Category Archives: health & happiness

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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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?

my sister susan

21 Saturday Feb 2009

Posted by in friends, health & happiness, home, hope, life stuff, love, morocco

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sister-sue

This is my sister Susan (aka Pipocas)

There’s the family you’re born into and the family you choose. It started off as kind of a joke, telling the doctors at the private hospital that Susan was my sister so that they would let her visit that first night I was admitted for observation last May. Then we decided to maintain the ruse after I was transferred to Virgen del Rocío hospital for the emergency colon resection. Sometime between then and I’m not sure when, it turned out that we actually were sisters…

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