A Few Words...

...about how it is going now with my health. I'm still officially on sick leave, for about eight months now (ppffff!). Both of my eyes are still quite poor, especially the one which is still recovering from the surgery in January. For a few months, I was being treated in Amsterdam by the best specialists, but for now there are no more "tricks" they can try to improve my vision. Luckily the treatment did help a bit.

There are also positive news: I'm trying to work again in very small amounts. Mostly I do some little things from home, but every now and then I go to the office (what a joy to meet my lovely colleagues and catch up with them!). I'm still not able to do a lot, so this doesn't affect my sick leave. Just need to try and find out how much I can do. This really means a world to me - sitting frustrated at home doing nothing would make me lose my mind!

A little while ago I visited a doctor whose job is to estimate my situation and predict the chances for getting back to work. His opinion felt very negative (maybe they have to keep the worst case scenario in mind??) and I was quite disappointed after this meeting.

Everything at my workplace has to be examined. The opinions of both the employer and myself will be heard, the working conditions and my skills and restrictions will be measured. After that I will hear the judgement: is it realistic to expect to work again and to what extent from now on. To be honest I'm quite nervous about all this, it is scary.

Green Thoughts

Today was the Earth Day. For the sake of this important day, an interesting happening, Time2ACT, was organised in Leeuwarden already earlier this week. I decided to participate and it was really instructive to listen to different experts telling about their work for saving the oceans from pollution and other environmental issues. The quests were interviewed by lovely Hadassah de Boer. And, of course have to mention: I even had the honor to meet Mr Braungart, developer of the Cradle to Cradle Design.

Great ideas, worth checking. We should all ACT!
http://www.actglobal.nl/time2act/about
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle_to_cradle

Silence

It's been a while since my last post. Just being quiet feels good sometimes. Especially now during the Holy Week, which we in Finnish literally call the "Quiet Week".

I'm planning to get the feel of Easter with watching The Passion, a BBC mini series about the last days of Jesus. It'll start within a few minutes...