Since this weekend and in time for the beginning of spring, we are proud owners of a so called step tandem. I can step in front as stoker, secured with a belt, or let it go. The tandem has a freewheel for the front drive! And we both have a view to the front, because we are sitting on different heights. Because of my epilepsy I can’t do water sports anymore and should avoid overexertion. Therefore this tandem is the ideal »sports equipment« for both of us.
Wherever I am in the doctor’s office, I have a nose ready for every employee or patient. The laughing success proves me right. And it also releases endorphins from me.
After a long time I’ll get back to you. This time with a laughing eye.
After I wasn’t doing so well for a few weeks, I’ve been on my way up again for 3 weeks. A colleague of Marc’s recommended the book »Medicines as micronutrient predators« and it turned out that I had a considerable lack of vitamins D and B12. My muscles had weakened and I had a constant tremor in my arms and legs. Since I am supplied with vitamin D and B12, I feel much better.
The red nose is to be understood as a sign that no one have to look at me compassionately, but can laugh gladly with me. Even though I’m still in chemotherapy, I’m looking very confidently to the future.
I still have many »construction sites« to complete, but like Hafencity, I am looking forward to a positive future. This quotation from Tom Hanks goes well with that:
Never give up because you don’t know what the tide will bring the next day.
That this would not be an easy walk was already clear to me at the end of April when I got the diagnosis »brain tumor« in the hospital Buchholz. But what a storm I would have to face, with all its ups and downs, can only be understood by those who have experienced it themselves.
Therefore, my heartfelt thanks to all those who have accompanied me on this path and continue to do so. I carry them deeply in my heart.
Dr. Langer and Dr. Lücke, from the Asklepios Clinic Altona, without whose surgical interventions I would probably not be among you today,
the care teams from the Intensive Care Unit, the Intermediate Care Unit and the Neurological Unit of the Asklepios Clinic Altona,
the teams from the neurological ward of the rehabilitation centre in Soltau
and, of course, physiotherapy and occupational therapy, what have they pushed me!
Not to forget the speech therapists.
The care and respect with which all these teams have worked deserves my respect. I can only express all my admiration and gratitude to these teams. They never let me feel the nursing crisis, although I know it exists in Germany.
The practice team around Dr. Seehars,
the team of the Epilepsy Center Rotenburg around Dr. Streger,
Dr. Schieder’s oncology team,
my friends and neighbors who are always there for me when I need your help.
My special thanks go to my family, especially my husband and son. What my husband gives me in love and support cannot be expressed in words and I am infinitely grateful to him. The three of us cried and laughed together – priceless.
It is hard for outsiders to imagine how my illness turned my life and that of my immediate family upside down. But we stick together and gain strength for our future, as the saying goes:
Yesterday is history
tomorrow is a mystery
but today is a gift.
That is why it’s called the present.
I’ve been blogging for 10 years now, more precisely since July 2008!
I can hardly believe that. Especially when you consider that followers have been there since the first day.
In the last 5 months it has been interrupted by clinic and rehabilitation stays, but so far there have been 1,172 posts and almost 2,000 comments!
This must be celebrated and therefore I draw a picture from my Hamburgensien series:
Anyone who comments on this post within the next 14 days will be entered into the draw. The closing date for entries is Sunday, 28 October 2018 at 12:00 pm CET.
