Back to it...
Thanks for all the bloggers who have been emailing and calling to see if all is ok. Doesn't pay to miss a blog, hey!
Monday...well let's just say that wasn't a good blog day.
It has been a very full on week and it is only Tuesday. I have had a real insight as to why people were so shocked and upset when they learned of my cancer back in May. It can be a pretty tough journey with so many twists and turns, and some things happen fast and without warning.
Cancer would make a fantastic best seller electronic game. It would serve as a thriller game, with every challenge and emotion. Imagine having all the elements, all the different treatments, the doctors and nurses with different personalities and in different hospitals, the friends reactions, what way the boss at work went when they heard...right through to the choice to operate or go natural medicine..and yes, hopefully to a fairytail happy ending, oh...that would be the movie. The game would be to weave your way through all the challenges to earn your own happy ending.
Call me nuts, this is an exciting fundraising opportunity. Given millions of people around the world are impacted by cancer (naturally the idea would work across other complex illnesses), and given games are sold globally online by the likes of iTunes, I think it would be worth looking into. Anyone know a game programmer??
Seriously, I have explained this poorly BUT I imagine a joint venture with Government, Cancer Council and some corporates to create a fascinating electronic game leaving players enthralled yet with a clear understanding of cancer, the decisions that have to be made, the weighing up of relative risks. So much going on, so many twists and turns, (there could be a Black Humour version as well).
Experience all the unexpected, and learn about cancer at the same time. I have learnt almost as much in the past week as in the first 7 weeks. I haven't even scratched the surface.
So you know most about last week, that was the week of THE MOUTH!
This week, this is the week of THE OESOPHAGUS. Where the tumor has been smacked around to kill all the bad cells and taking out plenty of good guys as well.
Chemo and Radiotherapy maximum impact on the patient...for me is right now. 7 to 14 days after the end of treatments.
I am not going to go into a blow-by-blow run down of the past couple of days, except to say I hope that I have bottomed out on this round and we start building tomorrow. The timing promises me some chance of fun and exciting days ahead - we are 11 days after treatment today.
Thanks to Sylvia for yet again carrying me through all this, with Gen and Suz becoming a formidable team for me, and hopefully driving my stuff back at work.
Suz had to go back to Sydney this week to do her Articles to become a grown up lawyer, and I must say, I think she is getting a taste for family business...and her legal credentials will be extremely useful on top of her Law/Commerce Degree. We couldn't afford her normally!! As you may know, we only have her until January (thanks again to AMP CAPITAL), but she is loving it. Hopefully so do the team.
Gen...I have my genuine understudy in all the marketing with Gen, we are loving working up strategy and helping the clients find the right places to find their buyers, cost effectively. Her London experience has taken her Uni studies and the two and half years working with me to a point that she is challenging me!!! Love it. I hope our Hoot&Toot team (who perform all the magic in the press and in the marketing materials, online and the clever IT sales stuff) are enjoying it, and Kussy who runs that area can nowadays play confidently with Gen.
Big team, I have handed over pretty much everything at work, and now in full preparation of getting well in time for the operation early August.
Can't promise a blog everyday guys....Keep smiling...and think about that fundraising idea!
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