Health & Fitness

  • Relieving Anxiety – During an MRI  Scan

    Relieving Anxiety – During an MRI Scan

    Having just got out of my 3rd MRI scan in 5 Months for 3 different conditions I thought I would write a little post on what I found helped keep me calm during the scans. Before I start I just want to tell you that the first scan was while I was pregnant and…

  • Friday Morning Cuppa & A Chat. – Sometimes it takes a stranger …….

    Friday Morning Cuppa & A Chat. – Sometimes it takes a stranger …….

    To realise how lucky you really are!! (This post has been sat in my drafts. I thought it had been published. I wrote it back in September. ) Your family, & friends and people you know to say hello to down the street can tell you how well you are doing, how they can’t…

  • Village life

    Village life

      You wanna go where people know, people are all the same, You wanna go where everybody knows your name. – Cheers Theme Tune  Where Everybody Knows Your Name by Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo When I was a teenager I did everything to leave the small town that I have lived in since…

  • I survived….. Just!  Part 4, I’m Home well for a while.

    I survived….. Just! Part 4, I’m Home well for a while.

    As I’m writing this we have been home 7 weeks!  My recovery is going well but slower than I would like. I try to push myself and then end up feeling poorly so I need to learn to take it easier. We arrived home Tuesday evening quite late. I needed to sleep and was…

  • Grateful Sunday!

    Grateful Sunday!

    This week I decided to start a daily gratitude list. I have done it before both on my own and as a family – We would send our list to each other (Myself Hubby & Stepson) via our family messenger group! It really helped especially when hubby worked away and with stepson only being…