Painting to help relieve the stress…

THAT’S SO COOL  

Wonderful . I love that you do this .

Proper therapy in itself .

Court 

Wow, that's brilliant Sonibee. I intend to do some crafting too, I agree that it's therapeutic, your mind gets drawn into whatever you are doing/making. Today I started planting some seeds in my hobby room, I am damned if this op will stop me having flowers in the garden in the summer! They only need watching and watering at the moment but as I usually use this space for crafting I will have to wait until I have the space to craft again or may temporarily use the dining table (which I might get away with, OH normally moans about the mess, but maybe he'll be lenient with me just now lol). I wanted to get the messy planting bit out of the way before my op next Tuesday, also I want keep busy to stop me overthinking. My sewing machine has been put away for a while so I will have to find something else, maybe make some greetings cards. Whatever it is it won't be anywhere near as impressive as your painting, it's awesome.

 Jilly1 - I find gardening very relaxing and therapeutic too! Just that the weather wasn’t great after my op - but I’m really looking forward to the spring.

I agree that hobbies help keep the mind distracted- it doesn’t take away ‘the reality’ of what we are going through, nor the pain - but I found that post-operatively, painting gave some structure to my day and bursts of distraction (even if for 30 minutes).

I love this painting! 

 I had that all planned, I was going to WRITE through chemo/radio...not about cancer, just write that novel or several I have had  inside me for a while( just like the damn tumour in my rectum!) Broke my arm 3 weeks before treatment started so still haven't done it. But creativity and distraction are great, would recommend to anyone.