And?!?: Saturday Stuff

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Saturday Stuff

This story was on Al Jazeera's news this morning too. Why have they charged the surviving Miners with Murder, when they did not kill their colleagues, but rather the South African Police at the mine that day,killed them? The 16 year old boy of mistaken identity, who was shot in the head (6 OR 7 TIMES?)by police earlier this year, mother does not have any confidence in our police force anymore. She is scared of them. Aren't we all! When you are a small child you get taught that the police are there to be trusted when something bad has occurred. Well bang goes that theory?

The weather in Cape Town from today until Wednesday.

Table Mountain one of the world's 7 natural wonders.

Hi all! How is your first September Saturday? (It falls on the 1st of this September too!?!)

It was a bit rainy earlier this morning but has mostly been a sunny spring day! It is a bit cool today though.

I accidentally found a great made for TV movie on MM2 on Sattelite TV this morning, "The Soccer Nanny".
I do not really like watching movies during the daytime but this one was worth being in pyjamas and watching a movie at 9am!

At the Spar Shop in the Paddocks Shopping Centre, whilst shopping there today, I was asked if I would mind having my picture taken promoting cheese! I do not really like cheese, but the lady promoting it handed me a toothpick with a piece of cheese on it while another lady took my photo!?! Brings a new meaning to the phrase "say cheese!?" Hopefully my photo will not end up on the net with the bit of cheese photo shopped out and replaced by a person in the nude. Never let anybody take your photo if you do not know them personally, was the advice on the Real Hustle program.

I must check my blog's email, I haven't done that for months. Believe or not I get a fair amount of mail from peeps who read my blogs! Hopefully I have got no nasty mail, I have only ever had one of those mails! It is mostly mail from blog readers saying that they love my blogs. I even got a nice and friendly email from KLM themselves last time I checked my mail in February? (but was it really them?)

Anyway that is all from moi for today.

Have a wonderful weekend 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