Princess Gail's Page

Princess Gail - wonderful to see you here!! You have been missed and thought of so often! Hope things are going well for you....please drop me a note when you can! xoxo Sherry

Hi Gail. Thank you for adding me as a friend. From what I've read you really ar an inspiration to all! Warm hugs from South Africa xox Stéfan

You changed your photo! You look really good - nice picture.

Hi Gail, I'm honored that you added me as a friend & look forward to getting to know you. Thanks for being an inspiration!

Hi Gail - thank you for your email. Did you get my reply? I am in my good week at the moment and I had a lovely day today with my boy - went to the local park with his best friend and they splashed around in the paddling pool. I miss swimming (bad thing about picc line), and am really looking forward to getting back in the water. Take care of you x sarah

Gail - My thoughts are with you. I am two years past my chemo and growing more whole every day. I can see that's what you're up to, too. Thanks for joining the HumanKind media group and for the lovely posts.

Thanks for the welcome and the add!

Jana

Dear Princess Gail - I left a comment about day 6 and 7 and then I wanted to say more, so here it is. I am 3/4 way through my chemo for breast cancer, with surgery to follow. I don't know what order they are doing you in. Some of my chemo has been administered by a friend who is a chemo nurse and has now had a bilateral mastectomy, and it has been great having her there, partly because no matter how much anyone else sympathises ( and all the chemo nurses are lovely), she really knows. So I think you're right, it does change what you can give in a professional capacity. Even for me (I'm a child psychiatrist) it has really made me think about what it's like for my patients to come and see me.

On the days just following chemo I get so tired. It is really hard to give anything at all, especially to my kids, who are 6 and 4, so pretty small and who seem to demand more the less available I am. I have found that the giving challenge has made me give myself a bit of space to think about what I CAN do, rather than what I CAN'T do, and that has been really helpful. The other thing I have found helpful is www.threebeautifulthings.blogspot.com. I have been trying to spend a few minutes at bedtime just noting my 3 beautiful things for the day, and find it really helpful to focus on the positives for a few minutes. Just getting to 3 is not burdensome and it really lifts me just before I go to sleep. I am not a spiritual person, but for me it is like a mini meditation or a prayer.

Hope that all goes well for you and sending you some prayers, well wishes, love and caring for yourself.

Sarah

Thank you Gail. I gave my first gift last night. I was tempted this morning to stop and give a young man (homeless) some money this morning...Probably should have.