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What I always forget is that life is such a changeable thing. Those  seemingly insurmountable problems have a habit of morphing into something manageable or occasionally far worse...

We spent the weekend with my Darlin's mum, just recently dx with pancreatic cancer. I guess she has weeks maybe days left. She's never smoked or used drugs or alcohol, had an active and busy life...

Yes, that's right folks. Run out of hair spray? Just reach for the deoderant.This morning I gave my hair a good spray with my underarm deoderant.So....my hair didn't get B.O. today.I think there is a...

Mum is finally settled in the home, albeit with numerous complaints about the staff who 'never do anything for her' and 'dont even know I'm sick'.The DON there went to school with my sister and, in a...

'There's always something' is one of my mother's common sayings. Indeed, there always IS something - with five children and their children....but yesterday was a nightmare.When I arrived at the...

Today I'm going to spend a few hours with my Mum.She is being moved from a low dependency hostel into a nursing home where the care will be more suited to her every failing health. She can no longer...

Yesterday afternoon my darlin and I were so tired - I'm been finishing the Christmas shopping ( what a chore - but ya gotta eat) and he'd been doing some cleaning up after the builder - but we...

After many days of indecision (mainly mine) and uncertainty (my ever cautious GP) I finally got a script for steroids and have been on them for 2 days. The relief is tremendous. The horrible numb...

  DONT QUIT WHEN THINGS GO WRONG AS THEY SOMETIMES WILLWHEN THE ROAD YOU'RE TRUDGING SEEMS ALL UP HILLWHEN THE FUNDS ARE LOW AND THE DEBTS ARE HIGHAND YOU WANT TO SMILE BUT YOU HAVE TO SIGH,WHEN...

I'd been doing those time consuming shopping things - you know, getting a script filled (half an hour wait), buying another christmas gift( a great set of water pstols for my nephew but very awkward...

I'm just writing here to see if I can. Yesterday I wrote a shopping list and it looked nothing like my writing.My eyesight is fine but my co-ordination is not.Also my speech is , well,...

Hallelujah, my  boy rang me from home yesterday, safely home from Thailand!Although he wasn't in Bangkok and was flying out of Phuket the news about Thailand was becoming steadily worse.I sent him a...

What sensational weather we're having.Summer is only a few weeks away and the rain has been constant. The garden is growing like mad and the birds, bugs and frogs are very busy.The tanks are almost...

Scattering the ashes was just amazing. After we did it we went for a walk along the beach and saw three whates surfacing quite close to the beach.  Apart from that I have had a crappy week and...

Big challenge today!I've offered to go with a family I recently did a funeral service for to scatter the ashes. That's not the challenge - they want to walk along the beach where their father died...