Hello, again... To my favourite readers!
So, the end of 2015 is upon us and I just wanted to write this Thursday's blog post about this year to be honest!
I came into 2015 having beaten cancer just a few months before for the second time after undergoing such a hard year for myself and my family. I started chemotherapy again, had an 11 hour operation then wasn't even woken up until the next day just to make sure that I was stable. I then had a stem cell harvest ready for my stem cell transplant, then had to go through an incredibly intense and strong round of chemotherapy so that it would wipe out all of my cells ready for the new healthy ones. After that came the hardest 6 and a half weeks of my 2014. I was unbelievably ill and struggled a hell of a lot. There were many times where I wanted to just give it all up and go home but deep down I knew that to get better, I had to see this gruelling time through until the end. I had my transplant over two days because I collected so many cells when I had my stem cell harvest. It was absolute agony and I was so glad when those two days were over. I never had to do it again and I was so glad about that.
2015!
Thursday, 3 December 2015
Happy Thursday, guys!
I hope that you're all well and that you're all having a good week so far.
I also hope that you all liked last week's blog post and that the breathing exercises etc helped any of you that suffer with a fear of hospitals or if you struggle with anxiety and panic attacks. The breathing exercises especially, really help me!
I haven't been well at all this week and have been in hospital over yesterday and today so because of that I haven't been able to prepare one of my usual blog posts as I just haven't felt well enough at all. So, this weeks blog post is going to be different to all of the other posts that I've done. I'm going to do a chatty kind of post, I will let you know briefly how I've been over the last few months and I also have a couple of topics to speak to you all about, too!
The last time I updated you on my blog about my health right now was when I wrote my 'The Second Part Of My Cancer Journey' post back on the 15th of October and I said that I had just finished day four of my second cycle of chemotherapy. I went on to finish that cycle, but unfortunately just a few days later I ended up back in intensive care and I wasn't well at all. I had an awful chest infection, throat infection, fluid on my lung, my kidneys were (and still are) struggling and leaking, then my blood pressure was way too low, heart rate was dangerously high and my temperature kept being too high. So its safe to say that I wasn't well at all. I was in hospital for 10 days in all.
I hope that you're all well and that you're all having a good week so far.
I also hope that you all liked last week's blog post and that the breathing exercises etc helped any of you that suffer with a fear of hospitals or if you struggle with anxiety and panic attacks. The breathing exercises especially, really help me!
I haven't been well at all this week and have been in hospital over yesterday and today so because of that I haven't been able to prepare one of my usual blog posts as I just haven't felt well enough at all. So, this weeks blog post is going to be different to all of the other posts that I've done. I'm going to do a chatty kind of post, I will let you know briefly how I've been over the last few months and I also have a couple of topics to speak to you all about, too!
The last time I updated you on my blog about my health right now was when I wrote my 'The Second Part Of My Cancer Journey' post back on the 15th of October and I said that I had just finished day four of my second cycle of chemotherapy. I went on to finish that cycle, but unfortunately just a few days later I ended up back in intensive care and I wasn't well at all. I had an awful chest infection, throat infection, fluid on my lung, my kidneys were (and still are) struggling and leaking, then my blood pressure was way too low, heart rate was dangerously high and my temperature kept being too high. So its safe to say that I wasn't well at all. I was in hospital for 10 days in all.
Thursday, 26 November 2015
Well, hey!
It's Thursday, which means that it is blog post day... Again!
In my last post I explained that I have been feeling quite down recently and I got amazing amounts of love following me uploading that post, so thank you for that. You all never fail to make me smile or push me forward to carry on.
I am always getting direct messages on Twitter or inboxes on Facebook from different people explaining that my blog posts or my positive tweets help them so much and it makes me so happy to know that me writing a blog post on a different topic each week is helping some of you to face the things that you're going through or struggling with, becoming more positive or helping yourself to become happier etc etc. I've always wanted to help and inspire people, so to be told that you're doing just that 'every day' (in their words) from going through what I am or just by writing these blog posts means so, so much.
I have been asked since I started this blog, A Little Touch Of Hope, to write about having a fear of anything hospital related and to write about if I have any fears when it comes down to going to hospital. So, here we go!
It's Thursday, which means that it is blog post day... Again!
In my last post I explained that I have been feeling quite down recently and I got amazing amounts of love following me uploading that post, so thank you for that. You all never fail to make me smile or push me forward to carry on.
I am always getting direct messages on Twitter or inboxes on Facebook from different people explaining that my blog posts or my positive tweets help them so much and it makes me so happy to know that me writing a blog post on a different topic each week is helping some of you to face the things that you're going through or struggling with, becoming more positive or helping yourself to become happier etc etc. I've always wanted to help and inspire people, so to be told that you're doing just that 'every day' (in their words) from going through what I am or just by writing these blog posts means so, so much.
I have been asked since I started this blog, A Little Touch Of Hope, to write about having a fear of anything hospital related and to write about if I have any fears when it comes down to going to hospital. So, here we go!
Thursday, 19 November 2015
Hey doll faces!
I hope you're all well and having a great week so far. Well, it is a Thursday so that means its blog post day... YAY! So I've always wanted this blog to have posts relating to positivity and bettering your life in some way etc. But when you're not in the right place to write these kind of posts, they cannot be forced which is something that I don't want to do. I didn't not want to post a blog post this week so I figured that I would write about how I'm feeling at the minute as I'm sure a lot of you have been in the same kind of place that I'm in right now. Maybe me blogging about this could help some of you in some way, who knows. I hope it does. Here goes...
