Knives out!

Hi everyone

In a week I will be going through some surgery, followed by recovery (I hope!) and more chemo. It’s all looking fairly good on the getting rid of cancer front and I’m hoping to hear that most of it has gone after the surgery. I’ll keep you posted on that!

Meantime, I’ve got 6 poems memorised to keep my mind from spiralling while I can’t do much else, and I’ll try to get another one under my belt before then. I’ll also try to keep the old Duolingo (Italian) going for the duration, though I guess there might be at least one day when I’m too out of it on morphine to engage with that annoying little owl! I have also added a new challenge to my list, which is to get back to doing the occasional park run once I am fully recovered from the treatment. I’ve managed to start running again in the last ten days and it feels great! Not very far and certainly not fast, but moving is definitely better than sitting around all the time.

Thanks again to all of you who are letting me know what your challenges are – I really enjoy making you do stuff that you’ve been too busy/lazy to do before;) There’s ever more music, poetry, languages, exercise being done and I feel proud of those achievements by proxy. Keep it up!

I managed to knock up a sheep costume for my granddaughter’s nativity this week and did some work on the allotment as well as playing a bit of trumpet (for this afternoon’s band practice). It’s been great feeling so normal after months of symptoms and limbo. Normal life – it’s such a joy!

More soon

Lesleyx