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:
- Wearing pants (in the English sense)
- Picking up the kettle
- Climbing into the shower without having to mentally prepare myself
- Picking something up off the floor
- Putting on compression stockings without help
- Starting a blog
- Not crying for a whole day
- Self-injecting
- Not self-injecting
- Peeing standing up (catheter!)
- Peeing sitting down
- Having visitors in hospital
- Reading a book
- Watching all of Downton Abbey
- Watching all of Game of Thrones
- Baking things
- Doing the washing up
- Going to the supermarket
- Walking down the hill
- Planting some flowers
- Stitches falling out
- Sitting outside in the garden
- The sun shining
- Getting 100 visitors to my blog in one day
- Getting 200 followers on Twitter
- Going out for lunch
- Standing up and sitting down without help
- Taking painkillers less frequently
- Not having to have chemoradiotherapy
- Doing a crossword
- Visiting my parents
- Feeling positive
- Sleeping at all
- Sleeping on my front
- MRI being moved forward
- Surgery being moved forward
- Discovering new types of tea
- Creating new juices
- Getting dressed on my own
- Going for a whole day without napping
- Getting new white compression stockings
- Getting new black compression stockings
- Somebody going for their smear test because of reading this blog
- Having visitors at home
- Laughing
- Not being in pain when laughing
- Making plans to socialise
- Picking up the cat
- Cat sitting on me (as opposed to next to me)
- Being able to see past this
- Moisturising my legs myself
- Washing my own back
- Being able to get my tummy wet
- Feeling hungry
- Wanting to eat chicken goujons
- Wanting to eat anything other than chicken goujons
- People I know liking my blog
- 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
I am glad that you wrote these down; I am very inspired and thankful to you. Wishing you the best.
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Well then that’s another mini victory! 😊 thanks for reading x
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Caroline,
You do yourself an injustice – ‘mini-victories’ indeed… Many are ‘maxi-‘ & a few even ‘maximi’.
Keep it up. Love Caroline
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Thank you! There is definitely a range of victory sizes in there… X
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Keep getting better with the victories and humour you possess, Caroline 😊.
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