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Category: Health

  • A life in Haiku – February 2013

    I found a group on Facebook that I liked the idea of, just before I went into hospital on 9th February. It’s called “A year in haiku” and it’s a group of people writing haiku to describe their daily lives. I wanted to join in and create something regularly. I also invited a handful of my…

  • It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)

    It’s interesting how people mark the passing of time with milestones and how we assign more significance to some of those milestones than to others. Ultimately, it’s all about the perspective that someone has at any particular moment in time. That perspective can and will change. Having had so many significant milestones happen recently, I…

  • Way up high or down low?

    Times of great stress or new challenges can be accompanied by moments of intense emotion. Such times in your life are when you need to just take a second and take stock. Rather than allow yourself to wallow too much, take action! This month I’ve found myself standing on the spot marvelling at the turns…

  • Robyn Lee’s Story

    It occurs to me that despite the many challenges that life is throwing at me just recently, I am still really quite lucky. I’ve got through preventative chemo and am starting to feel better, and I’ve even been working since my last chemo (though I pretty much collapsed every evening after work those first few…

  • It’s a brand new day (year)

    It’s going to be a busy time for me over the next few months, with my NEW BOOBS to be sorted out, and reconstruction operations and double mastectomies and so on . It really makes me chuckle to even think I’m getting fake boobs. I remember an evening in a place called the Sizzling Wok…