A visit to my sisters

It is 9am on a beautiful sunny morning and through my window I can watch people rushing to work, either by driving or that panic late walk/run!

What I have learnt over the last 12 months as I have been of work is how stressful life can be.

Yes it is good to work, I have been since 1979 (31 years!) done all the corporate ladder climbing/status thing and yet despite any job title you may earn or how big your salary is, what does it mean if inside you have not worked on yourself.

Work takes up a lot of our life, then we are tired when we get home, the weekend is on us very quickly, this goes by in a blur and Monday morning soon is upon is.

When this happens when do we get the time to not only look at ourselves, but also if we do find the time, there is too much to lose, big salary and status means big mortgage and credit cards and worrying what friends and family will think.

Before I had my 12 months out of work, I had overcome all the above fears to live my life as the woman I am.

What the last 12 months have given me is to complete the journey and use what is left of my life to find a job or whatever that I ENJOY and status or salary has nothing to do with this whatsoever.

A lovely weekend away at Jeanette’s

I went to visit my sister this weekend and had a lovely time and drank lots of Bacardi J

I think the next time that I visit her I will be well enough to make the journey by train.

We had a fantastic time shopping and talking and it was lovely to see my nieces again.

When we went shopping I could feel the recovery continue in my body, I was not as tired as usual.

She is coming to visit me next week and also come along to the hospital with me when I get my MRI scan results.

Hair recovery

I did not lose all of my hair, but it thinned over a period of time, every time I washed my hair the bottom of the bath was full of hair, and after talking to the other women at the chemo unit used baby shampoo, no hair dyes and only washed it every 4 days (this was hard as I hate greasy hair!) yet at the end of the last chemo treatment I would have settled for what hair I had left, ok it had lost its shine and life (yes chemo does this)

On the bright side I did not have too many grey hairs after 8 months of none tinting and I had not needed a headscarf or wig.

Now baby hairs are growing again and the shine is coming back! I will leave it to July before I tint it again to let the recovery go on.

So with aerobics, a healthy diet, walking and the lovely spring weather, life is looking good.

My next plan is a visit to Lisa and Amanda in the summer and also to go to the Edinburgh festival and see Caroline and her wife.

And before I forget I am looking to buy a mountain bike to start cycling again.

I think the most important thing that AI have learnt the last 12 months is take nothing for granted, and grab every moment of life.