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  • “Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife” Franz Schubert

    The last 24 hours have highlighted the difficulties of living with Rupert. Swings and roundabouts, snakes and ladders, one step forward and two steps backwards, etc. I had a CAT Scan and a PET Bone Scan on Thursday and received the CAT Scan report the same day and the PET Scan Report this morning. I…

  • And here I was thinking how clever I am!

    When I decided to name my cancer Rupert I thought I was a groundbreaker with such a clever name. This week some nark sent me a photo of a dude in England who labelled his cancer Rupert in 1994! Had I known that this bloke had usurped me, I would have called my invader Murdoch.…

  • WHY BOTHER?

    “The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room,especially if there is no cat.” Confucius. I am giving serious thought towards submitting a request to have a new step introduced into the Medical lexicon of the evolution of accepting an Oncologist’s prognosis. It would be called “The Drinking Decaf Coffee”…

  • “Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.”

    My appointment with the Oncology Department is scheduled for February 23rd and all being well I will commence nine weeks of Chemotherapy shortly thereafter. The side effects this time will likely include nausea, hair loss and of course, fatigue! My hair falling out and the nausea I can live with but if the Chemo causes…

  • “The person who takes medicine must recover twice: once from the disease and once from the medicine.”

    I suspect when the writers penned these lines for Bullet Tooth Tony (one of the all time great characters of British Cinema by the way) they were using it as a metaphor for the trials and tribulations of Prostate Cancer Treatments. I really am beginning to wonder whether the constant fatigue, frequent hot flushes, anatomical…

  • HOW MUCH LONGER, HOW FAR TO GO?

    I’d love to be able to tell you that I’m travelling okay but I’ve never been comfortable with duplicity – either my own or someone else’s. The truth is, the last few days have been unnerving. Not that I’ve been in any great discomfort as I am pain free, but because Rupert’s impact on people…

  • “THE TROUBLE IS YOU THINK YOU HAVE TIME” Buddha.

    Google is an amazing tool for gathering information some of which can be life affirming and plenty that isn’t. Growing up there were people making good livings travelling through Australia selling sets of Encyclopedia Britannica at the local Agricultural Show. My Mum and Dad were never close to being able to afford those beautiful leather…

  • GOODBYE 2022 – DON’T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU ON THE ARSE ON THE WAY OUT.

    To be honest, prior to July, I thought the last few years had been pretty shitty with Trigeminal Neuralgia putting me in almost a perpetual state of self imposed lockdown and then Covid periodically doing the same for everyone else. Pretty shitty that is, until along came Rupert! Now I understand what a “pretty shitty”…

  • All I Want For Christmas…..

    Dear Santa, I only have one thing on my List for this Christmas. One thing, that is, apart from my usual requests for World Peace, an end to poverty, no more famine, etc etc, and that’s for an end to this debilitating fucking tiredness. Fly safely. Russ The constant exhaustion is getting me down unfortunately…

  • The excitement of Christmas invokes wonderful memories of childhood

    It’s hard to believe, I know, but I was once a kid. A kid who grew up in a distinctly working class family where Christmas was unquestionably my favourite time of year. Dad was a returned Soldier who worked at the Railways Locomotive Shed in Bendigo for 40 odd years. Mum worked at the Kia-Ora…