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In a bit of a funk
Read more: In a bit of a funkI find myself wondering if it is the weather. It has been raining most afternoons for the last week and a half or so. I’m finally able to walk and get out and exercise, but doing it is a challenge when the weather isn’t participating. I’m also watching my friends defend their dissertations. I’m happy…
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I now see awe
Read more: I now see aweFor the last several months I’ve hated it when Facebook sent me reminders of my bald days. I couldn’t look at bald pictures of myself without feeling a sense of loss. I wanted to put that behind me. I didn’t want to see them. I didn’t want the wave of sadness that I felt every…
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I forgive my body
Read more: I forgive my bodyOne of my struggles this last year has been dealing with loss. I’ve been sad about all the things that I felt that cancer had taken away from me. I felt a deep sense of loss that I was reminded of regularly. Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back…
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Poetry and life energy
Read more: Poetry and life energyIt has been many years since I last wrote a poem. This ons was inspired by a picture I drew. The task was to “draw your cancer”. My picture evolved and within it this poem emerged: My body’s love for life is growing out of control Like a forest fire smothering life in its wake…
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Cancer as a gift
Read more: Cancer as a giftI struggle with the idea of cancer as a gift. It is not something that I would wish on anyone. But it has changed me. It as also given me so many new opportunities, that I cannot dismiss the positive things that I have happened. In a session this morning (I’m at Commonweal in their…
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Flashbacks
Read more: FlashbacksToward the end of our Going East bike trip, I began to get these flashbacks. They would be full colour images (imaginations) in my brain of places we had been or people we had met. Mostly I would remember it, and then smile, recalling a particularly good meal or long day’s bike ride under the…
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Hormone therapy update
Read more: Hormone therapy updateI thought it was time to give an update on my progress with hormone therapy. Fortunately, there is not a whole lot to say. This week I added the denosumab shot (Prolia). The purpose of this shot is to help my body begin to rebuild bones, since I have some reduced bone density. The issue…
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Putting one foot in front of the other
Read more: Putting one foot in front of the otherThese last few days I’ve had lots of flashbacks and reflections as to where I was at this time last year. On the weekend I started walking a little more with the walking cast. It wasn’t much, just a lap of the complex. On Monday it occurred to me that I could do my walk…
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On healthy privilege and prevention
Read more: On healthy privilege and preventionPrevention: the action of stopping something from happening or arising. ~Google Definition. Words matter. I find that certain words really make me cringe. One of those words is the word prevention. Why? Because prevention means that we know what causes something. It means that we have a way to actually prevent it from happening. Another…
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A new perspective on sleep
Read more: A new perspective on sleepOne of the side effects of various hormone therapies is disruption of sleep. I also have sleep apnea (thank-you surgery and hormone therapy!), so I see a sleep doctor. I didn’t like the clinic I was at originally, so I moved to a new one and I love the new doctor. She spent an hour…
