Lifestyle
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11 Lessons I learnt from having breast cancer
Today is the two year anniversary of my mastectomy. Reading that sentence feels surreal. Saying it sounds surreal. I went through this, and somehow it still feels surreal. Just over two years ago, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Stage 1, fairly aggressive. I was 36. I share my story in the hopes that it pushes people to take action if they generally don’t, pass on a few lessons that I learnt, and as a reflection of the gratitude I have for how I came out of this. I was extremely blessed throughout this experience. I have an incredible husband, great family and friends, good health insurance and insurance plans, and…
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Our Kitty Foster Fails
Montenegro’s strays One of the challenges of living in Montenegro is that you see stray cats and dogs everywhere. There’s quite a bad problem with strays. It’s so easy to say ‘just ignore it’, but we’re animal lovers, so naturally, we got ‘involved’! Now we have a bunch of Foster Fails, and Foster Work-in-Progress! I get a lot of people asking me what’s up with ALL the cats on my instagram account… well, here’s the story! Kotor is known for all their cats. The Old Town is full of them. They’re not feral. They’re friendly and are keen for a snack or a scratch! There are some great people doing…
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I’m starting over.
Just over a year ago, my husband and I decided to ‘start over’. We left the groups of companies we had shares in, the company we co-founded, sold everything, and moved from South Africa to Montenegro. Such a simple sentence! It still feels pretty surreal. Obviously, it’s never as simple as it all sounds. We had been considering moving overseas already, but were planning on moving to the UK, one of the businesses in the group was based there, so it made sense. Then I was diagnosed with breast cancer in March 2018, and everything changed. I had a bilateral mastectomy and a bunch of reconstruction surgeries. This put me…
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South Africans in Montenegro
Risan, Kotor Bay; Montenegro The view from our house in Risan. A little town we currently call home. It’s a really old town, on the side of a hill, in the Kotor Bay. It’s about 25 minutes from Kotor Old Town, which is where the cruise ships dock when they come in. A lot of people think we’re in Italy. I think it’s the confusion with Monte Carlo. Montenegro is a small country next to Croatia. Population of about 600 000. They speak Montenegrin, which is REALLY similar to Serbian, so we spend a lot of time on Google Translate! Why did we choose Montenegro? Both Richard and I were…
