in cancer, health & happiness, hospitals, rants

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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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a lovely day…

12 Thursday Mar 2009

Posted by in blogging, films, food & drink, friends, health & happiness, holidays, photos, restaurants, sevilla, tapas, wine

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slumdog
I mentioned over here, after having seen my third or fourth meh film in a row, that I couldn’t actually remember the last time I saw a film that really wowed me. Well, it finally happened a couple of weeks ago when Susan & I had another “girls’ Saturday night out”. Except this time we started with lunch …
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pardon my absence

10 Tuesday Mar 2009

Posted by in blogging, friends, health & happiness, hope, life stuff, work

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chair

For those of you who may have noticed…

I haven’t been around the ol’ blogosphere much of late, though I have actually been spending even more time than usual in front of the computer.  When I have had some time to do a little blog reading (usually in bed on the iPhone with Azar on my head) I mostly catch up without leaving comments. Which I know is really bad of me because I know how much I love getting comments, and that you gotta give in order to receive, and all that jazz. But it’ll probably be like this for the next couple of weeks anyhow, while I desperately try to get work and other stuff sorted out.

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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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