Definitely a popular topic you posed @DuncanB, and really interesting how many ways we all keep track of our lives. It’s so cool that you have such a selection of fish vans!!! 1000 miles per week sounds bonkers, he must enjoy driving as much as providing sustenance. Beginning to plan a road trip for this summer actually, it may well stretch to hundreds of miles and include lots of food! The closest to your fish vans here would be a paletero passing in summer singing about their ice lollies in Spanish! Sadly there’ll probably be less of that this year with the other kind of ICE being around ![]()
Glad to read you’re finding your Oura helpful too @Spangleystar, it’s been a revelation for me seeing my various statistics and being able to work with or respond to them, like the physiological stress you mention. Restoring energy is essential too, like dear @Jules says. I am indeed in California, in the San Francisco Bay Area, somehow coexisting with the threats of wildfires, earthquakes and tech billionaires ![]()
Funny you should mention the sun here as it’s often filtered through Karl the fog, like today, but it’s definitely cured my former SAD! Nothing quite like dosing up on vitamin D naturally. Sounds like you’re in my old neck of the woods on the south coast so I trust it’s as beautiful and open-minded as ever. We might have been neighbours!
I love that you found tracking stuff helpful @Bearnasty and wonder if those undiagnosed traits might really benefit from the order you find in keeping track? For me seeing facts written down really helps quiet anxiety or when thoughts are racing. Perhaps you might find an Myeloproliferative neoplasms ('MPN') symptom tracker useful, especially early on when treatments are starting and changing more often? Here’s one that Nurse @Heidi_BloodCancerUK has shared that you might find useful: https://uk.mpn.your-symptom-questionnaire.com/
And dear @Erica and @Nichola75, isn’t this thread a lovely reminder of just how supportive and widespread we forum members and our experiences can be?! It’s so great to read what helps us. Lots of new ideas too!
Just a thought but as people have mentioned how important music is maybe we could resurrect the Friday jukebox club?! I’ll add a link to it for newer forum folks: The Friday Forum Jukebox Club!