Lindsay thanks I read your replies to other people’s post,they are full of wisdom, compassion empathy and hope,I am positive,your wife Maria would be a very proud of you, if she was here.I’m sure your comforting words are much appreciated in times of need for others touched by Cancer.   I have been through Tumut,many years ago on the way to Adaminaby fishing,Tumut looked a lovely place.When  I get to sit on the banks of the river,I shall think of you and your words,we love camping in the remote Wonnangatta Valley, Vic beside the river.and other mountain hideaways.If we seen a handful of people in  two weeks it was a crowd in the early days.   Eventually my wife and my ashes will be spread together in our beloved high country,but not too soon I hope😀 Lindsay you also take care with your illness and the virus. Stay safe. ... View more

Lindsay thanks I read your replies to other people’s post,they are full of wisdom, compassion empathy and hope,I am positive,your wife Maria would be a very proud of you, if she was here.I’m sure your comforting words are much appreciated in times of need for others touched by Cancer.   I have been through Tumut,many years ago on the way to Adaminaby fishing,Tumut looked a lovely place.When  I get to sit on the banks of the river,I shall think of you and your words,we love camping in the remote Wonnangatta Valley, Vic beside the river.and other mountain hideaways.If we seen a handful of people in  two weeks it was a crowd in the early days.   Eventually my wife and my ashes will be spread together in our beloved high country,but not too soon I hope😀 ... View more

I think at first I hated my Cancer,and the terminal diagnosis that came with it,I was told early in my days by my wife’s Doctor,that everyone is going to die ,some sooner ,some later, I just happened to be in the sooner category,that didn’t happen but there was a couple of false alarms and close calls along the way,unfortunately the Doc passed away before me he is a definite loss to the medical profession.I stopped thinking about death and got along with living,   I used to backpack the high country on my own in the mountains,free as an eagle,I can’t do that now ,the toll of my Whipple surgery other medical issues ,and natural progression of age stopped that ,but I have not lost my passion of the wild mountains,raging rivers,and the cold weather,we still go away camping when our health allows to these areas,I might have a small wander around smelling the trees,listening to the wildlife taking in nature’s darkness, reenergising ,if my grandchildren are there it makes the experience even better,I think Cancer has made me more compassionate to others suffering and hopefully a better person, others can judge me on that .You have to get positives from every situation I have spent more time with my family seen how extra nurturing my wife is.We were retiring to the mountain country years ago but a neurologist told me to think about it with my spinal condition I have been hospitalised,and told after a big bleed I wouldn’t walk out of hospital,I have a cavernous haemangioma in the middle of my spinal cord that bleeds cutting off signal to my legs, I should be paralysed but Ocassionly the medicos get it wrong,I listened and we didn’t move . I actually have won the equivalent of tattslotto for health as I am still moving and alive.   Where there is life there is hope. ... View more

Oh dear I hope for an improvement in your wife’s health. Thanks for update sch . ... View more

sch so sorry to read that your wife has tested positive,fingers crossed as well that she recovers quickly and that you don’t test positive at some time. ... View more

Sarah  Lindsay is Right you are number one priority in the house but you are also a Mum and wife,Mums usually put everyone else before themselves no matter what the circumstances,but now you and your health is the priority,When I was seriously ill  a hug used to pick me up,but your immune system  situation is different so I’m sorry can’t help with that one !we always express our love for each other in our family we still do verbally and with a hug, ... View more

Thanks Lindsay. ... View more

I received a text from the hospital yesterday confirming a time for a phone consultation week after next with the surgeon, concerning a possible reoccurrence and the size of incisional hernia,as it is a fortnight away I believe there is no reoccurrence or I would have been seen sooner.   To me no news is good news. ... View more

Hi Lindsay Sorry it’s not the report  you wanted to get but as you say less trips to Sydney the better for obvious reasons. ... View more

I have just had a phone call from the outpatient clinic,the doctors have canceled all appointments tomorrow,they don’t want people coming in,I will receive a text setting up a phone consult with my Surgeon. Sometime in the future,bugga.   But that is the new world. ... View more