@Flaneuse
I logged on 10 minutes ago after quite a hiatus. I finished treatment in June, and I've been trying my hardest to drag my body and mind back into my previous life since then. It's understandably exhausted but now, in late October, I'm really at the end of my patience with post chemo side effects (then again my levels of patience have never been very good). I'm turned 40 on chemo and now i feel like i've aged 20 years in 11 months.
@"Summer Prevails" post and ALL of the 11 pages of posts matched my feelings perfectly. I'm so fed up and lacking in gratitude. I'm currently moping about all of the things cancer and treatment have taken from me. ..
But then you post an adorable photo of (what looks like) an Agile wallaby and i look out the window at my 20 acres of bush in outer Darwin and remember that i see at least 5 of those guys every day. As well as possums, kingfishers (three of them claim this place as their home, and so they should , they have more right than me), bandicoots, scrub fowl, green tree frogs, banded tree snakes and myriad birds. Your photo was the kick in the pants I needed to feel, well not exactly grateful, but at least less petulant about my situation.
Breathe, another sip of white wine and remember that, although I'm sweating my arse off in the Top End build up and recovering from cancer that could still come back and kill me, I'm surrounded by beauty that will go on and on even if I don't.
I like that.
