tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4019246280434938648.post3902207177005916795..comments2024-02-12T11:58:18.115+00:00Comments on Alright Tit by Lisa Lynch: How to be.Lisa Lynchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09801653171602300600noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4019246280434938648.post-23849224756614829532011-09-21T15:19:26.065+01:002011-09-21T15:19:26.065+01:00As usual, I've nothing useful to say that wou...As usual, I've nothing useful to say that wouldn't be pathetic and patronising. <br />So, I'll shut up and just say what a privilige it has been to follow you through these last 3 years.<br />Mad xMBNAD womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11604195971368211750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4019246280434938648.post-64758859509317997162011-09-17T00:56:07.078+01:002011-09-17T00:56:07.078+01:00Ohhh, honeybunny...
Everyone who's commented ...Ohhh, honeybunny...<br /><br />Everyone who's commented already has said exactly what I planned to say (in far more coherent 'n cogent terms, too), so just allow me to observe that NO-ONE can be Gardenbury Lisa all the time; I too try to focus on the positive, especially since realizing how much it's an essential coping strategy in dealing with depression, but the bottom line is that lilianavonkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09363096499107106137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4019246280434938648.post-68150724492124088022011-09-15T20:27:35.093+01:002011-09-15T20:27:35.093+01:00Hello Lisa,
I've just read some of your posts....Hello Lisa,<br />I've just read some of your posts.The last one made me reply.Thank you for your honest blog.Actually, truth is the only valuable thing in writing.But it is not easy to write what you really feel. <br />You are absolutely right about being yourself.<br />I think writing practice is a good way to cope with difficulties.Oh, I suppose you know that better then me.But if you want Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4019246280434938648.post-17006673507965187192011-09-14T09:29:49.662+01:002011-09-14T09:29:49.662+01:00Hi Lisa
I just saw the article in the Tesco mag, ...Hi Lisa<br /><br />I just saw the article in the Tesco mag, well done you for getting a book published. I wrote my story but only published it for myself. I had treatment 11 years ago and I still remember the day-after-diagnosis panic, convinced I was dying. You're still relatively close to it so I think it is still close. I still have the tendency to think every symptom is a recurrence but Suzehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13269112108869674768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4019246280434938648.post-49119121911357637902011-09-08T18:13:18.750+01:002011-09-08T18:13:18.750+01:00Don't be scared to be upset or less than perfe...Don't be scared to be upset or less than perfect; don't be scared not to be able to laugh. It's ok. Every BlessingFredahttp://www.freda.org.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4019246280434938648.post-23303305954739418462011-09-08T12:47:32.630+01:002011-09-08T12:47:32.630+01:00Lisa, I don't know you but I love you too! Som...Lisa, I don't know you but I love you too! Sometimes though you were just too good, too together, too accepting for me to feel you were for real. But you are. And it's so hard to come to terms with loss. <br /><br />Your blog has helped me enormously but I've always felt a little bit inadequate because I can't measure up to you.I've cried and screamed and cursed fate. I could Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4019246280434938648.post-17871921589843535922011-09-06T03:53:35.967+01:002011-09-06T03:53:35.967+01:00Aw chick!
In a way it was about time. You've ...Aw chick!<br />In a way it was about time. You've been so so strong all this time. You'd be completely and totally abnormal if you hadn't had a moment like this. Who could possibly go through all that you've endured only to shrug their shoulders and act like everything is the same as it was? Your life changed immeasurably and you went through enormous physical and emotional GrĂ¡http://www.twitter.com/grainnemurphynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4019246280434938648.post-14088077050511712302011-09-05T23:12:55.211+01:002011-09-05T23:12:55.211+01:00Lisa, grief for all you've lost does just this...Lisa, grief for all you've lost does just this, ups and bites you on the bum, so to speak, it just happens that way! <br />But just don't stop writing as it is a way of acknowledging it and therefore partway to dealing with what cancer has thrown at you. <br />Enjoy working with Dr Marbles, you'll get there.....<br />love and a ((hug))Helennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4019246280434938648.post-84112835687390013382011-09-05T23:01:04.454+01:002011-09-05T23:01:04.454+01:00I don't know what to say except yes, so true, ...I don't know what to say except yes, so true, thank-you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4019246280434938648.post-45739449249385019322011-09-05T21:25:52.743+01:002011-09-05T21:25:52.743+01:00You see Mac, you think you've got problems? Wa...You see Mac, you think you've got problems? Ward's fucking Tupperware.quarkmonkeynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4019246280434938648.post-80471930253703297202011-09-05T19:11:17.807+01:002011-09-05T19:11:17.807+01:00I think it is the "daring to hope" that ...I think it is the "daring to hope" that is the hardest bit.LittleWitteringnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4019246280434938648.post-20796812745283710002011-09-05T17:35:28.730+01:002011-09-05T17:35:28.730+01:00So I too had a horrifying, terrifying brush with s...So I too had a horrifying, terrifying brush with something terrible that for the most part I thought I'd dealt with but then once a year I found myself back in time, reliving everything - not able to take a breath, crying uncontrollably etc etc. I took it for 4 years then saw an advert in the paper for a quack (sorry, therapist) who used cognitive behavioural therapy. The advert spoke to me Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4019246280434938648.post-1410997929019907152011-09-05T17:02:55.711+01:002011-09-05T17:02:55.711+01:00Miss Lisa,
I can't truly understand the fear ...Miss Lisa,<br /><br />I can't truly understand the fear of re-occurrence (though I know Maarten has the same fear). But I've observed from meeting you a lucky few times, that you are well- loved, and deservedly so. You are an amazing,lovely, sensitive observer of life who has had more then your share of crap arrive in your inbox, but who has dealt with the good and the bad in the best wayFletcher of the Dayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06458067671780604817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4019246280434938648.post-14663769971718801522011-09-05T16:53:46.051+01:002011-09-05T16:53:46.051+01:00It's okay Lisa, I hate Tupperwear too.
