Honey, I'm home....
Mood: Mellow
Well here I am after what seems like an eternity. Its bizarre, but I've had more time to myself in the past few months to do what I want than ever before, and yet I've neglected to do those things that I've been looking forward to: sorting the photos, blogging, journaling and catching up with people. The only real ME thing I've done is visit the library! Lots of conflicting feelings, I think that the latent guilt of unemployment and not contributing financially anyway, prevents me from doing those treat things. Silly, eh.
The wonderful fabulous gloroius great news is that the husband had a clear CT scan last week, and the hospital doesn't want to see him for 6 whole months. No chemo, no bloods, no ECGs, no xrays - nothing. While this is cause for yippee and hooray, it is also slightly unnerving to think that nobody's monitoring him either, but I'm sure we'll get used to it. At the last visit to the oncologist I mentioned how surreal this whole thing feels - it's like we've cruised through the whole nightmare slightly anaesthetised or something. By the time we knew it was cancer, it had been removed with half of the bowel, then by the time we knew it had gone into the lymph nodes chemo was just about started, then when chemo started getting really awful it was time to move on to the less awful phase, and so on and so forth. And throughout all of this process the husband still worked 2 weeks out of 3 - half the imported workers there don't turn up that often and they're perfectly healthy! And he wonders why he gets tired????
Quick update:
House finally sold after 12 months on the market. The way our life was though, it would have been disastrous had it sold any earlier. We now live in a little 3 bedroom rental with little being the operative word. Thankfully it has a double garage which is jammed with boxes and furniture which will stay there till we are in the new place. Shifting involved 3 skip bins and 3 bonfires ugggh.
I left one full time job for a part time job then left that for glorious unemployment when the house sold. Haven't found a new one yet (haven't really looked), but have the odd temp pop up now and then.
Eldest son now in the Navy, loving it. We went up to the Passing Out Parade a couple of weeks ago, and a family church service a month or so before that; a lovely blend of traditional military stuff and modern, human everyday things. Wish he would write more often, I miss him and found the first few weeks dreadful - no contact, it was as though he'd died.
On the verge of beginning to build our new house. Exciting!! Have had seemingly endless nitpicking from the Council to get the plans to "go" stage but hopefully the foundations begin this weekend. Hubby and his mate are doing a large part of it (except mate ended up on crutches this week and is now waiting for knee surgery).
Rain! Endless bloody rain, nuff said.
So, there you have it for now. See, once I start I can't shut up. There's a whole lot of stuff that I should offload for my own good but that might have to be channelled into other places.
