My Goodbye Cancer Dance and Community Thank You
The Moorland Hall Christmas Tea & Chatter was an eventful occasion. Along with the regular catch-up among friends over morning tea goodies, there was a special Aussie rendition of Jingle Bells from students of Moorland School and my heartfelt lyrical dance performance. In a bid to thank locals for support, and to say goodbye to my cancer, I performed two improvised dances. If you look closely at the videos (shown down the bottom) you can probably see my “thinking face” while I made up what to do as I went along! Just one year ago, I was diagnosed with colorectal (bowel) cancer. I first noticed an issue while teaching side bends in yoga class. After months of tests through my GP, I took myself to emergency, and was admitted and had surgery just days later, to remove a cancer tumour nearly 6cms in diameter. Although still on a close watch by my oncologist, I feel it is time to start living again. For a year I felt like everything was o...