Chillaxing with Micky…. hmmm…. I could stay forever…. reading, sauna, swimming in Eibsee…. In the late afternoon we are driving back to Munich, where it apparently rained all day….I am exhausted from doing nothing….happy as can be and look forward to seeing Anna & my nephews before going to Freising to stay with Anke & …
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21 July 2018
I am sitting at the airport in the wee hours of the morning, being tired and listening to the introduction of the Untire app…. is it cancer fatigue?!? Surely not always… I had less the five hours of sleep ahead of me by the time I went to bed last night and the kids wake …
20 Juli 2018
A beautifully normal day comes to an end… the kids are in kindergarten, I have coffee with Nadine, run some errands, rest and pick up the kids…. it is summer in the city, life is easy and beautiful and if I wasn’t tired, it could just be any nice normal day off…. Mum arrives for …
19 July 2018
I can still do it…. I am still happy for other people and don’t begrudge someone their luck, their life and their happiness. Au contraire – it makes me happy to see their happiness! Meeting my friend Andrea’s baby, who is not even a week old, let’s my heart melt…. yes, I will never be …
18 July 2018
Here is a special recommendation – aloe vera infused hydrating gloves & socks with some kind of silicone or gel layer inside! Doro sent them to me as a gift after their trip to the Canary Islands and now they come in handy, as one major side effect of chemo pills is dry hands and …
17 July 2018
Help! This is a difficult one! How can one help? What is right? What is wrong? What is a no go?!? I wish there was that one answer that would always work, but there isn’t. What helps one day, does not work the next – at least for me! And what helps me, might not …
16 July 2018
The song „sleeping beauty was a pretty child“ is in my head as Mia rephrased it to „poo-poo was a pretty word“…. oh well! I shouldn’t, but I love it! Today is my day off after bringing the kids to kindergarten and I sleep, but feel that there is no improvement…. we could not get …
15 July 2018
You realize how much you enjoy a day, an evening, forget the whole cancer thing, when you realize at 1:00am that you forgot to take your chemo pills 🤦♀️ I am sleeping at Anke’s, have a little snack and take my chemo pills 30 min later…. we have an early wake-up call, as Anke works …
14 July 2018
Today I am on a secret mission and sleep is the key!! I sort all my stuff and am in bed by 1am, which I deeply regret as Mia cries at 5am and wants to join me…. thankfully she falls back asleep. Leo joins us just before 6am, snuggles, but is awake…. the minute he …
13 July 2018
Stuff, it is just useless stuff, which stresses me today! Why? I use the time while the kids are in Kindergarten to tidy the flat, prepare the folders for kindergarten and go to lymphdrainage, but I am restless….I have to pick the kids up at 1pm nowadays and three hours can be very short. I …