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I had a good weekend. I'm still super excited about entering the International Street Photography Awards over Christmas. I should try to forget about it a little (I have my mind on something else as well though hehe), but I'm just so excited about it. I don't know why. I've never won a photography competition before. But you gotta dream big, else what's the point? Actually it's just as well the first prize doesn't involve a Leica camera or I'd be quite disappointed if...
Today is a sad day, after hearing the awful news that a Sydney Cancer Patient, Kristian Anderson (who met his fame after posting the following video on the internet) has died. I wanted to share with you his video, and the story to go with, because, while we Australians may be familiar with his story, I am aware that the majority of the population on Macmillan is from overseas, and may not be so familiar. And I wanted you all to see it:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-01-02/youtube-cancer-star-dies...
Posted by Sophie T on 8 Dec 2011 9:42 PM
She came to live with us cos she needed 24hour care and we didnt want her in a care home. She was only aloud at a cancer home, where people go to die. So we made her live at ours so we could look after her.
Posted by Sophie T on 8 Dec 2011 10:13 PM
I dont forget because i dont think about her, i forget because its so unreal.
- Fantasy ?
Just because she was my nan everyone thinks oh shes just old its ok. She isnt old. She is 63,
- Change in tenses.
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Tonight I am very angry, so angry I dont know where to start.
My husband was supposed to have a cafeter in yesterday, when I left today he still hadnt got one.
He was soaking wet and had been for some time when I got there. He is semi-awake, sometimes he trys to get a bottle but doesnt manage.
Because he is very uncomfortable to be moved around, he is naked lying on his bed with just a sheet over him. He is in and out of sleep,but trys to use a bottle, no curtains around because as I said hes not...
It's been a bit up and down for the past week. We have had days of excessive mucous,nausea, vomiting and exhaustion and some other better days. I think overall things are improving a little. Unfortunately the treatment has upset Pat's Diabetes so we have had a leg infection to cope with.
I, of for my sins got a bladder infection on Christmas Eve and by the time I got to a doctor on Wednesday it had got a hold but is improving.
Tonight we are going in to neighbours to see in the New Year...
Right so feeling like a rant to finish 2011 . At the start of December I had a lump removed that has been there for well over a year. I have been to the doctors/hospital about it several times and after scans have always been told its just a lipoma a fatty lump, nothing to worry about and certainly don't need to remove it! But something has been niggling away in the back of my mind so I went back to the hospital last summer and they agreed to remove it. I had it taken out at the start of December...
Christmas & moving house has been a great distraction however now I am left thinking about what is happening and finding it difficult to not break down. I have so many questions again but the one, the main and most important one is when will I know if they got it all, and if it has spread anywhere else. Trying to organise life post op is quite stressful but I do have amazing friends who have stepped up as I only knew they would. Still, I am utterly terrified of what comes next and can't stop...
Just thought I would write an update as I have been absent from the site for a while.
Well Christmas was not as bad as I thought in some respects. That said, the B&B was shocking and totally unsafe so I checked straight out again. I was so poorly with awful sickness that I went to stay at Parents house. Think they were shocked to see how ill I was after not visiting or having bothered to make much contact since I became ill. I think it did them good to see me like that really. That said they still...
Which is not a good idea at the moment...cos if I cry, I can't breathe also....!! bloody lungs...
Just a couple more days and I get the permanent drain in....so hopefully, that taste from hell in my mouth wll go......and i can start eating normal again.
weighed myself yesterday and i'm just about holding onto 7 stone...so not bad I suppose.
Little and often seems to be the way to do it, I have those fortisip drinks but they taste like shite now...
I've been indoors for a couple of weeks...
