Update from Shezbert

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I haven't blogged for a while or replied to anybody else's blog as I got sick of the back biting and nastiness that seemed to appear.  However I do miss my cyber friends and after receiving a few personal messages, enquiring if everything was ok I thought i'd do an update.

Following on from our first family holiday in over 12 years, we had a family Christmas at the Tin Villa, it was really nice and made even more so by the fact that Luke made dinner with Ross doing the Yorkies. Big Smile  I did have to wash up though.Sad  The New Year saw Laurence full of cold and a few times he had trouble getting his breath, which was really scary.  The nebuliser was brought back into play but for only a day or so.

January 11th and it was back for Laurence's 3 monthly oncology appointment.    Laurence is having no symptoms from the liver & lung tumours at present, so he doesn't want chemo while he feels so well, especially as its considered very unlikely to work on his tumour type.   So after some discussion and checking the last lot of blood tests (liver function B12 levels etc) which are really good considering all things, we managed to get the appointment moved to 6 monthly, with the understanding that we would get intouch if he starts having any symptoms.  Oh and that I can ring his secretary for our holiday letters and he will put it in his records for the holiday insurance.

I have changed my work day to a 4 day a week so we can spend more time together.  We are also busy booking & working through things we always said we'd do but never have, like go to London for a weekend to see a show,  5th March train to London to see Wicked then on the Saturday going to the Natural History Museum.  27th June going to Scotland for the week as we want to go to Edinburgh.

Going to Reading at the backend of Feb to see our son Brett as he lives & works there.

Hoping to try fit in a few days in Rome as I have been but Laurence hasn't and I so want him to see it as I think its a super place.  Then of course its back to good old Tenerife in April for our fix of the sun.  I'm also going to Silverstone again this year but Laurence is not a fan so is going to the Tin Villa with one of our son's. And of course The Tin Villa reopens again in March. 

So you can see that we are being very busy people at the moment, trying to cram as much into life as we can while Laurence is able. 

So to all my cyber friends I wish you Love Life & plenty of Laughter. Please feel free to message or email me anytime you like and remember I'll be watching you Wink

 

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  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    how weird we both got fed up with this site at the same time and both blogged today - spooky!!!!

    Really REALLY glad everything is going so well for you and Laurence, boy he sure doesn't have time to be ill with the schedule you guys have coming up.

    London.......a stones throw from me!  Enjoy the show, we went to see We Will Rock You at xmas and it was fab!

    Lovely to hear from you Shez.

    Love & Strength

    Debs xx

  • Really nice to see you back on the site again, Shelley. It is such a shame that the 'nasty brigade' has stopped good people like you and Debs from contributing to this site. I don't go into chat and rarely meet 'nasties' elsewhere. I think I was the only one not to know about the 'Danielle Clark' scandal.  I hope you will visit the site more often - it is lonely here without the old 'What Now?' friends.

    Enjoy all your holidays.

    Bests wishes,

    KateG

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Isn't life strange? I have been feeling so down for the last week (mainly due to chemo) and now today all my old Whatnow buddies are blogging (Debs, Drew, Andrew and Shelley) and it's given me a real lift. The chemo is still causing me problems, but today I enjoyed reading everyone's blog and it has given me the lift I needed. So thank you all for helping an old friend.

    Shelley, what an action packed year you and Laurence have....good for you!!

    Angela x

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    nice to see you to see you nice !!!!!!

    loadsa love xNx

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    How lovely to see you back on the site, Shelley and to hear all your news - I can't get over how busy you and Laurence have been.

    Hope you have a fabulous time on your various trips.

    Hugs, Kate xx