Tag: recovery

The best medicine…..

….is not laughter after all.
(Maybe laughter is the second best.)

Bah! revisited: Eye eye

When I reread this post, first published in July last year, I had such a rush of remembered feeling: the thrill of walking back from the chemist’s that day has a big pin in it on the map of my recovery.
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I woke up yesterday morning to find that I had conjunctivitis. Have you ever had [...]

Higher and higher

Recovering from cancer treatment is a gradual process. Hair comes millimetre by wished-for millimetre. Breathlessness hits at the third step of a flight of stairs, then the fourth, then the fifth. Cramp makes you scream and cry, then just scream, then gibber, then you’re saying ‘Ow! cramp again!’ and turning over and going back to [...]