Family
Personal blog posts about my family or myself.We bought a house!
Our new home has five big bedrooms (so we now have a “spare” bedroom), a fire place, triple garage all on a good size block of land with a decent back yard. After renting for 14 years, it’s finally good to have a place to call our own.
Good and Bad news
Even though I’ve been reacting well to treatment, doctors want me to be aware of the reality of the situation: my cancer is terminal. It is likely that I have less than 12 month to live. My intention is to prove the doctors wrong.
My Last Cancer Update (hopefully)
My most recent posts on this blog have been about my health and battle with pancreatic cancer. Thankfully the growth was discovered early enough for doctors to be able to totally remove the tumour. Six months of chemotherapy has hopefully reduced the risk of...
Christmas Photos 2019
2019 Christmas Morning Family Photo Just a quick look (above) at our annual family photo in front of the Christmas tree. We always post our traditional Christmas pic on the family blog, and I try to then re-post here on my personal blog. This year, I can honestly say...
Cancer and Chemotherapy
The last couple of posts, here on my personal blog, have been about my health issues and diagnosis of Pancreatic Cancer. Since then I've spent eight weeks in hospital at Monash Clayton following the "Whipples Procedure" surgery, which removed the head of my...
Cancer Surgery
I explained in my previous blog post that I was in hospital with what is more than likely a cancerous growth on the head of my pancreas. Tomorrow I'm having major surgery to remove the tumour, which will also mean loosing the head of my pancreas, gall bladder,...
I’m in hospital
As I write this, from beside my hospital bed, I've spent the last eight days in two different hospitals. All of that time has been the investigation phase, as the doctors try and work out what's going on. It started two weeks ago, just feeling sick. I thought...
Christmas Morning Family Photo
Christmas Morning Family Photo Even though our eldest son, Josh, is almost 19, he's still with us and able to continue our tradition of a family photo on Christmas morning. We started taking our family group photo in-front of the Christmas tree in 2010, when...
18 Months Later… My Mega Catch-Up Blog Post
The key to a successful blog, so they say, is regular updates. "Regular updates" probably means at least a weekly blog post, so not doing anything to this site for more than a year, isn't really good form. Back in April I realised it had been 12 months since I'd...
Talking technology with my 7 year old daughter
The hairbrush singing video my daughter (Karla) and her cousins filmed on an iPad Mini has prompted another video. With a couple of cameras set up on tri-pods to record us, Karla and I sat down for a chinwag (that's Aussie for "chat" or "talk") about the progress of...
Hairbrush singing
Selfie music videos My seven year old daughter, Karla, had two of her older cousins (Tanisha and Kailee) stay over night recently. They're all good kids and can keep themselves entertained. I didn't think much of it when Karla woke me up early to ask if they could...
2016 Christmas Family Photos
Well that's another Christmas done. Thanks everyone for a great day! Every year for a long time I've done a family photo in-front of the tree on Christmas morning. This year I decided to take the family photos to the next level, and take group shots of everyone at...