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.)