Heading into the third week of retirement, I am reflecting on my decision and how my life has changed. I have been in a very busy and stressful environment for 20+ years and while it has been an important role and a rewarding one, sometimes the stress made it difficult to manage at times. IContinue reading “The freedom to choose…”
Category Archives: Getting on with life
A brave and inspiring soul…
I have just been reading a short article written by someone who has a diagnosis of cancer and now only has weeks to live. She is so brave sharing her story and I have to admire how accepting she is of her prognosis. She is doing things like knitting her nephews rugs, so that theyContinue reading “A brave and inspiring soul…”
“What’s yours is mine, what’s mine’s me own!”
This little phrase has been trotted out over the years in our family. We always had a bit of a laugh because it was tongue in cheek and a bit cheeky. However, I’ve just been sitting here at the end of the second week of retirement and it just popped into my head. Prior toContinue reading ““What’s yours is mine, what’s mine’s me own!””
Tough love
I started writing another post about love, but then these thoughts came to me instead. Sometimes love is not about the sweet and loving words someone speaks to you. Sometimes love is about saying things that are confronting and difficult. This can be especially true of those who love people in the various stages ofContinue reading “Tough love”
Support Groups… we all need different things!
Tonight, my husband and I attended the monthly support group that we have at a local bar. We have been going for a while now and it is nice to know that it is a safe group to talk about our diagnosis and other things in our lives. Many of the group are still working,Continue reading “Support Groups… we all need different things!”
Playing my own game…
This is my first week of being officially retired and what a busy week it is shaping up to be. I have things on every day of the week. Some of them ‘life admin’ and some of them fun and social interactions. Plus, my first volunteering stint. Yesterday, I rocked up to another bowling clubContinue reading “Playing my own game…”
Now I’m retired… a poem
Now I’m retiredNow I’m retired, I can wake when I likeI can have a nice walk, or go ride my bikeThere’s no-one to tell me what to do with my dayNo patients, no bosses that I must obeyI can happily rest or do what I chooseOr watch lots of telly even the newsI can goContinue reading “Now I’m retired… a poem”
So this is it…
I woke up this morning and my first thought was that I will no longer be a Social Worker when this day is done. It will be a strange feeling when I leave at the end of the day, knowing that I will never walk into that building again as an employee and most ofContinue reading “So this is it…”
Inside I’m smiling!
I was walking along with my husband during the weekend one day and a woman was coming towards us. I hadn’t been paying much attention to her, when as she approached us, she said, ‘Such a grumpy face for such a lovely day. Cheer up!’ As I said to my husband, ‘maybe it’s just theContinue reading “Inside I’m smiling!”
Who am I?
As I am on the cusp of my retirement, I found this poem that I had written some time ago and it spoke to me. I thought I would share it with you. It is very much a reflection of the stage of life I find myself in. Having spent the last 20 years identifyingContinue reading “Who am I?”
My journey with Parkinsons 