I decided when I was diagnosed that I wanted to travel as much as I could for as long as I could. For me It’s one of the great joys in life, I also decided I didn’t want to return to the same place twice. I’m not a rich woman by any means so I usually try and get the best deals I can traveling off peak. I use the search engine Skyscanner to find the cheapest flights to anywhere over a certain period…Continue Reading “Gorgeous Porto”
Before my diagnosis already suspecting the worst, I had confided in a close friend that I was afraid there wouldn’t be enough for me to fight for. I was jobless, almost homeless, partnerless, childless and now potentially breastless. I had floated through life and never really fought for anything. Anything I achieved seemed to be by accident, I was so focused on myself and what I didn’t have, I had little to give anyone else. It seems the most remarkable thing to happen in my…Continue Reading “Second chance.”
So from the research I did it would seem that an organic plant based diet would be my best option(yeah I know there’s an egg on the plate, I’m not quite there yet). Good job I’ve always loved my veggies. I got rid of my microwave, have stopped using anything from a tin and processed foods in general. I can take or leave meat, but I am a real bread fiend and love my cheese. My aim is to to eliminate wheat, meat,dairy and…Continue Reading “Making changes, plant based”
When I was first diagnosed with cancer on the advice of my counselor, I created two imaginary boxes ( you can use real ones if you like). One for all the things I could no longer have thanks to cancer, and one for the things I still could. In the first box I put my baby, my business, my long haul flights ( clot risks?), my year in the jungle (never a realistic option anyway, the bloody moises would have eaten me alive), living abroad…Continue Reading “Not too shabby”
There is a place you go when you get this kind of news, a place where time stands still and you exist in a kind of hazy bubble, a surreal underworld. You shut out everything and indulge yourself, you wallow in your selfishness. It is actually quite a pleasant place to be despite having to pass through hell to get there. You do everything to push it down to distract yourself, eventually you pull it back and toy with it, you try it out for…Continue Reading “That place”
So the drugs didn’t work the cancer has spread to my liver despite the juice the organic veg the positivity the wheatgrass. Despite all my best efforts this sneaky disgusting disease has bypassed the drugs and hit my liver. I really might be dying, I have so much to do, the practical stuff like read up about chemo the side effects, nutrition, alternatives to help myself and not hinder the work this poison needs to do. Decisions to be made like do I even want…Continue Reading “Liver. How do you live when you are dying?”
Tarragona city rocks. As you can imagine waiting for scan results can be very stressful. I usually try and distract myself as much as possible. So this time my sister and I took off to gorgeous Tarragona city, Spain. Unfortunately my legs got really badly sunburnt, lesson learned regarding sun and meds. I also had pains in my head which scared the bejasus out of me. I finally realised like a complete numpty that my sunglasses where too tight! Tarragona is about an hour south…Continue Reading “Tarragona City”
