It's Late

I write to you from Westmead hospital at 3:30am while I am waiting for Judy to return from having more fluid drained from around her heart. Now that I have told you the end of the story I will try to connect from when Judy last wrote.

Basically not much has happened for Judy since she wrote late last week other than spending time in bed feeling shit. She has been very lethagic, hardly eaten anything because she feels so nauseous and is still suffering from stomach cramps etc, etc. While we were waiting for her to get better based on the test results from last Wednesday it didn't come and then got to the point that by Sunday she was looking fairly ordinary to the point where she looked as white as a ghost. Come Monday I knew we had to do something but I wasn't sure what so we made sure the community nurse came for a visit. Two nurses turned up this afternoon and knew all was not well as soon as they saw Judy, the end result was that an ambulance was called to bring her to Westmead where she had to go through emergency. The call for the amnulance was made around 4:15pm and she didn't get a bed in emergency until 10:30pm but atleast the wait was worthwhile as they have been able to find an answer as to why Judy has been feeling so crap. I can only hope the procedure is better than last time.

The other big items happening in our life at the moment was Matt starting big school today for which it was extremely disapointing that Judy was not able to go based on how she was feeling. She was at least able to help him get dressed as he was very excited until I said we had to go. I headed off with him and can't imagine how he felt as I had butterflys in my stomach as we arrived at the school, then I found out as the first of the tears started. I took him in and was able to stay while he settled in and while some more tears flowed he was a brave boy and made his dad very proud. I went back to pick him up at 2:30pm and he survived the day and was happy to go back the next day I just have to make sure I am home in time. He also surprised me by not losing any of his school gear.

Now the next big item is moving which is fast approaching with just over a week until we move. I got to do a bit more packing on the weekend due to some help from Di and Alex over the road looking after Hamish but I must admit I feel I am still behind schedule but we do have one more weekend. I will keep you posted as we may need to call in resources on the Monday and Tuesday next week if I haven't got it all done so feel free to put up your hands.

I would also like to take this opportunity to welcome a couple of new additions to the family, firstly Joylynn has joined us last Tuesday as our new Au Pair replacing Melissa who left before the Australia Day weekend. I would like to say welcome to Joy as she settles in and also thank Melissa hugely for her contribution over the last 4 months as she took a number of worries off our mind during a very difficult time. The other new addition is the arrival of a 16 week old black labrador puppy and while some of you may find it hard to believe we have added more complications to our lives others will know that once Judy gets an idea in her head their is no stopping her. It only follows that no wonder this cancer beast doesn't stand a chance.

I better go as I am running out of battery so sorry for the lack of a spell check or whether what I have written makes any sense at this time of the morning.

By for now and NEVER NEVER NEVER GIVE UP.