A toast to 2025, You came, you saw, you handed over (Written Dec 2025)
I have a very noisy neighbour tonight, I can hear every little bit of sound from their premises. I will not allow them to take my peace. 2025 has taken but also given, I am now, more than ever before, more aware, more acknowledging and even more forgiving of myself. Others? More accepting. Early on in 2025, my family and I received some very unwelcome news. My dad was diagnosed with stage IV cancer, a psychiatrist diagnosed my mom with alzeheimers and said to a still very hopeful audience of four, willing to try and do anything- "there is nothing more we can do, we just need to make her comfortable." I have never had to wear the brave face I had to wear that day. Same day for both diagnoses. I had asked for a few hours off work but had carried my laptop anyway to work in the waiting room. I knew, from that minute, that carrying the laptop to the waiting room with people who were reflecting on what the doctors would say, find, was unfair on them because then they worried abo...
