Tuesday 3 January 2017

2016 came and went

It's Pax's birthday today. He would be 38 which is hard for me to imagine. I try to picture him as a young man, nearly 40! but that's a challenge. I haven't seen him in 35 years. Do we grow older in heaven?

I haven't posted on here for a long time. I had a strange 2016 which seems to have passed in a blur.

2015 (the last time I posted!) ended quite dramatically, as it turned out I had cancer. I had surgery to remove my kidney, discovered it was a stage 3 cancer but they got it all out, and have spent the past year trying to regain my strength. Also been busy, published another book, started leading bereavement support events, got involved with other charities, so it wasn't like recovering was spent sitting around. Rather the opposite, as I have tried to get my energy back. But it's like being in slow motion. I'm at perhaps 60% strength of what I was before. I am thankful to be alive, but wish I felt a bit more so.

Who knows what 2017 has in store. We'll see.