New hobbies

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 there Joannie...I'm a knitter. Very soothing and relaxing for me as it is hard for your mind to wander off into dark places when you're following a pattern. Even with plain knitting, counting the stitches as you go, keeps things in focus. Very good for when I can't concentrate on reading, especially in the wee hours.

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.

I learnt meditation to help me relax. when I went to encore after treatment one session we did colouring in to help us learn to relax also it was good.