Slow is not normal

So I can not only get outside sometimes now, I can walk further, too. A few hundred metres, before I have to sit and rest; and then a few hundred metres more. But I can only go so far by walking very, very slowly – to keep my heart rate as low as possible, to […]

‘I couldn’t live like that’

A feeling of depression on reading an account of a writer I admire – a previously wholly well, fit and active professional middle aged woman (sound familiar??) – receive a cancer diagnosis and go through debilitating chemotherapy.  She said, ‘just walking around the block felt like swimming against a riptide, and I understood what the […]