[Somehow this didn't get published-I wrote this on December 2, last year!]
So we're down to a routine now with four treatments down, 29 to go.
We get up, depending on the day we go to the gym or we do yoga (thank you Peggy Cappy for Heart Healthy Yoga for the Rest of Us) and write morning pages. We shower, eat breakfast, have a few minutes to ourselves and then it's off to the cancer center for my 11:30 appointment.
Sort of like work. Show up, undress, put on the robe or gown (yesterday there were no robes so I had to wear a gown :( ), lie on the table. Nicole comes in and has me breath. She marks my sternum in two places, goes into the control "booth" and starts my treatment. "Big breath in, let it out, big breath in, hold it right there, 20 seconds later--okay, breathe." We do that twice for the left side, then she and Matt come in, check my positioning, out they go, "Okay, right side, breathe normally." Done.
All of ten minutes. Back in the women's dressing room, rub both breasts in with Miaderm, done for the day.
I might change this up a little. I'm taking Susan Piver's Invoking Magic Develop a Morning Routine class. She has challenged us to try 10X10X5: ten minutes of meditation, a ten minute "free write," and then, the five: two things you are grateful for, two things you are worried/concerned about, and one offering you will make to the world today.
For about the past year I've been meditating before bed. One day this week I skipped writing morning pages and did 10X10X5. It felt freeing to write for "only" ten minutes. Morning pages take me around 35 minutes. One day I meditated and did my 10X10X5 in the evening. Today I'll try to meditate this afternoon, since tonight is Bet Am Shalom's Judaica craft show and I'm a volunteer driver from 4 PM to 6 PM, and then we'll be going to the craft fair at 8 PM.
As I write this I realize that the "pivot" in my schedule is my radiation appointment. Quite frankly this is not how I planned to spend the fall after my retirement. We had planned to go see Civil War battles sites, starting in Gettysburg and working out way south.
Another time!
So what's your routine, may I ask?
So we're down to a routine now with four treatments down, 29 to go.
We get up, depending on the day we go to the gym or we do yoga (thank you Peggy Cappy for Heart Healthy Yoga for the Rest of Us) and write morning pages. We shower, eat breakfast, have a few minutes to ourselves and then it's off to the cancer center for my 11:30 appointment.
Sort of like work. Show up, undress, put on the robe or gown (yesterday there were no robes so I had to wear a gown :( ), lie on the table. Nicole comes in and has me breath. She marks my sternum in two places, goes into the control "booth" and starts my treatment. "Big breath in, let it out, big breath in, hold it right there, 20 seconds later--okay, breathe." We do that twice for the left side, then she and Matt come in, check my positioning, out they go, "Okay, right side, breathe normally." Done.
All of ten minutes. Back in the women's dressing room, rub both breasts in with Miaderm, done for the day.
I might change this up a little. I'm taking Susan Piver's Invoking Magic Develop a Morning Routine class. She has challenged us to try 10X10X5: ten minutes of meditation, a ten minute "free write," and then, the five: two things you are grateful for, two things you are worried/concerned about, and one offering you will make to the world today.
For about the past year I've been meditating before bed. One day this week I skipped writing morning pages and did 10X10X5. It felt freeing to write for "only" ten minutes. Morning pages take me around 35 minutes. One day I meditated and did my 10X10X5 in the evening. Today I'll try to meditate this afternoon, since tonight is Bet Am Shalom's Judaica craft show and I'm a volunteer driver from 4 PM to 6 PM, and then we'll be going to the craft fair at 8 PM.
As I write this I realize that the "pivot" in my schedule is my radiation appointment. Quite frankly this is not how I planned to spend the fall after my retirement. We had planned to go see Civil War battles sites, starting in Gettysburg and working out way south.
Another time!
So what's your routine, may I ask?
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