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Doing what you LOVE to do - before, during & after BC! What's YOUR favourite?
Hi guys
I am really lucky in that I have 2 BIG passions that consume a lot of my time ..... and (no surprise to some of you ....)
Ukulele Playing - this was a library gig we did last year .... (I am 4th from left, front row.) Our ages range from the 50s - 80s. Every 4-6 weeks we play 'gigs' at 4 Nursing Homes - and we practise weekly at another nursing home ... so I guess you can call us 'volunteers'?? Some of our members are older than the people we are playing for! LOL
and
Kayak Fishing - I love nothing more than hitting the lake with a bunch of buddies.
Yesterday, I was getting cabin fever from lack of fishing (wet & windy here for the last week), so I grabbed a warm jacket
& walked the edge of the Boat Ramp .... I was busted off on the first fish :( (a good sized Flattie from the power of it's head shakes!) then dropped the next few that spat the hook .... then finally landed another nice one, that came home for dinner!!
So WHAT IS IT that puts that 'gleam in YOUR eye' - is it Golf (I play it badly), Playing Bridge (never tried it - I think you have to be 'serious' to play Bridge), Singing (that goes hand in hand with Uke Playing), Community Groups/Volunteering, Tapestry, Running (I couldn't run round the block to save my life!), ..... that gets you out of bed quicker in the morning if you know you are going to 'do it' ........
How has your surgery/treatment impacted on you doing 'YOUR TIME" stuff? Have you had to stop doing it or can't do it as often due to your treatment? Do you find you find you are still expected to do EVERYTHING ELSE at the expense of 'Your Time'?
Prior to my surgery, my uke group were amongst my greatest allies - I had to tell them straight away as we were gearing up for a big performance at the Blue Mountains Uke Festival - and I didn't know if I would be there for them!! After my surgery, I was back playing again 2 weeks later - but was very mindful of where my uke sat - as it was right across the affected boob!! The Blue Mountains gig was 3 weeks after my surgery - and luckily, I made it!! 4 of my Uke group have had BC & were able to offer info & support.
My Fishing Buddies were also an immense support to me as well (as indeed they were when Hubby was going thru his cancer in 2010) - I've caught up with a fair few of them since I was diagnosed & it has just been terrific. A bunch of my kayak fishing ladies had also had BC and were a wonderful source of info & advice!
Part of my philosophy to recovery is to try & keep 'busy' with 'stuff' so that your mind is kept active & is a 'happy thing' compared to what we are going thru daily just now (Hmmmm - tho I REALLY should be decluttering our home - but that doesn't excite me as much! LOL)
SO, let's get a list going of all your favourite pastimes ..... then, if anyone on the forum is living near you or passing thru - you may be able to share your passion with them to help them 'while away' the time!!
I am really lucky in that I have 2 BIG passions that consume a lot of my time ..... and (no surprise to some of you ....)
Ukulele Playing - this was a library gig we did last year .... (I am 4th from left, front row.) Our ages range from the 50s - 80s. Every 4-6 weeks we play 'gigs' at 4 Nursing Homes - and we practise weekly at another nursing home ... so I guess you can call us 'volunteers'?? Some of our members are older than the people we are playing for! LOL
and
Kayak Fishing - I love nothing more than hitting the lake with a bunch of buddies.
Yesterday, I was getting cabin fever from lack of fishing (wet & windy here for the last week), so I grabbed a warm jacket
& walked the edge of the Boat Ramp .... I was busted off on the first fish :( (a good sized Flattie from the power of it's head shakes!) then dropped the next few that spat the hook .... then finally landed another nice one, that came home for dinner!!
So WHAT IS IT that puts that 'gleam in YOUR eye' - is it Golf (I play it badly), Playing Bridge (never tried it - I think you have to be 'serious' to play Bridge), Singing (that goes hand in hand with Uke Playing), Community Groups/Volunteering, Tapestry, Running (I couldn't run round the block to save my life!), ..... that gets you out of bed quicker in the morning if you know you are going to 'do it' ........
How has your surgery/treatment impacted on you doing 'YOUR TIME" stuff? Have you had to stop doing it or can't do it as often due to your treatment? Do you find you find you are still expected to do EVERYTHING ELSE at the expense of 'Your Time'?
Prior to my surgery, my uke group were amongst my greatest allies - I had to tell them straight away as we were gearing up for a big performance at the Blue Mountains Uke Festival - and I didn't know if I would be there for them!! After my surgery, I was back playing again 2 weeks later - but was very mindful of where my uke sat - as it was right across the affected boob!! The Blue Mountains gig was 3 weeks after my surgery - and luckily, I made it!! 4 of my Uke group have had BC & were able to offer info & support.
