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Friday, September 14, 2012

I am rating my flights this year and will put my rating on this blog,

I doubt wether the service on offer, the personality of the cabin crew or the cr?p aircraft configuration will have improved since my last journey of inspiration but hey I believe in fairness and accurate information so let’s see maybe KLM will have improved since the last 8 flights I have taken with them!

I have quite a few FB friends, will they all be at my funeral?

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Hi all! How is your Friday?

It is a lovely sunny and warm day here in Bloubergstrand today.

What is next door's cat, Romeo, going to do while I am away? He saw the packed suitcases today, so I think he might have an idea that I will soon be going somewhere! Maybe it's the scent on the bags you have used on previous trips but they do say that pets can detect when their humans are going away?!? No need to put him in a cattery thank goodness! I used to walk dog's with my friend and neighbour, Rose, but sadly she died of cancer, so I have not walked dogs since 2008? They are so pleased to be walked shelter dogs or at least that is what I observed. The cats in the cattery always made me want to cry! (what a nerd I am!)

Why is there so much cancer in the world these days? I think cellphones and wi-fi might have something to do with it? The link has never been proven but like Eamon Holmes said on SkyNews a few weeks ago, there will probably be a link found one day!

Both my sisters have wi-fi in their homes in Amsterdam and I always feel a tad bit too hot and sick in their homes! (nothing personal before my upcoming accommodation there gets cancelled!) Central heating maybe? If I get too hot or cold I feel like that too, but that I think is from the Radiation Therapy I received in 1997! It was quite few years ago, but they do say radiation never leaves your body. I used to be able to interfere with a radio if I walked past it! I did receive the maximum amount of radiation therapy allowed on a person. (I think it worked?)

Anyway moving on... I am looking forward to seeing my family again. It's been a few months since I saw my sister Claire(April this year) and my Aunty Margaret (November 18 last year, I remember because it was 3 days before my Birthday), who I am staying with in Scarborough for 10? days. My sister, Helen and my nephews Maxi and Simi 1 year and a month?

Anyway that is all from moi pour ajourdoui. Have a superb day further folks!

SIGNING OFF

Ciao

DAVE

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Qotes I Like

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." - Elanor Roosevelt

"Success isn't about how your lfe looks to others. It's about how it feels to you." - Michelle Obama

"The best way out is always through." - Robert Frost

"Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love." - Brene Brown

"You get in life what you have the courage to ask for." - Oprah Winfrey

"When you talk you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new." - Dalai Lama

"Time is a created thing. To say "I don't have time." is like saying "I don't want to." - Leo Tzu

About me!

My Afrikaans teacher, who was Miss Liebenberg when I was at St. John's College, in the late 90's (1994-end of 1996) and other people I know, have in the past, asked me why I don't have my full story on my blog, as my story is one that would help inspire others facing a similar situation.

So here we go folks- In December 1996 I started getting blinding headaches and became very photo phobic, my pupils were hugely dilated. I never really got headaches before then. We were on holiday at the Sugar Beach Hotel, in Mauritius, when my life changed forever. On our return my situation just kept getting worse and I went temporarily blind from the pressure behind my eyes my tumour caused. Christmas 1996 was absolutely nightmarish for me. I did not know what was going on with my body - I thought I was facing my last days here on earth.

On 15 January 1997 (I can never forget this date), the day school started for that year, I was in Hospital having Brain Surgery to try and remove my tumour. Thank God it was too firmly routed to my brain stem for this to be done. According to my Neuro Surgeon (who will remain Anon.) he tried everything to remove it but it was not possible - I haemoraged and he panicked. Had they been able to get it out my left side would have become my right side in my minds thinking. I distinctively remember waking up from surgery in the operating theatre and puking into my oxygen mask. I lost my speech for several months, my ability to walk (to this day I limp as my left leg is not in sync with the right side of my body), I could not use the toilet for months and was in agony as neither end (a bit graphic) but what the worked as my brain was not correctly sending the signal to my netherlands- so I could not get rid of my body's waste. It was a long and crap year 1997 and trying to survive. I was on a tv programme on SABC1 (I believe, you believe?) in June 1997 and a month later, my mom, dad and me went to Australia. OZ (We flew to Perth on SAA) is a nine hour flight from Johannesburg and a twelve (12) hour flight back to Johannesburg? Strong head winds on the return flight. (one of life's odd stats.?) On our return I started getting rapidly worse again. The Oncology doctor gave me a diagnosis of three weeks to live in December 1997 as there was nothing more he could do for me. - I gave my oncology Doctor Martin Chassen a hug - he started crying. Well I guess only God knows how long you will be around?

I turn 38 on 21 November of this year (2018), I have not seen a doctor for years, I do not take any medication, but only vitamins and I am still here! I have tremendous faith in God. I believe all religions are equal, in the way that the basis of all religions is of a higher power, a god, the way you choose to practice your faith is up to you. I am a Catholic Christian and know 100% that I would not have survived what I did without God, Strangers awesome healing prayers (they prayed for me in churches, mosques and Synagogues my family's parish Priest Father Leithem sent a petition to our Lady of Medjugorje in Croatia and used to bring me aloe vera mixed with Grapa that a parishoner used to make for me. A boy (he's 39 now) from St. John's College, Anthony Spanjaard, told me about these vitamins his mom sold. I took them in a large dosage (16) a day at first to boost my immune system. I prayed like mad and voila.

This I have no answer for and for many years I felt guilty - why did I survive my cancer and many other people do not. Go figure?

DAVE