February 19, 2005

Hi everybody!!!
Well it certainly has been a while since I posted. Things are going well for me. Currently I have no evidence of disease in the head and neck which is where it was initially found. YAY!!!
I went for an onc appointment in January and they found that the lymph nodes in my mediasteinum are all enlarged. I was supposed to go back on the third of this month. I tried!!!

I woke up on the morning of the third to the sound of heavy rain, gusty winds and the sound of the weatherman on the radio telling me that we were in the middle of the storm of the century. "Sure", I thought. I decided to go to Melbourne anyway, three hours drive. I thought that in three hours the road would be all clear and the storm would have passed.

By the time I got to Melbourne that storm had passed and the sun was shining, but there had been so much water that the roads were all still cut. I thought that I would take a shortcut and got caught there as well. I decided at this stage to head back to the highway and see how things were going there. I turned onto a road and could see the highway about one and a half kilometers in front of me, unfortunately there was also about half a kilometer of water as well. I was debating driving through the water when a car crested a small rise coming toward me. They were going way to fast when they hit the water and the car aquaplaned and then disappeared into the table drain. This was around five or six feet deep in water. As there was absolutely no one else around I had to run through the water on the road to where they were and jump into the water and help them to get out of the car. As a result I was soaking wet, late for my appointment, and ready to go home.

So to cut the rest of the story short, I rang the hospita,l changed the appointment and came home again. Pretty frustrating when on a normal day I was only half an hour from the hospital when I turned around!!

So I am now off to the respiratory clinic on the 24th of this month to have the enlarged nodes checked out!

Hope I get there this time!!!

Posted by Possum at 02:36 PM | Comments (1)

December 31, 2004

Well I have made it through the silly season with nothing much to report on the big "C" front. I go for another set of scans and bloods on the 12th of January but I am not worried at all.

As far as the silly season goes I had a hell of a one. I got called to a job on Christmas day that involved recovering the bodies of four drowning victims. All from the same family. It was a very sad day.

I am trying to recover from that still. Not sleeping too well yet but it will get better. I hope everyone who reads this had a nice Christmas at least before the boxing day tsunami's throughout Asia. I shed a tear last night for all of the victims who did not survive and for all of those who lost someone.

Here is to a new year. I hope that for me that it is not as eventful as the last twelve months.

Posted by Possum at 09:09 PM | Comments (0)

December 18, 2004

Hi folks, I am still in the land of the living. I don't seem to get time to post as often as I used to but I guess at the moment there is not as much happening on the cancer front as there used to be.

I decided after my last lot of scans not to worry about having cancer until I had to go back for more tests. It is definitely working for me!!! I have definitely been living again.

I work as a cook at a church camp at a nearby town and at the moment we have a group called canteen staying with us. For those not from a Australia canteen is a group for people aged 14 to 24 who have cancer. It has been a bit of a reminder to me of just how lucky I am. The group we have now is only Victorian kids but in a couple of weeks we have the national camp staying as well and apparently the kids in the national group are a little sicker than the ones we have now. I am sure that I will come home every night and cry, but at least I can make sure that their time at camp is great fun!!!!!

Anyway all the best.

Posted by Possum at 04:04 PM | Comments (1)