Dear Anita,

I hope you have recovered well from revisiting your trauma?  I am glad that you know yoga and feel the benefit from it.  Writing to you reminded me that it is time I took up my own practise again!

I want you to know that writing to you and receiving your posts isn’t a disturbance to me at all, but rather one of the most enriching experiences I have ever had with another human being!  I too am learning very much from our communications and am immensely grateful for this.

I wish I could say I have been having a good rest in the meantime, in fact I am just writing to let you know that I am really having a hard time to keep my head above water at present.  I am still ill from the heat, and this has now progressed to problems with my stomach and nausea, added to which I have now got my old dog (17) very ill.  I think it is vestibular syndrome, which she had two years ago and I cured with homeopathy and supplements, but I think she has it again.  She can hardly get up, stand or walk, and is too heavy for me to be picking her up for eating and toilet, so now I have back and kidney pains from the strain …

Ever since my cat became ill in early June I feel I am no longer making the progress that I need to be doing physically towards my independence, I feel I’m just constantly fixing illnesses and trying to survive each day until I can get into bed again.  I will be so glad when it gets cooler and hopefully we are all well again then.  My little cat is also still not really well, her fur has barely grown back since she was operated on and they had sadly shorn her very badly, so it looks quite awful.  At least she is finally back to eating normally again and beginning to put on weight, but she weighs barely 5 pounds even so.

Every day I hope to be able to sit down and write about my thoughts and feelings, but I’m so physically challenged at the moment, I just haven’t managed so far.  Cross your fingers that I’ll be in a better place soon.

I very much appreciate your virtual hug and especially reminding me to go slow and take it easy.  That advice has been a great help and feels like having a friend around who is taking care of me.  Thank you!

Juanita