The Butterfly Who Flapped Too Hard

  • Mrs Blobby

    I think this is a fairly accurate interpretation of me right now.

    As mentioned before I have PCOS - that helps me put on weight and makes it harder for me to lose it, I also have a complete thyroid removal making me technically hypo - which helps you put on weight, and because of the cancer I have a lot of pain and lethargy making me fairly immobile - which means no exercise, which means weight gain. Lose, lose, lose…

  • Turmeric will cure you!

    Excuse the language, but will it f***!

    In the 4 and a bit years I've been at this, I have lost track of the number of times I've heard the above, been linked to the above, been given articles cut out from magazines on the above. Then there's all the other things that fall into this same vein that amount to 'if you just did x, then you'll be cured.' Trying to think over them all, I've definitely had the following; If…

  • Cancer; causes, cures, and cakes.

    First off, as a random aside, LID is well and truly out of the window today as lunch consisted of a bed of a sandwich. It was a mattress made of Hovis seeded bread, with a mattress cover of butter, made up with a sheet of tart mayonnaise. Then prawns and perfectly ripe avocado were tucked into bed, with a duvet of smoked salmon. I was planning a yoghurt as pudding, but after one slice, I felt ill so had to give up on…

  • Something to ponder

    Just having a muse after hearing from a friend, that a mutual friend was asking after me and asking how things were going for me. So I thought I'd turn here to ponder and muse, and maybe make others think too.

    Why do we as a society, ask people how other people are doing instead of asking the person themselves how they are?

    I mean, think about it. In this day and age with all sorts of communication devices and apps…

  • I'm now part Lizard!

    You might laugh, but it's true! I think the radiation has indeed mutated me - finally - but stillno signs of super powers, unless they've yet to develop.

    So, I used to always be too hot. It didn't matter what the weather was doing, or where I was, I was always toasty warm. Snowing? Perfect temp for walking around in a short sleeved top. I even went to the ice bar in Oslo a few years ago, and was too warm and…