Like when you're having a bad hair day (Except I don't have any hair, haha!), sometimes we can get to a point in our lives where we're a little 'down in the dumps' as I like to call it. Yes, I have felt a bit down for the last couple of weeks. There is reasoning behind this but I feel that I would rather keep this quiet. I know that some people have noticed that I haven't been my usual self recently. I have still been positive and happy in some sense, but obviously I'm not going to be 100% all of the time. Whether that be because I don't feel well or because I'm just genuinely fed up with what I'm having to go through right now.
Thursday, 12 November 2015
Hello guys!
I've been really thinking recently about friendships and the people that I have around me right now. Plus wracking my brains about the people that I honestly THOUGHT were my friends. Going through what I am, I obviously need my friends. I really wish things turned out differently with certain people, but hey, that's life!
Sometimes, you can think that you have 'friends for life', then realise later on that you never really did at all.
You can meet people in life and just automatically click with them. The best friendships are when you feel totally comfortable with them and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything that you're not. That's how it should be. I've realised that you don't need loads of friends, you just need a small group of real ones.
I've been really thinking recently about friendships and the people that I have around me right now. Plus wracking my brains about the people that I honestly THOUGHT were my friends. Going through what I am, I obviously need my friends. I really wish things turned out differently with certain people, but hey, that's life!
Sometimes, you can think that you have 'friends for life', then realise later on that you never really did at all.
You can meet people in life and just automatically click with them. The best friendships are when you feel totally comfortable with them and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything that you're not. That's how it should be. I've realised that you don't need loads of friends, you just need a small group of real ones.
Thursday, 5 November 2015
Hey lovelies!
Firstly, I would like to apologise for the fact that I didn't upload a post last week. This was because I was taken into intensive care so I physically wasn't well enough to post. I know a lot of people on Twitter understand that though.
Also, I want to start this weeks post off by saying that I hope that you're all having the best week that you can so far. If not, it can only get better. I know mine has!
I'm going to start this off by speaking about negativity. I know a lot of the people that tweet and direct message me on Twitter go through stuff with their life day to day and find it quite difficult. So I just wanted to touch on this first as I think its important to speak about.
Going about your day to day life with constant negative thoughts are always bound to weigh a person down not just mentally but physically, too. It has been said on numerous occasions that if you surround yourself and your life with negativity, you're going to end up finding yourself in a bad place and in time, fighting a losing battle. Nobody wants that. You need to make sure that you're making time out for yourself. Make time to do something that makes YOU truly happy. Anything that you can focus yourself with is great. This is so important.
Firstly, I would like to apologise for the fact that I didn't upload a post last week. This was because I was taken into intensive care so I physically wasn't well enough to post. I know a lot of people on Twitter understand that though.
Also, I want to start this weeks post off by saying that I hope that you're all having the best week that you can so far. If not, it can only get better. I know mine has!
I'm going to start this off by speaking about negativity. I know a lot of the people that tweet and direct message me on Twitter go through stuff with their life day to day and find it quite difficult. So I just wanted to touch on this first as I think its important to speak about.
Going about your day to day life with constant negative thoughts are always bound to weigh a person down not just mentally but physically, too. It has been said on numerous occasions that if you surround yourself and your life with negativity, you're going to end up finding yourself in a bad place and in time, fighting a losing battle. Nobody wants that. You need to make sure that you're making time out for yourself. Make time to do something that makes YOU truly happy. Anything that you can focus yourself with is great. This is so important.
Saturday, 24 October 2015
Hey everyone!
I am back with post number four, YAY!
Again, I would just like to thank you all so much for reading my last blog post which was the second part of my cancer story. I'd also like to thank everybody for continuing to send me so much love. It genuinely makes me so happy to get messages to say that my posts are helping them and that I keep them going, it means so much to me. My whole blog so far has been a bigger success than I EVER thought that it was going to be. For example, this is only post number four and I have had THOUSANDS of views on each post. That is an INSAAANE amount and I cant thank everybody enough for reading each post and for all of your support and well wishes so far. They mean that you can imagine.
For this weeks blog post I'm going to be doing a Q&A (question and answer) so that you can all get to know me more and have all of the questions that you may have, answered! I got SO excited over the idea of this and I couldn't wait to get stuck right into all of the questions that I got sent!
So... Lets get started!
I am back with post number four, YAY!
Again, I would just like to thank you all so much for reading my last blog post which was the second part of my cancer story. I'd also like to thank everybody for continuing to send me so much love. It genuinely makes me so happy to get messages to say that my posts are helping them and that I keep them going, it means so much to me. My whole blog so far has been a bigger success than I EVER thought that it was going to be. For example, this is only post number four and I have had THOUSANDS of views on each post. That is an INSAAANE amount and I cant thank everybody enough for reading each post and for all of your support and well wishes so far. They mean that you can imagine.
For this weeks blog post I'm going to be doing a Q&A (question and answer) so that you can all get to know me more and have all of the questions that you may have, answered! I got SO excited over the idea of this and I couldn't wait to get stuck right into all of the questions that I got sent!
So... Lets get started!
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