Portsmouth Massage - Kirsten McFarlane MGHT - Holistic Therapist

08/09/2025

Urgent request for transport to hospital today (lol!): can you help?

Hi all angels who are supporting me in my cancer surgery journey xx

I hope you are well, thank you so much for your wonderful assistance xx I am scheduled for breast cancer surgery 29 th September and the next few weeks is preparations and several hospital appointments.

May I ask if you might have availability to help pre or post surgery? Sorting / moving and transport?

Allotment tending help:
Would you like to go harvest the Hamburg black grapes, fruits , worm wood, hops etc ( for you, some for me)?

Urgent Today:

Sorry for random last minute request today: sorry I'm stuck for getting to a hospital appointment this afternoon, so just asking everyone if they might be able to help, would lewey be able to drive me? Even one way?

apologies for the short notice, I have an appointment at QA hospital this afternoon 1.30pm.

I haven't been able to get transport and the quote for accessible tax is £70! Return :-(

I thought I should just put out there; could you take me ?

Many thanks Kirsten

07/09/2025

06/09/2025

Health update: 06/09/25: I have stopped work due to ongoing rehab from last year's breast cancer surgery, & the resulting neurological disorder that disabled me thereafter. New cancer has been growing, and I will be having mastectomy on September 29th 2025.

Please send all your supportive energy to me through this healing journey :-) I focus on love joy and creating my new life of health and joy.

I am enabling my return to growing and sharing my innate powers of nurturing, healing and creativity. I look forward to sharing therapy sessions with my clients after this period of healing and recreation.

I hope to start a paced return to work in the new year xx.

02/09/2025

This is awesome, accessible water sports would be great too, so disabled people can use the paddle boards etc too.

We've been looking at the potential of a new watersports centre in Eastney. We recently held a consultation and over 1,800 responses were received.

✅ 64% would be very likely to use a new centre
🏄 Paddleboarding & kayaking were top choices
🌱 You want green features like solar panels
🚿 Changing rooms, showers & accessible facilities matter
☕ A café and new toilets were clear favourites

When asked "What types of sports facilities would you like to see included in the new watersports centre?" only 5% indicated a swimming pool or refurbishment of the existing pool. There will be a new pool and learner pool built at nearby Bransbury Park, construction starting in early 2026.

So, what now?

We'll clear the Eastney site, explore funding opportunities, develop plans, and see if a "pop-up" centre could provide some of the facilities sooner.

Find out more by following the link in the comments.

14/08/2025

Ok so there is dcis breast cancer back. Probably a few months/weeks worth. Probably because I was unable to have radiotherapy or endocrine therapy meds as I was too ill with fnd.

Will get a full torso CT scan in next 2 wks to check cancer not spread, then review appt within next 3 wks. Then they schedule surgery.

I expressed my concerns of surgery triggering worsening of FND symptoms, new paralysis , seizures, digestive shut down.

I said I was traumatised and have PTSD from last year's hospital experience including clinical , referral and administrative errors which triggered and worsened the fnd.

This time we have the fnd diagnosis community services from go, physio, dietitian and medications on place . This will hopefully ensure that the horror of last year doesn't recur. Xx

On a positive note this is new current evidence I needed for the payplan debt write off for medical conditions requested by creditors. Proof still affecting my daily life, and finances.

I also still need to apply for mortgage life insurance for critical illness, which I have been too ill and unable to process yet, and this new evidence will be needed for that too. So that's good.

Just so many medical , financial and daily living tasks to manage. It's been a really tough year and this will make extra hard work ahead to bear. I will focus on the positive, and pace. Try not to get lost in fear and overwhelm. Having your support really helps stop me falling into darkness, I never want to feel hopeless and suicidal again. Together we create our beautiful reality, thankyou so much ###

14/08/2025

I am going with Casper to my cancer breast screening and biospies results appointment (4.30pm), please send me strength, peace and love to see me though this. whether it's negative or positive cancer diagnosis, having everyone's support will help me though my ongoing health recovery xx thank you all for your support and love.

Lots of love Kirsten

10/08/2025

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16/07/2025

my miraculous resurrection return to work post medical crisis year:. (‘Yer what ? lol x )

My Return to life started winter equinox when a friend took me for my first outing from confines of house, street, or appointments in 5 months.

My paced return to work started January 19th 2025 with going to the studio to do 1 client, as my entire days ‘activity’. Very carefully lead rehab by beloved community physiotherapist melody xx. Melody is a gem 🙂.

My first rehab return to work client session was so beautiful and I cried and thanked my client at the end, saying, this was an amazing healing session for both of us.

I was blessed to nurture and care for 35 clients January 19th until 7th June 2025.

I am blessed that the manager of the victory centre did all he could to support me as I had had no income from july 2024, including that I didn’t pay arrears until February (6months) due to my medical and financial crisis. I didn’t get my pip disability benefit back payment until then, and used it to pay my arrears ( amount at everything else).. He did all he could, but ultimately he had to terminate my studio lease contract end of July 2025.

Another client was a mum of someone who used to bring their child to my art classes over 15 years ago. Jane was so inspiring and encouraging that I should persevere to keep the studio, start doing art classes again. I really would love to teach the next generation of kids art classes again, including her grandchild 🙂 .

