And?!?: Monday mention

Monday, October 22, 2012

Monday mention

I only read 1 or 2 books on average per year, books are not really my thing! Easier to watch the book when it becomes a movie?

I so prefer my twitter to FB

Two weeks and the US elections will have decided who the new president of the USA is! Go Mitt! My presidential candidate for the next term of office.

Hi all of my daily/weekly/monthly or otherwise blog readers.

It is a delightful, sunny and warm day, here in the Western Cape today. This morning I saw the cold grim morning in London, on Sky News, during a live crossing to their journalist there. Been there, done that (cold and wet European weather) until next time! It is 32 degrees C on Wednesday!!!! (just reported on E news, I was watching the E-news channel in Scarborough one morning, interesting how the world is so localized these days, you can watch a news channel broadcast from South Africa in the north of England! Aye up?

My Aunty Mary phoned from Leeds this morning, to tell us that she got the Happy Birthday Messages we left on her answering machine yesterday. She has been celebrating her birthday for months now. The day after her party at the Village Hotel, in Leeds, we had a celebration at her home in Holt Park. (I have always loved her home, it is so neat and compact and there is always a warm and friendly atmosphere there!) She said, "when you are planning events like a big birthday celebration, you have to decide if after it is all over was it worth it, you get a tremendous let down when all the celebrating is over, but it's always better to celebrate occasions than not to." I agree. Anyway it is cold, wet and windy in Leeds today. BRRR

Tomorrow it is off to 248 Blouberg Road for my 3 hour, 10am until 1pm volunteering job. I visited three or four charity shops while I was in the UK, there are so many of them in England. Our shop at 248 is on a par with the shops I visited, but I do think we need a computer (for sales, it keeps a more accurate account?) and a fitting room (we did have one, but we had to let it go, as we have just too many shoplifters if there is a fitting room! Why? Somebody once said to me, "but it is a charity shop, so why do people take goods without paying for them?" Maybe they think charity means mahala (free)?

Well that is all the pearls of widom from me for today. Have a super day further folks!

Signing off for alifenotlikeyours, myamazingjournee and dave-anotherblog for this afternoon.

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