hello everyone,
You are very kind to read my blog and send me messages ... anyone who is technologically challenged remember I am the most incompetent IT person that ever walked to earth so please send me an email!!! It is really nice to know I am not alone and that so many of my friends are sending me good vibrations.
I had a good visit to Peter Grant today. Greg came along for moral support which was nice because I always manage to get myself a little wound up. Apart from being such a lovely man who apologises all the time for the chemo drugs making me nauseated and asks permission to examine me and apologises if he needs to squeeze or push or whatever ....... he also said that I had made good progress and that it was very promising. Peter felt that there had been a 50 % reduction in the tumor he could feel !!!! So that special cocktail or chemo, Body Psycho therapy, Twisties and Licorice must have been doing me good.
The plan is of course MORE chemo over the next 2 weeks and then a repeat CAT scan to see how its all going and then probably 2 or 3 more cycles (which is really 4 to 6 because I have one of the drugs twice) and after that I plan to live happily ever after for as long as I can.
I prefer not to get too excited because I have a long way to go but I feel fortunate that at least at this stage I am heading back to health and hopefully remission. I am going to enjoy our family holiday SOOO much when I finally get to stop!!! I just hope my stomach can manage a few more months of feeling like crap. What's that old saying "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger!!!"
I am driving Danny Boy to basketball tomorrow morning and then we are going shopping for lollies and ice cream for his birthday party this Sunday. So whilst sensible mothers are having yum cha's or special cooked lunches I am genuinely looking forward to the pitter patter (stomping) of a house full of 8 year old boys as they kick back and have some fun. Bridget is bringing a girlfriend and is doing her best to be enthusiastic but I know she is always secretly overjoyed when hers is the next birthday and Danny has to wait another 12 months and vice versa.
I have been enjoying my dog walks on these beautiful Autumn days and the last episodes of the West Wing I watched were just fantastic. The kids and my lovely neighbour Kelli arrived home from school today to find me crying over one particularly poignant episode when the President was burying a homeless war veteran and I had to qickly reassure them that I had positive news from the doctor and that there is nothing I enjoy better than a good cry in front of the telly. OK I probably enjoy a good Saints victory marginally more!!
I hope you all have a great weekend and Happy Mother's Day to you or your mother. My beautiful mum died when I was 34 but I always remember her and know that she lives on in me, and my sister Rose (Saint Rose of Moonee Ponds) and my darling Bridget.
Love
Pauline
xxxxx
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Pauline I love reading your blog - you make me laugh and you make me cry. I loved what you wrote about your mother - you captured in words what many of us think especially those of us who have lost our mother.
Sr Julie told me about a great movie which we saw on the weekend. It is a Norwegian movie, with sub-titles, called "As it is in heaven". It was really uplifting and I recommend it. It is on at Balwyn but not for much longer.
I am looking forward to catching up with you soon, love Julie X
Great to catch up with the latest Pauline. I think I may be even less computer literate than you. I was very pleased to send the first message and felt confident about the next one...this is about the 4th time I've tried. Drove home from Colac today in good rain....quite a delight! As is the sight of the preview on the screen!!
Love
Julie O'B
Hey Pauline, Go Saints and what about Clinton Jones, where did he come from? With that haircut I think he is channeling Trevor Barker.
How did you enjoy Bastard Boys, I thought it was great though Bill Kelty is right to be upset about that wig! Anyway it was one of those 'those were the days' moments remembering the picket at the docks. I even had a cameo, I was in a poster that was on a wall behind Greg Combet on the first night.
Am off to the G this Saturday we should beat Hawthorn don't you think?
Love Mary-Anne
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