[CANCER] A Few Updates from #WaitingRoomFeet
So, it's been quite a lot of #waitingroomfeet over the past few week or so... Scans I had an Echocardiogram last Tuesday, and an MRI scan last Wednesday. I was told the echo was fine whilst in the clinic - but the MRI - I was due to see Dr C on 20th Jan - too long to wait, so I asked when I would know! And the results had already come back yesterday -…
[EVENT] #PremDac19 Conference
I collected my tweets from the event here (you can check the hashtag #PremDac19 for more tweets):
#EmptyShelf19: October Books
Well, a slow, but quality month of reading - I'm partway through several other books, but this is the only one that I've finished - and it was an important one to feed into our joint session at #PremDac19: Finding God in a Culture of Fear by Joanne Cox-Darling My rating: 5 of 5 stars I’ve been wanting to read this since it came out, and knowing that I’m doing a session with Joanne at…
[SPEAKER] Digital Theology: The Big C #PremDac19
Here are the slides from this afternoon's forthcoming session at the Premier Digital Conference, with Rev Dr Joanne Cox and I, talking about faith, community and cancer... 'Living faith-full community in the face of trauma. Explore how digital community exposes a God who calls us to campaign, collaborate, and care.' Digital Theology: The Big C #PremDac19 from Bex Lewis
[CANCER] Completing the @MaggiesCentres ‘Living with Stress’ Course
So, yesterday I finished a 6-week course at Maggie's on 'managing stress'. The course is designed for those who have had a diagnosis of cancer (or those close to them), as diagnosis, surgery, treatments, and ongoing treatment are all 'difficult and testing times' - leading to extra stress, intense emotion, tiredness and irritability: Week 1: Stress and Breathing We talked about theories around stress, and the fact that cancer leaves you at a 'higher…