Kezzerbird....been behaving myself!!!!

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How lovely to see a pm from nutcracker today wondering if I am ok. Yes I am. One of my goals is to write a book on my C experience and it is bloody hard work you know!!!!! It is a compilation of emotions that cover the full spectrum, happiness, sadness, up and downs, some serious stuff and some very funny stuff too. I have to do this in stages because it can get to much at times and it reminds me of some things I would rather forget and makes me asks questions, the main one being 'How the hell am I still going' Answers on a postcard please!!!!!! UMMM what else have I been up too, not alot really, made some apple brandy which is cuddled up to my sloe gin in a nice dark place waiting for the day when the bird sets it free, well pours it into a glass!!!!! I pulled up the rest of my parsnips and turnips and made myself a huge saucepan of chicken stew ith apple dumplings, it was lovely but I am sick of stew now!!! I chopped loads of apples up and put them in the freezer and the next thing on my list is packing the cases for my hols on the Llangollen canal on a 'mental boat' called Elvind, ohhhhh 2 weeks of sheer bliss with happiness on a stick aka Kev and the crazy mutt Summit, I leave on Sunday, so don't panic if I go quiet. I have chemo tomorrow, that is the 3rd one of this cycle and when I get back from my hols I will be having a scan to see if it as worked this time, so fingers crossed on that one. Also when I return, the work will start on my gas central heating, so the Bird will be warm this winter instead of freezing my arse off, good bye to the polar bears in my bathroom!!!! Right tis time, has we say in Cornwall for a bucket of tea and because the cyber slaps that I requested from you guys weren't hard enough, it is almost time for Jeremy Kyle and for me to scream at the TV. Love and hugs to those who want them....Carol x

I am not dying of cancer, I am living with it

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    the drinks are definatly on you apple brandy yum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    I am canal boating on October 19th - Me, my brother, Picko and Ron. Bit of a cancer crew. Picko has kidney cancer, Ron's wife recently died of lung cancer. Good luck with your book - have you got a publisher yet? I keep promising myself that I will edit my ramblings for publication. The reason why you keep going is threefold. One - the "afterlife" isn't ready for you yet, two us Maclanders are right behind you and ready to give you a proverbial kick up the (tattooed) bum when you falter and last but not least you ain't gonna give in.

    Keep smiling

    love

    Drew

    X

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    Carol about the book....something I just read this minute in Guardian Weekend 25/09/10 about Jonathan Franzan talking about his novel 'Freedom' that I wanted to share with you.  "........Much of the unseen work in the book was overcoming resistance to writing about unwritable material."

    That sounds like therapy.

    "I didn't mean it as a therapy. But to say that you have been changed by the work on a book - by the process of getting the book to be writable - is not bad. In fact, if a writer can't say that, I have a suspician it's not a book I want to read"

    He makes me underline that comment.

    "I feel I said something I really meant when I said that."

    Don't forget your Elvish dictionary for the boat trip.

    XXOllie

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    Hi Carol, Have a lovely time on your boat,hope the weather is kind to you.Will have my fingers crossed that all goes well with your scan,and i am looking forward to reading your book  one day soon.

    Best wishes  Sue xx

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    Hey there Carol, I don't believe the title of this blog for one minute "been behaving myself" never 'eard such utter nonsense.

    You are more and more like a superhero as you write........I state in evidence:

    The fact you grow your own veg & do lotsa home cooking and brewing by day.........

    But by night you become the "doorbitch".......that superhero name has evolved from your job and your belt - I wasn't being rude to her folks, honest!  You hang out in nightclubs till all hours showing the Big C who's boss.

    Drews right, you are one, as the americans would say "fierce" lady and that is a compliment.  I love the fact you take no crap and although have been through a pretty poo time yourself, always make time for others on here = not to mention all the laughs you give us.

    Have a fab holiday on the mental boat, will expect photos xx