Waitng
I know Karen has made mention in her blog of the waiting, but thought I would just touch on it as well. I know the wheels are in motion and the cancer therapy juggernaut and everything that goes with...
View ArticleIt's About To Get Real
So just over a month since we were told of the cancer and it is about to get very real. I have finished up work until the first week of December. This in part is because I was just not able to cope...
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The Last Supper
Well here we are on the eve of destruction. The destruction of wayward cells. Radiotherapy starts tomorrow after what seems an excruciating wait. Mum arrived on Friday and has already been busy...
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Day 1
Not really sure what to say about today. We have been waiting for so long for this day, (not in a good way like Christmas or a birthday), but more a day you just want to get to because the quicker it...
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Ground Hog Day
I think you know where this one is going. Day 3 and not too many surprises. The treatment process is certainly a well oiled machine. We generally leave 45 minutes before our scheduled therapy. This...
View ArticleBlack Hole Sun Won't You Come And Wash Away The Rain
Week 1 down and feeling pretty dark about the whole proceedings. Really hate what is happening and what it is doing to our family. A necessary evil? I will be stronger for this challenge? Really?...
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This Is The Week
This is the week! We have been told by nursing staff, Head of Oncology and the Oral surgeon that by the end of this week of treatment, everything will come to a head, escalate, become apparent or fall...
View ArticleExceeding Expectations
Well as week 2 of radiotherapy draws to a close, our expectations of the side effects Karen is having now and to come, have been met and exceeded and not in a good way. We had been told at the end of...
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11 of 33
Today marks a third of the way through the radiotherapy treatment and the 28th of December can not come quick enough. I hate writing this blog with just more doom and gloom and increasing pain and...
View ArticleIf You Have Poo, Fling it Now
After an earlier than usual wake up and subsequent bottle feed for Nate, I find myself lying in bed wide awake with lots of thoughts whirling around in my head about the last couple of days. So...
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Week's End
Just a quick note to round off the week. It's Saturday morning and the boys have been up for a few hours. Karen is still asleep thanks to her new friend morphine. After yesterdays appointment, Dr...
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Week 4
Week four sees us almost to the half way point. We were feeling pretty buoyed after the weekend as the swelling and pain seemed to have subsided just a bit, but like most things along this journey we...
View ArticleBad to Worse
Well today capped off another week that just finished bad to worse. I am really looking forward to the week when I can say that it went from worse, back to bad. We are waiting for the plateau of pain,...
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Week 5 - Feeding Tube
Well, things continue to be pretty messed up. I am not going to say a whole lot. The photos kind of speak for themselves. The usual, week 1 on the left and week 5 on the right. The burning on the...
View ArticleRest Day
Feels like a Friday today. The last of the school graduation nights was last night and the kids broke up from school at 12.30 today. It is officially, the school holidays have started. A very close...
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Rock Bottom
Just looked back on the last post and it has been almost a week since my last entry. I normally like to do a Monday post with the latest photo comparison but Monday afternoon and evening was a write...
View ArticleLight At The End Of The Tunnel
I have to stop saying dumb things like, "surely it can't get any worse." Guess what? It did. On Thursday, Nate took a turn for the worse after his operation, getting an infection. With a fever that...
View ArticleBusy Getting On With Living - Some Final Thoughts
Christmas day 2012. At the start of this blog it seemed so far away, but here I am, sitting here on Christmas night, feeling slightly uncomfortable having eaten and drunk just a little too much, but...
View ArticleSix Months On
My last post was on Christmas Eve last year and at that point I had decided not to continue blogging this journey anymore. We had got to the end of the radiotherapy treatment and I thought from here on...
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All In A Days Work
Saturday morning, the youngest down for a nap, the older 2 busy gaming, Karen is at the RAH doing her Hyperbaric stuff and I have a spare few minutes to get a few things down with coffee in hand.We are...
View ArticleHyperbaric Treatment
After almost 30 sessions, Karen's hyperbaric treatment finally comes to an end this week. It has certainly been a long 5 weeks of treatment. Although not as physically taxing on Karen as the...
View ArticleFor The Newly Diagnosed
I can not take credit for the below writings. It was written by Jeff Tomczek who was diagnosed with leukemia at the age of 27. This column had found its way onto one of the online cancer groups...
View Article"But You Look fine."
Well, it has been a time since I sat and put some thoughts into hopefully meaningful sentences to convey our journey of ACC and the life it gives you. I did in fact blog earlier in the year, but I...
View ArticleCarpe Diem
KEATING Now, Mr… Pitts. That’s a rather unfortunate name. Mr. Pitts, where are you?KEATING Mr. Pitts, would you open your hymnal to page 542 and read the first stanza of the poem you find there?PITTS...
View ArticleThe Great Cancer Conspiracy Theory and Other Misdemeanours
The very mention that you have cancer certainly brings them out of the woodwork. You know the people. The people who offer an opinion, a course of treatment, a suggestion of how and why you got...
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