10 Minutes To Go – One Last Request

Last night being admitted

Don’t get me wrong I am fully aware there are only so many times I can bang on about this blooming operation but it seems as I’m just about to go in I may as well demand one last wish.

The other day you may have seen I wrote a list for the brilliant Clemmie Telford (www.motherofalllists.com) and in it I requested that anyone reading itring, message, video or see someone that’s had an impact on them and tell them how much that impact has meant. I asked people to do this because the experience of hearing this from others since receiving my diagnosis has been more beautiful than I can describe.

After posting that list and making that request I got messages from total strangers telling me they’d taken this on board and actually done it. Wow.

So whilst I’m going into this pretty scary surgery, I’m going in knowing that I’ve have had even a tiny little impact on people I don’t even know and that is beyond anything I could ever have imagined.

I have also obviously had unbelievable messages of support last night and this morning so I really couldn’t be in a better place to kick ass in that room.

It would be unreal to say I’m not nervous, super nervous in fact but what I thought would help is to think that when I come round I might see even more messages, public or private or anything that will let me know a few more people are out there are expressing their gratitude and appreciation to each other. Seriously how amazing would that be to wake up to. Friends or strangers, please just do this for me if my story has touched you in any way. Plus there’s so much research to show doing this makes you happier yourself – win win.

http://www.gratitudeseeds.com/live-in-gratitude/inspirational-links/science-happiness-experiment-gratitude/

My own gratitude and appreciation for literally everyone who has been with me throughout this is bigger than the universe itself and is surrounding all of you as it is me going in there now.

I also wanted to let you know that one of my superhero friends Ebony will be taking over this blog while I’m either in surgery or high as a kite so you can be updated with what is going on rather than my family having to tell people individually. Eb’s (aka my Venezuelan Princess) is an even bigger ball of energy than me so I’m expecting some pretty hilarious posts from my pony loving, booty shaking, hoof tequila drinking friend.

Lastly another dear friend sent me this message which I just couldn’t not share:

“A little possibly unknown fact about 12 November is…that… on 12 November 1980 the NASA space probe Voyager I made its closest approach to Saturn and took the first images of its rings. Pretty cool – bet that was an incredible sight for those receiving the images for the first time. Apparently Galileo Galilei first observed the rings of Saturn in 1610. Saturn appears to the naked eye in the night sky as a bright, yellowish point of light”

Oh Buttercup lets show those Neurosurgeons how bright you really are.

Hasta pronto amigos xxxxxx