Whenever I receive chemo the immediate side-effects are minimal and I manage to live a fairly normal week afterwards, but the cumulative effect is building. It is taking longer for the platelets to return to normal and I seem to be consistently anaemic. This means that once again my normal round is delayed a week [...]
I enjoy biographies of great people and great Christians but biographies have their limitations. I find there is a tendency to compare oneself unfavourably with those written about. We can begin to feel our own lives are very mundane: we seem to fall short by comparison. They seem like giants, we seem like dwarfs.
I was [...]
On July 15th I had the CT Scan to observe the initial effects of the treatment and received the report on Tuesday. There are a couple of parts that need a medical interpreter (Jargonese seems to be rife in medical reports too!), however the report seems to indicate that significant progress is being made.
The report [...]
Today I am 65 and now qualify for the National Superannuation! I am no longer on an Invalid’s benefit – meaning I am no longer an ‘in valid’ person. I can now legitimately say I’m retired, whatever that means.
Two years ago there was real doubt that I would make it to this day. I am [...]
On Friday, 9th July when Abraham and I drove down to Hanmer Springs for the weekend, we stopped at Maruia Falls for lunch. It is on the main highway, about 22 kilometres south of Murchison. The falls are interesting in that they were formed during the 1929 Murchison earthquake. I wanted to show and explain [...]
This should have been posted a few days ago but since returning from Hanmer Springs last weekend I have been laid low with a cough and chest infection.
Abraham and I drove down to Hanmer Springs on Thursday 8th to spend the weekend amongst old friends and to collect Bronwen who had been down there for [...]
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