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2024 Transplantiversary
The last few months have been so busy I barely saw it coming, and now, all of a sudden, it’s my 2024 transplantiversary – my 13th!
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Health Goals for 2024
You might remember, I believe “wealth” is more than just money. Health goals can help you make sure you’re healthy enough, to spend the time doing all the things you want to do.
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2023 Transplantiversary
As I write, today is my 2023 Transplantiversary, though you won’t see this post for a few days more. It was 2011 when the call came, and I berated the doctor for ringing and ringing all my numbers continuously until I finally answered. Not that I know anything about my donor, except that he/she/they died…
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To mastectomy or not
While I don’t need to explain or justify my mastectomy decision, it makes a good opportunity to talk about how (and why) I made my choice, as well planning and long-term thinking can be useful.
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Making Space
I’m not getting rid of my house, husband or dog. The change I’m looking for is simply making space. I’m sure I’m not the only one who looks back on the good old pre-pandmic days. And in my case back to the gold old pre-stroke days.
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Three Types of Beauty
According to my loosey-goosey blog schedule, today’s post is supposed to be about Beauty, but I really have very little idea what to write about. So, I do what I always do in these circumstances – a random internet search to see what comes up. Here, in order of listing, is what comes up in…
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What to do next?
Lately I’ve been finding myself tired. There’s so much stuff going on I have no idea what to do next.
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More Morning Routine
I’m not sure whether it’s because this is already an unusual year, but I’ve been thinking more about my morning routine. Perhaps because there’s been so little else to pin the days on, and the lazy, langourous, sleepy sense of nothing much happening lasts for about 87 hours per day.
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2022 Transplantiversary
It’s that time again – the 2022 transplantiversary. Eleven years and counting – officially past the nice, neat, predictable transplanted lifetime.
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2021 Transplantiversary
My 2021 transplantiversary marks the TENTH year of my transplant! It feels like a real achievement, and I feel like I should get it a gift to commemorate the day we met.
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Pleasure and Pain of Healthy Habits
My last Transplant Clinic appointment was less pleasant than I’d hoped, and now I’m back to contemplating the nature of choice and healthy habits.
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2019 Transplantiversary
It’s the 2019 Transplantiversary already – number eight. As I mentioned in the mid-year review, my transplant is deteriorating, and if I’m good, I’ll get at least another five years from it.
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How to celebrate your 100th birthday
A few days ago, Mary Beard asked; “How do you celebrate your 100th birthday?” Like her, I don’t have a fond hope for reaching 100 years.
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2018 Transplantiversary
Here I am at the 2018 Transplantiversary. Another year post-transplant – seven now. And as far as the transplant goes, it’s all good.
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5 Easy Ways to Foster Your Life Energy
Eastern religions have a concept of life energy; Hindus call it prana, and the Chinese qi (ch’i). Some Western philosophical traditions call it élan vital, or vital force.
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2017 Transplantiversary
Well, that’s the 2017 Transplantiversary gone – six years now. And the transplanted kidney is still doing well; there’s no sign of the rapid degeneration I feared after my 2016 Transplantiversary.
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Why you should start reconsidering activity trackers
I haven’t lost weight, built a consistent exercise habit, or slimmed down. In fact, it’s completely the opposite! I should be reconsidering activity trackers.
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First Aid for Old Injuries
I’ve been catching up on podcasts while catching trains, which led to the thought catching up on first aid for old injuries was a good idea.
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Alexandria’s Adventures in Food and Nutrition
Following my transplant review, I’ve done some research on food and nutrition. It’s been interesting, entertaining, and frustrating in equal measure. It is a whole other ball of string.
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How to Eat Well and Save Money on Food
As I mentioned for my 2016 Transplantiversary, I’m hoping to make some significant lifestyle changes to get down to the hospital recommended weight. I’ve ordered new cookbooks to help! During my cookbook shopping, I found a review of Jamie Oliver’s Everyday Super Food, which dismissed it (1 star) because if you made the dishes as described…
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2016 Transplantiversary
Yesterday was my 2016 Transplantiversary. We’ve been together for five happy years now.
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How to conquer fatigue; Physical, Mental and Spiritual
I don’t know about you, but I am really tired. I need to know how to conquer fatigue. Not just the physical fatigue that’s at the root of it, but mental and spiritual fatigue too.
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Alexandria’s Adventures in Morning Routine
Following my brush with the collapse of control, I’ve been noticing a lot of chat about “morning routine” in my podcasts and webinars lately, and there has been one thing that stood out for me.
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5 Simple Self-Care Steps for Body and Soul
This time of year, you’ll find a lot of people really committing to self-care, though they can’t seem to identify what exactly that entails aside from “eating well” and “running.”
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2015 Transplantiversary
Today is my transplant’s fourth birthday, or as I call them, transplantiversary. I usually do a Birthday Stocktake, and since my transplant, I’ve done them for its anniversary too.
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Is the Road to Hell Paved with Activity Trackers?
I have a (cunning) plan for losing the weight and slimming down. It involves an activity tracker.
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How 1918 style weight control makes you slim and happy
Suggestions from 1918 are in the three to five-year time frame. so it makes sense you need to think about weight control and how to maintain your body shape so that your clothes will fit you for the duration as well.
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How to Get Exercise Into Your Life
have been thinking a lot about exercise recently. I have acknowledged in my last few progress reports that I need to move more, but I haven’t actually done anything about it. Shame on me.
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How to Make the Perfect Pizza
One of the rare pleasures of unemployment is the time you can spare to make “real” food. Today, it’s the perfect pizza.
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My kidney transplant
I received a kidney transplant in 2011. I was so sick for so long I wanted to stop treatment and let the end come. There was nothing more to do…
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Virtue of Beauty; a Beautiful Body
We would probably all agree that, in general, a beautiful body is a fit and healthy body the result of good diet, exercise and sleeping habits.
