@Erica are these ok?
Calming and Therapeutic - music that helps you feel relaxed or perhaps raises morale, when under stress and anxiety and you feel “down”. The right music helped me a lot when I had blood cancer. Of course my team were pure perfection, but music helped me as well and it gave me confidence that I could do something to help myself. This of course is a “fun” informal group, it is also nice to know we can help each other by sharing ideas.
My own choice is in the relaxed group the instrumental composition by Fleetwood Mac Albatross. @Jules would be interested to know your thoughts as well
Great idea @anon06. My favourite calming music is a piano piece by Yiruma called RIVER FLOWS IN YOU. I also like to picture in my mind a river of fresh water flowing through my veins bringing new energy and hope.
Sorry I am not able to include the YouTube link here but hopefully someone more technically minded will be able to do so.
Warm wishes Willow x
Good choices for this week from @anon06 for Friday juke box . CALM
I also see November as the calm before the storm and what with all these storms we have been having. Black Friday next week and all the madness of when the Christmas season lands for those that celebrate it.
@anon06 calming and therapeutic sounds good to me and it is not my Jukebox it is everyone’s.
I am going for
CALMING AND THERAPEUTIC - Dire Straits - Why worry - Why Worry - Dire Straits Lyrics (HD) - YouTube
Perfect varied choices everyone, I await others
It may be a strange choice by me but I’ve focussed on the Therapeutic rather than the Calm aspect , I play this when I need motivating to do something!
To destress I find listening to a contemporary music & video piece composed by daughter - called Waves Tides and Ripples. The video is of waves lapping on the shoreline. Very soothing. It is not short. Apologies for parental bias.
Another piece I like is Einaudi’s I giorni, here it is performed by Daniel Hope:
For calm and therapy, ,Thomas Tallis. Close your eyes and just let the voices carry you away https://youtu.be/QmH1nZSGIyY?feature=shared
I have been lucky enough to hear this in York Minster live with the Sixteen, it made the stones sing.
Hi @helenfwallace thanks for asking. I think I may have turned a bit of a corner since last Sunday night when if I had felt better I would have rung 111/999.
Having loads of tests, it has just taken me hours to write up my medical notes
My GP’s are being fantastic.
@Erica keeping in theme of the thread https://youtu.be/1qq7jTPkjVg?feature=shared
So given all your experience and knowledge what stopped you ringing?
Do you recommend keeping notes of the journey you have with your cancer?
Glad that your dance has managed it through the free jazz section and more secure in the waltz
Hi @clickinhistory 2 answers to your question,
A. I just felt too ill and could not breathe well enough to speak
B. I am good at giving advice and not so good at taking it !!
Personally I do keep notes on every medical interaction or symptom, a sort of diary of events.
When I read back recently at how ill I felt at diagnosis it was quite an eye opener.
I also needed to check when and what had happened at another diagnosis the other day.
My notes are not that comprehensive.
@Erica well that is inspiration for a few of us newbies, a true teacher! Ignores their own advice with panache
Discovered this week that you can text for an ambulance or just ring 999 and tap the handset, someone I know had to do this because of an asthma attack.
I know symptoms and numbers are the guidelines to our lives, but I am not yet sure if I want to follow this route yet, it was bad enough keeping a pain diary for the crash insurance
Now this is a music thread, so what track would sum up your week of downs and ups?
Happy Friday everyone. Hubby and I are off to Winchester Christmas market today , hoping to pick up a few Christmas presents there. So my suggested words are
any song with the name of a town or country in it
a song about GIVING
My choices are
Winchester Cathedral by The New Vaudeville Band
