New hobbies

Hi Joannie and welcome, unfortunately,
It feels like a lifetime when faced with a projected time frame like 12 or 18 months, doesn't it, but it does whittle away if you can surrender to the present and rack up 1 da, 1 treatment, 1 procedure at a time.
I'm now approaching the end of 6 months of chemo and I swear, at first I thought it would be endless but it has swum along.
My instinct was to take time off and it proved right. I had a rough time with first chemo and feel the time to just keep healing and get well has been well spent.
A long leisurely walk, every day works wonders if possible and I do origami and have set a knitting project, extra long burgundy wool jumper with online order from Bendigo wool mills. back and half of front done so far..might even get there before winter..
i find it meditative. 
Next is surgery and reconstruction. Am hoping to be feeling normal in 3 or 4 months.
Best of luck with the first step and each and every one after that.
A.

Having accepted that this whole performance is going to take at least 12 months, I've been trying to work through a list of crappy tasks I have been avoiding. That might not sound much fun but you'd be surprised at how satisfying a clean store room can be. Ditto a decluttered filing cabinet. The cupboard under the laundry sink is civilised! Yeah, I'm sort of joking, but my point is treatment time can be an opportunity to sort some stuff out. Quite a job when you are as spectacularly adverse to all things domestic as I am. 

I have also finished painting all the fiddly bits around the windows at the back of the house, and the garden looks as good as can be expected in this weather. I've just put my new computer desk together which is made out of my house's original 1920s dunny door. Looks fantastic but I will be on here this afternoon bleating for support after the trauma of trying to set up a brand new computer, printer, monitor and webcam. Strange and cruel punishment, but it will all be sooo shiny and nice. And it may encourage me to find some work I can do from home. 

Hi @Joannie, Welcome. I didn't take up any unusual hobbies. I was given a colouring in book which I found to be brilliant (used to do posters called doodle arts a million years ago) and I found the colouring in particularly good for when my concentration was lacking. I also had on hand a latch hook rug kit, knitting, and worked my way through some fantastic books, oh and computer games. What are you currently entertaining yourself with? Let us know how your going. All the best. Xx Cath