Fucki...It's okay Lisa, I hate Tupperwear too. <br /><br />Fucking Tupperwear.Wardotronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4019246280434938648.post-80803212304344870812011-09-05T14:24:19.787+01:002011-09-05T14:24:19.787+01:00Hello Lady Lis,
Like the other commenters, I am ...Hello Lady Lis, <br /><br />Like the other commenters, I am very much only here to say just how human you are. You don't need the pity, or the head tilts or the sorrow. You just need to let it out. And you have. And you will again. And when it comes round again, lets hope its triggered by something a little more exciting than tupperware! But on a more serious note- you're strong, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4019246280434938648.post-79718816176067071432011-09-05T14:22:45.612+01:002011-09-05T14:22:45.612+01:00LL, I love you. I think this post has just forced ...LL, I love you. I think this post has just forced me to take a step that I've been dreading. Thankyou xxxHelenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15187405625806124612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4019246280434938648.post-36642674730458115842011-09-05T12:08:30.948+01:002011-09-05T12:08:30.948+01:00Lisa Lynch,
I know I can speak for all your clos...Lisa Lynch, <br /><br />I know I can speak for all your closest friends when I say that we don't care if you are Gardenbury Lisa, breaking down on the phone Lisa or anywhere in between. But I don't think that's the point really. You can be whatever you want to be; if you want to be smiley on the outside when inside you are falling apart then that is how you need to be. And bloody hellSuzenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4019246280434938648.post-68371721305646050102011-09-05T09:57:45.375+01:002011-09-05T09:57:45.375+01:00Wow Lisa, you really know how to hit hard!
I&#...Wow Lisa, you really know how to hit hard! <br /><br />I've read this slowly. In bite size chunks. As if peeling the lid off the blinking tupperware slowly and wishing I could just close it down instead of sniffing at the content! <br /><br />Thank you for your honesty and thank you also for echoing a lot of thoughts and sentiments that I sporadically go through too and why I want to do AnnaGoAnnanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4019246280434938648.post-62512055418845363202011-09-05T06:37:04.506+01:002011-09-05T06:37:04.506+01:00You're a human darling, you gotta learn to go ...You're a human darling, you gotta learn to go easy on yourself and accept these things will pop up. I'm glad you're booked back in to see Mr Marbles, that will do you good. We all pop the lid on our emotions and reactions and sometimes they only need to open a tiny millimetre for it all to come spilling out. There's nothing wrong with that one bit.Fenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07945553568341010805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4019246280434938648.post-10244291805165471122011-09-04T23:15:04.021+01:002011-09-04T23:15:04.021+01:00Don't be 'be happy, chirpy, carefree, smil...Don't be 'be happy, chirpy, carefree, smiley, boundlessly positive, hopelessly cheerful, Gardenbury Lisa all the time' - that sounds knackering.<br /><br />Shit is going to happen to us all (you've had a pretty meaty dose) and feeling like you won't cope is being human. It's worth saying that you're doing a pretty good job. So long as you keep being Lisa Lynch, well Quarkmonkeynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4019246280434938648.post-15517988940028373992011-09-04T22:20:12.671+01:002011-09-04T22:20:12.671+01:00No matter what you've been through or who you ...No matter what you've been through or who you are, even if you are as amazing as one Lisa Lynch ;) there are times when everything just comes out and you can't pretend you're ok. Concussion really doesn't help at all - in fact it is very common for it to completely throw you emotionally for no reason whatsoever. You're human and this is not only normal, but its perfectly ok toKimnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4019246280434938648.post-25186947337605752882011-09-04T21:04:51.129+01:002011-09-04T21:04:51.129+01:00Today I had a really lovely day out with my extend...Today I had a really lovely day out with my extended family- saw my Aunt who starts radiotherapy on Wed same day as me- she just text to say how positive I am and what an inspiration I'm being! HA!! Had to reply with the truth that she only saw the smiley side I want people to see- and she should probably know that I spent the hour long drive to her house sobbing and arguing and being a totalErin Xxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16105967683231971654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4019246280434938648.post-90280656383577488102011-09-04T20:34:34.245+01:002011-09-04T20:34:34.245+01:00Thank you for this. It expresses very well fears I...Thank you for this. It expresses very well fears I have. I've only just finished chemo. I have got children, but only because my cancer hit me in later life - I am 54. The utterly changed life is for all of us with cancer. Yes, it is appalling and I applaud you for voicing what many of us think xxxAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15726540916578169593noreply@blogger.com