After the intense year of writing and publishing our book and then almost a year of writing my blog while going through chemo treatments, I hit writers block. It all started with a week in hospital at the end of August. The doctors thought I had pneumonia but it turned out to be a lung inflammation caused by the chemo. A couple of weeks after coming home from hospital I started to write my blog and then accidentally deleted it. That's when the writers block hit me. I just couldn't write a word. At first I made some more unsuccessful attempts to write and then realized that when writing the blog I was giving an update on the treatments and side effects. It was the re-living of the bad reactions to the chemo that I could not do. It was still all too raw. I needed to escape cancer for a while so made a point of doing things that took my mind off the cancer. The chemo was stopped because my lungs needed to heal and all the side effects have slowly disappeared. I am still on a break from chemo and feel alive again. I am just enjoying every moment of every day. I love this time of year. The colours on the leaves are beautiful especially on sunny days when the sky is an incredible deep blue. There is no mistaking that it is fall because the evenings are getting cooler but that means we can turn on the fire which makes the family room so cozy. Life is good.