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What advice would you give to your teenage self? This almost feels like a question my therapist would ask. At 14 I had no idea that I had a genetic condition that predisposed me to tumours, I had no idea that I was developing an optic pathway glioma, a brain tumour that would eventually take…
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What are your feelings about eating meat. I’m vegan so that just about answers the question, but that wouldn’t be a very long blog post so here are just a few reasons that people commonly give for not going vegan that I have debunked. You’ll be deficient in B12 Everyone should take a B12 vitamin.…
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What book are you reading right now? Before I lost my sight I used to LOVE to read. I read all the time, two sometimes three books a week. I would spend lots of time in the library and would always leave with a stack of books to read. I especially liked getting into a…
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What will your life be like in three years? That’s a hard question to answer when I live with a cancer that has about a 50% mortality rate. While it’s true that nobody knows exactly when they will die, it feels like quite a difficult topic for me. It’s something I’m working on. I find,…
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What’s something you believe everyone should know.
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You have three magic genie wishes, what are you asking for? So I’ve got three wishes. Let’s say things like world peace, ending famine and stop climate change are off the table. That I can’t ask for more wishes, because that would be cheating. Let’s say, just for this blogs sake, that they have to…
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What is your favorite form of physical exercise? The honest answer is that I don’t know anymore. Pre cancer and pre the struggles with my mental health, I used to walk a lot, go to the gym, I loved my aqua aerobics class. I would go almost every day. But surgery, feeling so poorly and…
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What have you been working on? Well the thing I’m working on most and the thing I have been working on since July 2023 when I had a stay in a mental health hospital has been my mental health. It’s ongoing and it’s hard. It takes a lot of my energy, and a lot of…
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What principles define how you live? The main principal I live my life by, is to just be kind. Be kind to humans, and be kind to animals. I’m kind to people, I pride myself in trying to be kind all the time. I’m kind to animals, and I action this by being vegan. It’s…
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What is your favorite hobby or pastime? I have lots of hobbies. I play ten pin bowling, I play a blind sport called showdown, I like crafting, climbing and researching my special interests and I love writing this blog  But when I’m depressed I lose sight of all my hobbies. This weekend I saw…
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