I know that started this brilliant idea so I wanted to carry it on for her and as the forum has become a little gloomy recently as we face loosing them both soon.
So
1. daloni and dizzie outlasted their prognosis by years and I am sure proved that you can have quality of life despite doctors best guesses and we all benefited from knowing them on here.
2. I just got back from a fabulous holiday in Galicia, northern Spain. I walked more than I have for months (chemo pushed me into a wheelchair) the food and wine was fab and I met old friends and laughed a lot.
3. Macmillan have admitted that their upgrade has been a bit sh*t and are working on improving it. Hurrah for Macmillan who have admitted it didn't go well. How many organisations actually come out and say that.
I don't like to think that newbies think that we are a miserable lot, what struck me on here when I came was how much joy, laughter and living went on despite cancer.
Nicky
Right, here we go for my first ever 3 good things.
1. Had my second vaccination, my wife has hers in 2 weeks and she's beginning to get a little confidence to travel to see our new granddaughter who will be born in around 3 weeks.
2, Spent around an hour and a half of quality time with my youngest son (37). Although he still lives with us I don't often spend so much time with him but he went with me to the Ulster hospital just outside Belfast where I had my vaccination.
3. When I was parking at the hospital, my best mate from the MacMillan exercise class parked alongside me. I thought I might see him because he was there when I had my first vaccination but we didn't get much of a chance to talk then. This time though, he was put in the same bay me after we had our jabs. Apart from a passing hello at the time of our first vaccination, it was the first time in over a year that we had a chance to talk because our class has been suspended for over a year since the virus rudely interrupted our lives. We're looking forward to seeing each other again when the class resumes, hopefully soon. Week after week for about 3 years we were paired with each other for the exercises.
So that's it folks my first ever 3 good things. I could have said that Mrs Tvman and I finished our (very painful) project to clear a bank of shrubs and replant it with 8 azaleas and 2 dwarf rhododendrons but I'll post about that in the gardening thread.
Take care everyone
Tvman x
Oh dear Simon, you've done the right thing, how would you manage if you tore a tendon by pulling up a weed. Better safe than sorry my friend.
Tvman
Stuart, I hadn't thought of that!
Tvman
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