Having a cat is a victory in itself. Obviously.

I’ve been told that any blogger who’s anyone needs some sort of ‘Top Tips’ post at some point. Like ‘101 ways to style your cat’ or ’50 best things about wearing lounge pants’.  I have gone for a slightly more unusual number: 58 Mini Victories.  Because that’s how many I thought of.  Some of these are more mini than others, but to me all of them are victories nevertheless.

So, in no particular order, my 58 Mini Victories are:

1. Wearing pants (in the English sense)
2. Picking up the kettle
3. Climbing into the shower without having to mentally prepare myself
4. Picking something up off the floor
5. Putting on compression stockings without help
6. Starting a blog
7. Not crying for a whole day
8. Self-injecting
9. Not self-injecting 
10. Peeing standing up (catheter!)
11. Peeing sitting down
12. Having visitors in hospital
13. Reading a book
14. Watching all of Downton Abbey
15. Watching all of Game of Thrones
16. Baking things 
17. Doing the washing up
18. Going to the supermarket
19. Walking down the hill
20. Planting some flowers
21. Stitches falling out
22. Sitting outside in the garden
23. The sun shining
24. Getting 100 visitors to my blog in one day
25. Getting 200 followers on Twitter
26. Going out for lunch
27. Standing up and sitting down without help
28. Taking painkillers less frequently
29. Not having to have chemoradiotherapy
30. Doing a crossword
31. Visiting my parents
32. Feeling positive
33. Sleeping at all
34. Sleeping on my front
35. MRI being moved forward
36. Surgery being moved forward
37. Discovering new types of tea 
38. Creating new juices
39. Getting dressed on my own
40. Going for a whole day without napping
41. Getting new white compression stockings
42. Getting new black compression stockings
43. Somebody going for their smear test because of reading this blog
44. Having visitors at home
45. Laughing
46. Not being in pain when laughing
47. Making plans to socialise
48. Picking up the cat
49. Cat sitting on me (as opposed to next to me) 
50. Being able to see past this
51. Moisturising my legs myself
52. Washing my own back
53. Being able to get my tummy wet
54. Feeling hungry
55. Wanting to eat chicken goujons
56. Wanting to eat anything other than chicken goujons
57. People I know liking my blog
58. People I don’t know liking my blog

Well, now maybe I have 59 if I add ‘having a Mini Victories list’ to it.  But then I’d have to change the title.

Caroline Crimson x