But it won’t be at this studio. Wherever my creative nurturing path leads, I won’t be sharing it with the world from thi s beautiful studio anymore, x

It was a beautiful , magical therapy space that I and my clients cherished. I will be eternally grateful for this time. It is time to clear the path for a new beginning. X

2 of the last clients were international crew prepping for the clipper round the world race. Every year I see professional sports folk for the great south run, yachting races , as well as all the military and naval folk. It’s been such a wonderful journey with you all. Thanks for all the amazing sessions we have shared. I started professional therapy work in 2009. But I’ve practised this since I was a kid, first learning reiki, accupressure, massage age 13. 🙂

Since January, it’s been an epic hard work slog to rebuild my life. Starting with just being able to wash and dress without seizures. Although I have ended carers daily in July 2025, I still can’t do day to day living tasks as and when needed.

Having carers was exhausting in itself . Now I’m recreating life from ground up, new era. Transition period with carers a few hours a week. Still have community physiotherapy, talking therapy, gp. Bizarrely I was finally referred to fnd pathway by physiotherapist as the hospital doctor consultant failed to do this in August or November 2024 during hospital diagnosis/admission. The appointment is April 2026 lololololloll. What use is that to someone housebound and struggling to live hey?

I also started driving my car a wee bit January to April until licence was revoked on medical grounds as I had voluntarily reported the seizures and neurological condition to dvla. I’m now awaiting my renewed licence (eagerly).

I’m still without electric wheelchair for ambulatory use. I have next appointment early August. I need to apply for a grant as it will cost £2500-5000. I have zero.

If anyone can find ways to lighten my load by reducing tasks i have to get my head around doing , that would be fab. X

This is what the beautiful studio looks like now , in transition back to a 1930’s factory space. I have so much to pack and sort still, so little time. No means physically etc. just an eternal superhuman taurean water ox bull power to get the task done 🙂 nothing but steadfast x please help me, would you like some plants, cactus plants or jade tree babies?

I rescued the cactus from outdoor allotment almost dead. But I can’t take them home, and now don’t have transport for them to go anywhere really, need someone to love them,

The massive fluffy cactus is from allotment neighbour, I found this one last almost dead one in shdredded polytunnel after he passed away and I rescued it, his wife is still my plot neighbour but she didn’t want cacti. The dead one has regrown. The tall one has grown more but isn’t stable and needs a proper cactus person to take over ! 🙂 please come and rescue Gordon’s cactus please 🙂 I will post better photos of things up for grabs including plants asap xx that’s as all I can write now x

Anyone got an hour free come help pack, sort, unscrew shelving from walls?

16/07/2025

We have a sink hole ! 😜

Update 1: august 2024 I had breast cancer surgery which triggered functional neurological disorder with seizures, paralysis extreme sensory symptoms including 100% photophobia. I was hospitalised and housebound with carers. I finally was evicted from the hospital on November 18th. I’m still housebound and disabled.

I attempted a paced return to work January to June 2025 at portsmouth massage. It was so amazing to be with my clients again ; such joy.

I now need to stop work fully for some time and reboot life and work. This includes the closure of the studio at the victory centre.

Thankyou my beloved clients for your patience and support this past year.
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Updayte 2: I have until July 30th to vacate my large therapy studio. I am disabled and pacing my activity, and no transport, money, time, volunteers etc to accomplish this task successfully. So need a new game plan 🙂 and now ta da lol 😂 😜:

Update 3:
A sink hole has appeared outside the loading bay at my work studio!

so there will be no car loads of moving stuff out this week ! Lol.

Universe confirming yurp, it’s time to book just one big van, and a storage space for August !

Trying to make space at home, and volunteers clearing work studio and home by the car load has not worked enough.

It has been a mammoth task so far I am eternally grateful to everyone who has been helping me. It has been very hard to pace it with my medical conditions, and I’m glad that I no longer suffer paralysis and seizure symptoms of fnd, but I must not push it too far in case I come to a grinding halt again. Or end up bed ridden/ back in hospital. That would be a disaster for completing this task of moving out 🙂.

Im also just about to have a second scan appt for 1 year breast cancer check, as there is an anomaly. So I need to be careful as the last mammogram appt triggered a flare, and this appt will be in July too. So pacing my activity is really important, and I need support from you to get through this.

There is only 2 weeks left to vacate my work studio at the victory business centre, so fingers crossed they can fix this sink hole, and I can get van, a storage space and move out in time, x. I am bankrupt following this past years medical crisis and being unable to work, disabled.

I plea for support: please can you help with donating of time, or anything that may help me complete this epic task by end of July?

Donations of an hour to help pack, sort or recycling centre runs, or donations towards the moving costs are most graciously accepted. x

**17/07 update: the victory manager has confirmed I can store my boxes at the centre at least for August , as the unit will be being renovated and the boxes can be out of the they way. So this takes the pressure off to have to find a storage space and van pre end of July 🙂, I just need to box up and clear room fully. Huge relief. I can sort out the final moving van/storage later in August at a healthy pace.

This means I still need volunteers in July to help: sort, box, take stuff to charity, transport me to from studio, do recycling centre runs, do glass recycling. Once for 30 minutes is amazing, whatever you can do .**

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29/03/2025

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