Tag Archives: mindfulness

Welcome to the breasts, balls and bone blood gang

Posted on Tue, 31 Dec 2013 by Jet Black

We met at a Mindfulness course at the Maggie’s Centre in Nottingham. I will write separately about the course, what I got from it and how I use mindfulness in my life these days – that deserves a whole post … Continue reading →

Posted in * Myeloma, Fun, play & adventure | Tagged advanced cancer, balls, blood, bone, breast cancer, Cadbury's fruit and nut, cloves, creativity, death, dying, friendship, knitting, living, Maggies Centre, mindfulness, Occupational Therapy, orange, pomander, prostate cancer, secondary cancer, singing, slipped disc, support, terminal cancer, Terry's chocolate orange | 7 Comments

Mindful dying query

Posted on Wed, 4 Dec 2013 by Jet Black

While I was on a roll, talking about death and dying, meditation and mindfulness, I have a query that I hope you may be able to help solve. I recall hearing a story or a piece … Continue reading →

Posted in * Myeloma, Emotional health | Tagged death, dying, Let's Talk - Wellbeing, Maggies Centre, meditation, mindfulness, Nottingham, pain relief | 1 Comment

A meditative death

Posted on Sun, 17 Nov 2013 by Jet Black

I found this post today on the InterDependence Project‘s blog, written by Nancy Thompson, about how Lou Reed died. (The InterDependence Project is a secular Buddhist Centre in New York). I want to share it for anyone else facing their own death … Continue reading →

Posted in * Myeloma | Tagged Buddhism, Cancer, death, dying, InterDependence Project, Laurie Anderson, living, Lou Reed, love, meditation, mindfulness, Rolling Stone, sadness, T'ai Chi, terminal illness | 8 Comments

18 month post-transplant review

Posted on Sun, 17 Nov 2013 by Jet Black

Today is 18 months to the day after my allogeneic transplant. It’s my 18-month-iversary! I’m alive, pretty well for the most part, looking and feeling good. So today is worthy of a celebration, although it is more of a quiet … Continue reading →

Posted in * Myeloma, Emotional health, Fun, play & adventure, Other health, Sleep apnoea, Work & volunteering, Writing | Tagged aching joints, Aciclovir, allogeneic stem cell transplant, anti-viral, antibiotic, antidepressant, bisphosphonates, blogging, blood count, bone densitometry, bone density scan, chimerism, Citizens' Eye Derby, CPAP, CT scan, dry eye, eosinophils, Eyebag, fatigue, Fluoxetine, Graft versus Host Disease, GvHD, knitting, lubricant eye drops, Lung function test, Maggies Centre, mammogram, Meibomian Gland Dysfunction, Menopace, menopause, mindfulness, mini-allo, MRI scan, mucous membrane, muscle flexibility, oestrogen, Omega 7, ONJ, osteonecrosis of the jaw, osteoporosis, Penicillin, physiotherapy, Playback, remission, runny nose, SCT, Sleep apnoea, smear test, spinal vertebrae, stem cell transplant, swimming, T'ai Chi, tight muscles, UARS, Vagifem, volunteering, writing, Zometa | 10 Comments

Pollyanna?

Posted on Sun, 27 Mar 2011 by Jet Black

I seem to be finding it hard to write about my feelings and the underside of what’s happening for me emotionally. The medical stuff is maybe upsetting or interesting to read (I’ll leave it to you to decide), but it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Emotional health | Tagged Cancer, cycling, mindfulness, pain, positive attitude | 5 Comments

Tag Archives: mindfulness

Welcome to the breasts, balls and bone blood gang

Mindful dying query

A meditative death

18 month post-transplant review

Pollyanna?

Dancing in the rain

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