Life Begins...

So, for my 40th year I decided a challenge was in order.  I have thought long and hard about why - especially in the weeks leading up to it, and very much during the toughest parts, although in a slightly stronger worded way......something along the lines of 'why the F**k am I doing this to myself when I could have chosen to lie on a beach in the sun?'.  Trust me, that question went around my head a lot in the last week!  I know my fellow Kili trekkers will say the same - let's face it, at the time it was hell!  So why do we do it? I know the factual reasons for doing it. 1.  A party didn't seem a big enough way to celebrate how grateful I feel to be turning 40.  Don't get me wrong, I LOVE a good party and LOVE nothing more than spending time with friends.  But a party is a party, I wanted a significant memory to mark the occasion, and to do something that would have been impossible this time 3 years ago 2.  I wanted to giv...

Life Begins at 40 apparently, and, as it happens, I turn 40 next week.  However, I feel my life, my new life, began 4 years ago, when I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer.  Of course, at that time life was thrown into disarray and my entire future disappeared before my eyes.  It was not until I came out the other end of treatment and found my 'new normal' (a phrase my fellow Cancer peeps will understand) that I was able to embrace my new life and appreciate the wonder that it is.   I wrote a blog through my treatment which I found therapeutic and I have been toying with the idea of writing again for a while.  I want this to be the antidote to my previous blog.  Part of the reason for writing a blog was to help support other people in similar situations as I found it invaluable reading other peoples blogs at the time.  I feel I owe it to anyone who followed my previous blog to now share how life continues.  Hopefully I can give hope ...