Why are there no longer steamer trunks – the QE2 guests had them for the world cruise and I could clearly do with a couple for my 12 days away from home …. there is simply no energy to pack light! The other heavy baggage I take along is grief. My insta friend Erin passed …
Category Archives: Cancer
14 August 2018
No blog post today – I only post this for you not to worry, if I am silent!
13 August 2018
Meditation – this is something literally everyone recommended I should do after I got my diagnosis… but how?!?! I had some experience with guided meditations through my travels and yoga practices, but needed to find a way to bring regularity into this….. I quickly discovered Headspace (thanks Oli!) and when I could no longer run …
12 August 2018
#BraveBrightBeautiful – that’s what I want to be, but in the mornings it’s normally #OldTiredStiff…. not today though…. I am waken by some rays of sunshine on my face at 9:00am – peace, quietness and warmth fill the room and I can just turn around, linger in bed and have a first quiet coffee, while …
11 August 2018
My kids are going for a few days to my Mum’s before we pick them up for our holidays…. I want to spoil them beforehand, give Markus a lay in, make yellow and green pancakes, play silly games and let them watch their first 20 minutes of Sesame Street – ever – and it brings …
10 August 2018
Teeth – I never had good ones and I was always scared of losing them, had horrible dentist visits and the simple thought of visiting a dentist would give me shivers – not even the little rubber animals I was rewarded with could help! Yes, I definitely ate too much candy, the creaking of my …
9 August 2018
„I am telling you for the last time“ chemo nurse Fassbender gives me a lecture.., and I know that she means well! „You have to say good bye to your cancer – tell him that in November you are parting ways!“ It makes me think, yes, definitely we are going separate ways, yes, I need …
8 August 2018
It is amazingly warm at almost 30 degrees at 11pm, when Simone and I cycle back from the Philharmonia concert „The 27 Club“…. it feels like I am in a mediterannean country, as the warm air blows trough my hair and the Rhine river sparkles in the night… I am filled with happiness as I …
7 August 2018
Renewal of eyelashes happens serenely every few months…. generally it is a gradual process, but for me, my new lashes decide to renew themselves all at once! Now is there any need for that?!? I heard that after a while it goes back to a gradual renewal… fingers crossed that this won’t be too long! …
6 August 2018
🎵🎶🎵 Monday – Music therapy day….oh what joy! I am glad we sing not only English and German, but also African and Maori songs, as my mind does not attach to the words – I actually have no clue what it means or quickly forget it and my mind takes off on little adventurous journeys. …
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