If you follow my Facebook page or YouTube channel, you might have already caught up with my new video series 'A Chic and Simple Christmas'.
For ten days I am sharing little tips, tricks and ideas created to help you enjoy a calm and joyful December, when there is so much going on. I thought I would post them here as well, for those of you who don't follow my other channels.
I hope you enjoy them, and I'd love to hear your comments or any ideas that come up for you after watching the videos. The rest of the series will follow once it unfolds.
If you would like to read more, see my book 'A Chic and Simple Christmas: Celebrate the holiday season with ease and grace', available on
Amazon in print copy and on Kindle.
I cannot tell you how much your book about Christmas has helped me this year! I downloaded it over the weekend and read it immediately. I loved the part which said, don't book any medical appointments etc. in the month. I had been obsessing about my regular mammogram appointment which I had scheduled for a couple days after Christmas - I worry about these all the time. And thought, you know I can schedule that for January. My entire mood lifted! And I loved the part about the decorations. I love your blogs, etc.!! thank you and many good wishes!
ReplyDeleteMight I be permitted to slightly disagree here. I had a mammogram in 2004 in December and it saved my life. That might sound dramatic, but it did. A month could make a difference when you have a Grade 3 cancer, as I had, which I had not felt in my breast. I was recalled within a week and had surgery in January and was on chemo within a month. Some medical appointments are far more essential than merely Christmas festivities. If it is time for your mammogram, then have it, regardless of Christmas. It is far more important, believe me. A mammogram is always a worry until you get the all-clear, but if you don't, as happened to me, then treatment can immediately be put in train.
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www.margaretpowling.com
Well said Margaret P.,
DeleteI just finished treatment for pre-cancer of the breast right before Thanksgiving, about 2 1/2 weeks ago.
I don't know how difficult it is scheduling medical appointments where the commenter cks12 is from, but here in the U.S. it has taken me a month or longer to get in, so when I get an appointment, I do my best to keep it. Also, I would rather get it done and over with than put it off - or else I end up worrying even longer.
cks12, Take care of yourself first, think of it as a gift not only to yourself but to your loved ones as well, it sounds cheesy, but it really is the best gift :)
D.
Yes, I would like to send my best wishes to, to cks12 and hope will be well. Here in the UK when it comes to things like oncology the hospitals do their level best to get patients seen early, so you are sent an appointment. Other things, such as physio, you book an appointment to suit your own schedules. D, I hope all goes well for you now you have finished your pre-cancer treatment. My treatment for a State 3 cancer took two years and treatments finished in November 2006. But it was the mammogram that detected the tumour; I'd not be here now had I put off having that mammogram just before Christmas, another month would've made a lot of difference as it was an aggressive type of cancer. I'm glad I'm not alone in suggesting such medical matters are not delayed because of Christmas.
DeleteMargaret P
@cks12 I am so glad you enjoyed my Christmas book!
DeleteMargaret and D, excellent point. Of course I am not suggesting putting off important medical treatment, but a dental checkup can easily wait a month (or be scheduled the month previous).
DeleteSo glad you are both well and 'out the other side' :)
Thank you so much for these kind concerns - and I am so glad to hear you are both on the back side of the treatments. I totally understand - I have had several people that I know receive these diagnosis after YEARS of no mammograms. And my doctor is vigilante about them. I understood what Fiona meant, and I did reschedule and got an appointment the following week - which is a year from last year's. But thank you - the gentleness and concern was appreciated more than you both realize.
DeleteHi Fiona! I am loving your video series. I just wanted to comment on how great your make up has been looking! Very youthful and glowing! I currently have a book out from the library "How not to look old" by the late Charla Krupp and it says what is "OL" (old lady) and what is Y&H (young and hip). It seems maybe you have read it haha. I actually have a lot of "OL" habits to change. I know this wasn't about Christmas...sorry.-Carla.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Carla, you are a sweetheart! I did have that book out of the library a while back, but I didn't read much of it before it was due back. I will borrow it again because I love the thought of looking youthful for as long as possible :)
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