My Fishing Buddies were also an immense support to me as well (as indeed they were when Hubby was going thru his cancer in 2010) - I've caught up with a fair few of them since I was diagnosed & it has just been terrific. A bunch of my kayak fishing ladies had also had BC and were a wonderful source of info & advice!
Part of my philosophy to recovery is to try & keep 'busy' with 'stuff' so that your mind is kept active & is a 'happy thing' compared to what we are going thru daily just now (Hmmmm - tho I REALLY should be decluttering our home - but that doesn't excite me as much! LOL)
SO, let's get a list going of all your favourite pastimes ..... then, if anyone on the forum is living near you or passing thru - you may be able to share your passion with them to help them 'while away' the time!!
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- Hey @Harvey1903 I play golf too (badly - so I don't have a 'handicap' as such - except perhaps just the fact that I play! LOL!) Then 10 years ago I got frozen shoulder & it took 2 years to 'come back' - then the other one went bung too but it took 4 years to come good ..... so I haven't played in years! :(
Hubby & I were just talking about having a hit last week! ;) We MUST do it soon - but sadly it takes 2nd string to my uke & yak fishing!! Hubby is a natural - I find that my 'squash swing' helped me big time! ;)
All the best for your first 'go' since diagnosis - take it a tad slowly at first - you may not be able to do the full 'back slapping follow thru' that you've been used to. ;) - @Annie C, thank you for the lovely photos, you have made my afternoon, love the frog and the croc is just fantastic love the expression on its face, I am always in awe of ladies who can do this, I can only manage cobble stitches in anything I do I guess I am a payer and not a dooer, so have to buy these beautiful items, lovely to hear about everyones favourite past times,
wendy55 - @"Annie C" How are you for fabric sources in Melbourne? I have two very good friends who have mountains of fabric and know lots of good places to shop. I can hit them up for a list of good places if you like.
Can't wait to meet you. And work out our identifier... as long as it's not pink!
K xox :) - @Annie C - you must be somewhere near Katherine, with the bats and Boab trees?
- Envious - crafty I'm not. I would love to have the patience to do that. Great job. Nobody is playing golf! That's me. Although haven't been on the course for four weeks due to the two op's. But I'm on the course this Sunday for the first time since diagnosed. I'll be interestiing to see if my swing has changed now I'm a bit out of balance so to speak.
- My husband and I travelled through the Kimberley region pre-kids and absolutely loved it. I remember the line of cliffs so clearly and driving the dirt roads, knowing there'd be a creek bed coming up because of the boabs.
- @kmakm I can't wait for the conference in Melbourne. Only 62 sleeps to go before I leave for Perth and then 2 more and I am in Melbourne. I will be spending a week in Melbourne, from
9 August to 17 August.
Only spoiling time between now and Melbourne is my 12 month scans in Perth at the end of June. However what ever happens at the scans will just have to wait until after Melbourne.
Definitely want to meet up with "sista" members. We will need some identifying methods as to who we are. I will be the strange "lady" dressed in out of fashion Antartic clothing and probably shivering!!
@Sister Mystery Road is excellent. It was filmed around Wyndham just 700 kms up the road from us. Similiar country. And the dialogue, scenes and behaviour is true to form. What we see every day! Ian, my husband, and myself are totally absorbed in it, so much so, that we are recording it to watch again later.
Speaking of boabs I have a huge boab with a girth of 7 metres, just off my back verandah. It forms a focal point of the garden.
@Artferret How I would love to do an embroidery workshop. Somehow the internet tutorials are just not the same. I have lots of UFO's. Found some the other day and so i am again inspired. Whether they will be finished depends on what grabs my attention next. At the moment doll making is "flavour of the day"
I call these dolls my Boab Babes. I dye the body fabric using pindan. Pindan is our red dirt. Makes a great dye. You never get pindan out of your white clothes! The dolls are "born" at the bottom of our boab trees! I sell them at our market stall held at the CWA cottage in town on Saturday mornings. I have my crafts and Ian has his wood turning. Classical music is also my passion. My sewing room vibrates with the orchestral sounds of classical cd's. Nothing like sewing to the great classics. - @annie C have you been watching Mystery Road on ABC? It's filmed somewhere up around your way. I recognised the cliff lines and boabs as soon as I started watching it
- My husband and i love skiing and considering that we missed out on a ripper of a season last year with both of us having cancer we are both going to make up for it this year at Falls Creek. I love thread painting (embroidery) and have a weeks worth of embroidery workshops booked in Glenelg this October which should be fab as well as having various ufo's on the go (un-finished-objects). Gardening, going to the gym, walking my dog Rufus and planning the extension to our forever home in Tawonga South. Going to listen to the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is also good, most of the time the repetoire is good and sometimes you come out thinking what the...all fun and games!
- @smokie08 YUM!!
