Happy World Kindness Day!
The ‘Random Acts Of Kindness’ team have posted a helpful link to a list of ideas 7 ways to save the world (from your couch)
Last Saturday evening I met a lovely group of ladies at the Norwich NEESA group. Hajira invited me to go along and share my cancer experience with the group. I was a bit nervous but excited too. I would really like to be able to use this experience to help other people understand the importance of being aware of changes in and on your body and doing regular self examinations.
I keep talking about it but the absolute worst thing about this situation is the effect that it has on everyone around me. Having to tell people that I have stage 4 breast cancer is really hard. But it would have been much harder if I had not regularly done self exams or worse still had been invited to have a mammogram and had chosen not to go. I don’t think I would be able to look people in the eye and that is what I want to share with the world!
Those of you that know me well will know that I don’t usually have any problem talking about myself, in fact it is my specialist subject 🙂 so you may be surprised that I was a little nervous. They were such a lovely group of ladies and quickly put me at ease. It was actually quite therapeutic talking to a group of new people about our experience during the last six months. The best thing was the great sense of achievement that I felt once I’d finished, I really felt as if my story had connected with that group and that it may make a difference to one of them. I really hope it did.
This week my old friend Pernilla came to visit. (Old in terms of the length of friendship rather than years of age… she is 2 months younger than me!) Pernilla brought a sewing project and her sewing machine with her and we spent the best part of 3 days sewing. I had a really lovely time, I enjoyed sewing with a companion far more than I had expected, it was really fun. I can’t tell you what I made because they will be Christmas presents for people who read this blog, but I was very pleased with them.
I hope you have a fabulous weekend
Talk to you soon
Lots of love Mand xx
Hello lovely Amanda – I cannot begin to tell you how fantastic you were last Saturday – I have had so many messages of thanks for you and so many messages from women telling me that they really felt touched by your message – I will do a hands up for how many are now checking this coming month. It was so lovely to see you again – you know that you are always welcome to pop in when you are over at the N and N or in Norwich. Love and best wishes Hajira
PS we are heart making tomorrow – do you have anywhere in particular that you would like some donated to?
I loved sewing together and would never have managed such a good result without your help, ideas and moral support!
And it was fantastic to see you and Phil – thank you so much for having me!!
xxx