Hello from a recovering Helen
Hello my lovely Ann
I have been thinking about you quite a lot recently – and wanting to get in touch. Recovery has slowed me down over the last few days, which is my excuse & I’m sticking to it! Brain surgery can take it out of a girl, y’know!
I am doing really well – that’s what I tell myself all the time, even when I least feel like doing it. Each new day is like a mini new life, full of different experiences, and I start each one by saying ‘thank you’ for the gift of that day, whatever it brings. It is such a relief not to have the extreme pains & disorientation in my head any more, and a joy to know that, even though it surprised him (but not me), my brilliant surgeon has removed ALL the tumour. So, in the truest sense of the word, I have ‘lost my sense of tumour’.
Everything is now on its healing course, and I am learning to be a patient patient, and reminding myself to go with the flow of the recovery. One of the biggest lessons I’ve been reminded of is simply not to resist what is. If I feel unwell, that’s OK. We usually resist what we don’t want, which causes us suffering. So if I just accept what is, there is no resistance, and no suffering. Life is so much easier and strangely enough the thing I was resisting seems to go away. That’s been demonstrated so clearly to me over the past few months since the diagnosis, and during/after radiotherapy and now following the operation.
So now I believe it.
Each and every day I am blown away by the love and support I am receiving from literally the four corners of the world. Messages arrive in emails, cards, letters, bunches of flowers, phone calls, word of mouth from the most incredible people – some of whom I know, and some I don’t. Their words inspire me beyond words, and what seems to happen is that the words I receive & read are exactly the words I need to hear at that precise moment in time. How incredible is that?
I would really love everyone to know the difference they are making to my well-being and my recovery just by keeping in touch.
With love & gratitude, as always to you and to the whole of the Inspired Group.
Helen x
(As Helen says, the messages she gets mean a lot to her so if you’d like to know how to get in touch please just ask me or leave a message here and Helen will read it.)
Tags: Amp, Blown Away, Brain Surgery, Brilliant Surgeon, Bunches, Diagnosis, Diffe, Disorientation, Emails Cards, Excuse, Experiences, Few Days, Flowers, Four Corners, Lovely Ann, Moment In Time, Precise Moment, Radiotherapy, Resistance, Tumour, Word Of Mouth
October 7, 2009 2:34 pm 
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Helen,
Great to hear that you’re getting better.
Keep taking it easy and, hopefully, we’ll meet up at a 4N meeting soon.
Hi Helen,
I was thinkig about you today, talking to one of my patients about living for the moment and planning for the future. I had an image of the house in New Zealand you talked about surrounded by lots of green grass. (It would be green wouldn’t it!)So lovely to hear from you.
Hugs and kisses
Moira
Hello Helen
I am so pleased to hear you are on the mend … I am sure you will soon be back to your busy self and will be out with us all again.
You are a true inspiration. Your positive attitude will see you through anything that is thrown at you.
See you soon.
Garry
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Hi Helen
I love your line about being a ‘patient patient’. Take it steady and keep recovering.
See you soon.
Loads of love,
David
‘Losing your sense of tumour’ Helen? Brilliant, in every sense. Tells us more about the fact that your smile is as bright as ever than is imaginable.
Inspiration for the Inspired.
All the very best
Colin