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My Mum loves special days. Tomorrow we will have an Australia Day breakfast with her. We will take it to her, breakfast in bed style, a choice of damper, golden syrup, porridge, bacon, eggs and fruit. We will remember the times she organised family park bbq breakfasts with thong throwing competitions and games for the grandkids. We will be thankful that we can still enjoy celebrating our beautiful country with her, and wonder why we didn't appreciate those lovingly organised breakfasts of the past more than we did.

It amazes me how much comfort I draw from these pages. Just knowing that I am not alone in this journey is more important to me than the information I also gain. Everybody's experience of cancer is unique but the challenges somehow unite. Cancer invades life, in the same way that its cells invade tissue. It weaves its way around every close relationship. Mum's cancer is now throughout the CSF, and in her most recent hospital visit we were confronted with an admission that placed her in the palliative ward.

So this week found out I will be having chemotherapy and radiotherapy (colon cancer) and no op at this stage which delights me to no end (seriously), after just going through a triple bypass the worse thing I could think of was being back in hospital. I know I am not even probably being realistic about how my upcoming treatments may be but not being told I have no chance or need an op are just fantastic. I just can't wait for it to be done and the pain to be gone and stop the pain killers and just get the heck back on with life.

Hi to all my fellow travellers on this journey called cancer. I did not expect to still be here after being diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer in Sept 2014. But the great surgeons at Nepean hospital and the cancer centre staff have given me a chance at life. The reason for my blog today is the terrible toll that cancer also takes with your loved ones. My partner was only with me for 3 weeks when I was diagnosed. I told her that if it was too much to take on, then let me go and do it myself. She assured me that her love would get us thru the hard times.

Hi to all my fellow travellers on this journey called cancer. I did not expect to still be here after being diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer in Sept 2014. But the great surgeons at Nepean hospital and the cancer centre staff have given me a chance at life. The reason for my blog today is the terrible toll that cancer also takes with your loved ones. My partner was only with me for 3 weeks when I was diagnosed. I told her that if it was too much to take on, then let me go and do it myself. She assured me that her love would get us thru the hard times.

Greetings! I'm going, probably, where many of you have been. I start my first of 37 radiation treatments today for my prostate cancer. After all the pricks, prods, discussions and research it all comes done to a journey that starts at 2pm. Thanks in advance for well wishes. I'll keep you posted. Warmly, George.