by Di Shearer | Aug 22, 2026 | An Update On My Health
Two questions that make life more difficult in facing this diagnosis are the ones so commonly asked. How are you feeling? How’s the treatment going? The answers are elusive to say the least! I’m extremely unwell but pretend most of the time that I’m not. I’ve not lost...
by Di Shearer | Aug 17, 2026 | An Update On My Health
It is a month now since I received a diagnosis it has taken me a month to even begin to understand. This life changing disease of the very marrow of my bones has crept up over this my 82nd year, with below par energy over six months. Now I’ve been through the weeks of...
by Di Shearer | Jul 20, 2026 | An Update On My Health
I have some difficult news to share. During a recent trip to Brisbane, I was admitted to hospital with severe pain in my right wrist and hand. While I was there, routine tests revealed that my blood count was not normal. After returning home, I underwent a bone marrow...
by Di Shearer | Jul 20, 2026 | An Update On My Health
I have lived by the maxim: I will not die an unlived life I have asked myself over and over: is the life that I am living the life that wants to express itself through me Now as I face a cancer diagnosis and a threat to quality and length of life, I am asking: how...
by Di Shearer | Nov 30, 2025 | Poems
Too Busy So busy doing, there’s no time for being.So busy living, there’s no thought of dying.So busy thinking, there’s no mindfulness. So distracted, there’s no concentra2on.So distraught, there’s no freedom here.So disaffected, there’s no space for seeing. So tense...
