150: Postscript

Postscript.

These blogs emerged from endless hours of storytelling with my friend Siobhain Santry, who's illustrated so many of the early blogs and the last one.

It's been a joint endeavour and I credit her with helping to create so much of the humour and the spirit around what I've wanted to say.

There's light and there's shade, in just about every situation we find ourselves in in life. Which has turnout out to be a helpful way of approaching things. Particularly living through the curveball that was breast cancer.

Even in the darkest of times, I've managed to see the funny side of how some events unfolded and get cross at what deserved to have a bit of fury thrown at it.

People are really extraordinary.

In my stories, I've touched on the very best and the very worst of us.

There are so many stories that I could've told. I've cried and I've laughed with the people I love, and sometimes at myself. There's nothing like laughter, but this doesn't neutralise the challenge of living with sight loss.

Life is not all 'ha ha hi hi', but even where it is deadly serious, there's usually some redeeming feature to be found.

If there was a mantra to get me through life, some of it would be unrepeatable but the parts I would share are:

- 'Map out where every clean loo is, for your comfort.'

- 'Get enough sleep.'

- 'Make the most of love and friendship.'

- 'Don't hang onto anger.'

- 'Embrace elastic.'

- And 'Take every opportunity to exercise your imagination in seeing the world from a viewpoint that might not be your natural position, because it is incredibly rewarding.'

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Image is Siobhain Santry's sketch of Anna.