Oh @Beagle I have just responded to your other post, but I am so, so glad that you have extended your sick note, from what you say you are certainly not well enough to even consider going back to work, be ever so kind to yourself.
Please let us know how you get on xx
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Hi @Beagle this is the time in your life when you can legitimately just forget about everything else and concentrate on you for a bit. As others have said, try and be kind to yourself. None of this is your fault and there will come a day when you come to the end of your treatment. Hope you’re doing ok.
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Hi @Beagle,
I am sorry that your body has gone into inflammatory response, even your body is shook up not just your poor mind trying to cope with everything.
You are so right to listen to your body. I was a teacher and it is so often easier to go to school with illness and cope, than try to organise your lessons from home. Sometimes you must put yourself first and once you have come to terms with that decision it is easier to calm down and allow your body to adjust to the treatment and recover.
I found it helpful to have something to look forward to. I booked tickets for a Hans Zimmer concert months into the future. When I was weary I would listen to some of his movie themes whilst resting ( okay falling asleep is more accurate) . It helped me feel as if I would re-enter the world and have fun again. A holiday in Jersey was another plan for the future, with the reassurance that if I needed medical help I would be dealing with an English speaking doctor. By the time it happened I was actually really testing my recovery, doing cliff walks, hiring a bike etc.
There are positives to coming through this experience and I hope you find them. You can rethink your perspective and shed the little anxieties of everyday life, because they will seem minor. When I hear people on this forum I hear them enjoying nature and friendship, especially from other forum buddies and Forum Blood Cancer people, finding their family relationships stronger and being super grateful for the expertise of hospitals and other people involved in your care.
I hope that your pain issues soon disappear. I will be thinking of you.
Love Grandma Jo
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Great to hear from you @GrandmaJo, it is lovely to hear from you and I really agree with everything you say.
I have never been to the Channel Islands and it is on my incredibly long list to go to.
Keep enjoying nature and friendship they are absolutely priceless.
Keep looking after yourself and having fun, oh, and keep posting.
Nothing prepares you for the Channel Islands. There is something very wholesome about them and such a short flight or ferry to get there. The pace of life is much slower and they are so clean and remind me of the UK in my youth. There are lots of things to do and EAT! Yummy restaurants. Oh and whilst we in England are closing public toilets there are lots of lovely clean ones there. It really does remind me of my youth.
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Oh @GrandmaJo lots of lovely clean toilets and I will be there.
I have never been to the channel islands.
I have a slight problem with Guernsey as my first (note first, and in 1972) wanted to run off with a girl, after seeing her for only 2 weeks over on Guernsey, but his parents stopped him.
I stayed in that marriage for 10 yrs only to prove my father wrong, as he did not want me to marry him in the first place!!!
However you might have swayed me to visit them.