When I was going through my treatment I often had those nasty depressing “what if” thoughts. Someone suggested that every time I had a horrible thought about something bad that might happen that I should think instead of something good to hope for. I decided that was a great idea and as it was becoming a long list I started writing my wishes down in a little book.
Every now and then it really makes my day when one of these good things comes true. It happened recently when a certain 70s pop group I like were reunited, but sadly I can’t tell you about that as I promised before in this blog that I would never mention their name again. However something even better happened from my list last weekend. Great Britain won the Davis Cup!
A friend of mine is into sports betting and she often makes very helpful suggestions. I am reminded of a tip she gave me in 1985. She passed on the name of a young lad who’d she’d seen play tennis who she reckoned was good enough to win Wimbledon. The odds at the time were 500-1. I did get as far as the door of the bookmakers one day but I’d forgotten his name. I have never since forgotten the name Boris Becker, which I only remembered when he triumphantly raised the trophy over his head a few months later. My friend went on holiday to California with her winnings and since then I’ve never ignored any of her tips. So thanks to her I did have a modest but profitable flutter on GB winning the Davis Cup this year.
So now the tennis excitement has died down it’s time to get ready for Christmas. My preparations have been unfortunately delayed because Husband went into the loft to search for the tree decorations and instead found evidence of mice. A pest controller has been urgently summoned which will solve my ponderings on what to spend my winnings on!
I’m reminded this time of year that I was very lucky that cancer never spoilt Christmas for me. I was diagnosed at the beginning of 2013 and by Christmas that year the treatment was all over and I was looking forward to getting back to work. So my thoughts are particularly with everyone going through treatment at the moment, and with anyone for whom this Christmas is going to be a difficult time.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all. xx
