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Bucket List of a Dying 15 Year-Old 06/10/2011

Filed under: Better Life,Coping — Mom Of 7 @ 10:12 am
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I admit, I post a lot of silly nonsense (that hopefully brings a laugh) on my BLOG.  At the same time, I love it when I happen upon an article that really makes me think and re-evaluate all the things I deem important.

Today, I stumbled upon a 15 year-old’s blog~~~she has terminal cancer.  What I found so interesting was her BUCKET LIST!!!

This is what she said:

 

 

Much like other teenagers, Alice Pyne, 15, likes pop music and junk food, and takes to the web to talk about life. Unlike most, however, Alice is dying.

She has been fighting cancer for four years, and is nearing the end of her battle. She recently began a blog, Alice’s Bucket List, that outlines what she’d like to do in her remaining time, and she’s captured the world’s attention and inspired countless others along the way with her optimistic outlook and unassuming wishes. Among the items on her bucket list:

  • To make everyone sign up to be a bone marrow donor
  • To swim with sharks
  • To go to Kenya (I can’t travel there now but I wanted to)
  • To enter Mabel in a regional Labrador show
  • To have a photoshoot with Milly, Clarissa, Sammie and Megs
  • To have a private cinema party for me and my BFFs
  • To design an Emma Bridgewater Mug to sell for charity
  • To stay in a caravan
  • To have a purple Apple ipad but I’m not really allowed to put that on here and mum is trying to borrow one
  • To be a dolphin trainer (I can’t do this one either now)
  • To meet Take That
  • To go to Cadbury World and eat loads of chocolate
  • To have a nice picture taken with Mabel
  • To stay in the chocolate room at Alton Towers
  • To have my hair done if they can do anything with it
  • To have a back massage
  • To go whale watching
Fortunately, she’s ticking one of the items off her list and she’ll be going to see Take That (a British pop group) this weekend. She wrote yesterday:
I am so excited and really can’t wait, I just hope that I don’t get ill or something daft. I’ve lived in PJs for about a year so mum is going to town to buy some things to bring back for me to try.  She’ll bring loads but I’ll no doubt end up wearing leggings and a shirt :)
So many of the items on her list are so simple, but it’s what’s NOT on there that I find most difficult of all. Things like graduate from college, move into her first apartment, fall in love, get married, have a baby — so many years and so much living that she and all children killed by cancer won’t be able to experience.
She isn’t focused on those things, however, but rather the present:

Anyway, mum always tells me that life is what we make of it and so I’m going to make the best of what I have and because there were so many things I still wanted to do, mum suggested that I turn my ideas into a bucket list.

I admit when I first started reading her blog, it seemed a bit like a way to score some things she’d like to have for herself, and honestly I wouldn’t fault her at all if that’s all it was. But it’s much more than that, and she’s declined monetary donations and gifts for the most part, instead urging people to sign up as bone marrow donors  (read more)  http:/thestir.cafemom.com/teen/121530/dying_teens_bucket_list_provides
 

Be Fat and Fine With It?

Filed under: Coping — Mom Of 7 @ 9:12 am
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Am I Fat?

Confessions of a food lover.

Published: June 10, 2011

Dayna MacyAm I Fat - Dayna Macy

by DAYNA MACY

My ravenous relationship with food.

“Am I fat?”

I’ve never actually asked this question of another human being—until now.

I’m sitting in the office of Dr. Linda Bacon, a nutrition professor in the Biology Department at City College of San Francisco and author of Health at Every Size. I’m here because I embrace the message of her book: don’t wait to live your life, the perfect one you imagine you’ll live one day in your perfect body. Live it now.

“Yes.”

I want to make sure I’ve heard correctly. “You just said I’m fat, right?”

She nods and says again, “Yes.”

I’m silent. My hitherto unspoken weight hierarchy always began with thin, moved on to average, then on to chunky, then on to fat, and then finally obese. I have always put myself in the chunky category, or its kinder, gentler cousin—curvy. But never fat. Fat is another country, far away from where I live.

After a pause she asks, “What does that mean to you?”

“Well, what the f**k does that mean to you?” I counter.

She remains calm. “Fat, you know,” and here she grabs her nonexistent belly fat, “adipose tissue. Fat.”

That’s it? “All you mean by fat is ‘adipose tissue’?”

“Yes,” she says, “that’s all I mean. But I know it’s a loaded term,” she adds.

You might say that.

Dr. Bacon tells me that even though she’s using the word fat in the most clinical sense, the truth is, labels are always arbitrary. One person’s average is another person’s fat is another person’s curvy. So don’t get hung up on the labels.

“So tell me again what you mean by calling me fat?” I ask.

“What I’m saying is you have adipose tissue I might not see on a thinner person.” She pauses, and then adds, “And regardless of any of these labels, you radiate health and vibrancy. I think you’re gorgeous,” she concludes.

I have to hand it to her; in our culture, fat and gorgeous are seldom used together in the same sentence.

Maybe she’s using the word fat clinically, but it still stings. What’s more, she’s right. And I know it.

Keep Reading:  Click Here~~~~~~~>  http://www.healyourlife.com/author-dayna-macy/2011/06/lifeshelp/get-healthy/am-i-fat&utm_id=HYLFB

 

 

FILED UNDER:DAYNA MACY | LINDA BACON | FAT | OBESITY | WEIGHT LOSS | DIETING

 

 

 

 
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